Example sentences of "they did [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | If they did , they were assessable to Hong Kong profits tax but if they did not they escaped assessment . |
2 | This belief , regardless of whether it was justified or not , both stopped leaders acting contrary to public opinion and persuaded citizens to accept the legitimacy of laws they did not themselves agree with . |
3 | However , they did not themselves participate in the commission of any offence ; nor did they act as ‘ agents provocateurs ’ or incite crime . |
4 | FoE does , however , have sympathy for businesses exposed to liabilities because they have unknowingly become owners of contaminated land that they did not themselves pollute ; as a result , for example , of buying land defiled by a previous owner . |
5 | Many parents and grandparents in the provinces followed ‘ the May-June events ’ on state-run television : their view of what was happening differed from that of the younger generation in Paris and university campuses across the country ; many students followed developments hour by hour on Europe I — if they did not themselves join the demonstrations and mount the barricades . |
6 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
7 | They did n't they played him once . |
8 | So they they did n't they kept to their . |
9 | There was no question about it — people knew who I was and if they did n't they asked and I told them . |
10 | Well it was part of their course I think , I , they did n't they paid the full cost of it , they contributed a bit , but I think Colin stood |
11 | They did n't they did n't take them out of the Joe you know erm |
12 | They did n't they did n't . |
13 | Now the last one they did n't they did n't get in was a majority . |
14 | they did n't he did n't drink he did n't he did n't dig the graves all a in one in one in one day like you know . |
15 | Oh no they did n't I know what we use to call them , left hand and door cork , captain quartermaster . |
16 | As they did so there came out of the mist a car and it must have seen the crows at me for it stopped . |
17 | Well my husband was out o on strike and I 'd erm got two babies , a year and ten months , and I felt that I had to go and get a job and I was desperate so I 'd heard people talking about these things as they did so I thought well I 've got to do something . |
18 | So I mean if the man was going to take it on himself I mean er he used the French letter then when that clinic started up as I would say , the women would go there you see stop that lark because they did n't even they did n't even let , er take very kindly to the French letters some of them did n't you know , the men . |