Example sentences of "did [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked Donald a great deal ; and the prospect of the man 's imminent death did nothing to dispel this feeling , since he was the person directly responsible for this state of affairs . |
| 2 | The ensuing struggle to detach the Ukraine from Poland and bring it under Russian rule did nothing to weaken Western influence . |
| 3 | At first neither Ceauşescu 's guards and officials nor the older professional participants in the display wanted to let the young woman take part , but she did nothing to banish any assumption that her surname indicated a relationship with the First Lady . |
| 4 | Studies carried out in Hull , did nothing to confirm this prediction . |
| 5 | The capital development of the broadcasting services during this five-year period improved the ability of radio to reach remote parts of the country and beyond but did nothing to improve two-way linkages between Dar es Salaam and the regions and districts . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , he decided to side with Detroit on the day , so that he might be as comfortably partisan as usual , but he did so among a group of Pittsburgh supporters , whom he referred to throughout the same as Pitts-buggers , which did nothing to improve inter-City relations . |
| 7 | It did nothing to provide better child care for women wishing to return to work . |
| 8 | The truce of Espléchin in September did nothing to quieten importunate creditors , and on 30 November , having sent a bitter denunciation of Archbishop Stratford to the pope , Edward frustrated , desperate and furious — set out for England to wreak revenge and secure funds . |
| 9 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 10 | Mr Fallon said this did nothing to help those people with mobility difficulties who wanted to park in the afternoon . |
| 11 | Soviet behaviour after Hitler 's defeat ( 1945 ) did nothing to change liberal opinion . |
| 12 | Early educational reforms , designed to promote Gaelic language and culture , did nothing to expand scientific training while the notion of ‘ scientific progress ’ had little appeal to the leaders of a self-consciously Catholic culture . |
| 13 | The Pope 's visit to Central America in March 1983 did nothing to alter this situation . |
| 14 | What I felt consciously was anxiety , accompanied by shame , and at school the procedure for dealing with menstruation did nothing to diffuse either emotion . |
| 15 | What did a boy still at university , with no prospects yet of any sort of career , what did someone like that want with a massive country house ? |
| 16 | Did I do thirteen C on which one ? |
| 17 | ‘ What did I tell that Cotton bloke ? ’ |
| 18 | Did I leave any splashes on the bench ? |
| 19 | Did I make any deals , brush up any publishing contacts ? |
| 20 | But when and how did I make this escape ? |
| 21 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 22 | Here I must admit to a certain prejudice , in that much as I admired Chapman 's engineering brilliance — it was intuitive , radical , lateral-thinking and extremely sharp — I did not share , then or now , the belief that Colin was a constructor in the class of Enzo Ferrari , nor did I feel any faith in him as a man or a leader of men . |
| 23 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 24 | What did I call that person who comes |
| 25 | Did I take that picture ? |
| 26 | Strangely enough , at no time did I have real doubts that I would be elected , and this determined my public attitude during the three successive ballots that were necessary . |
| 27 | did I have another conversation , Jess and Lucy so I must have had another conversation with you last night then Jess |
| 28 | When I wrote out the application form and it said did I have any experience , I just adapted it . |
| 29 | ‘ Did I have any problems with Cantona ? |
| 30 | ‘ It never did , Fernando ; not for one second did I have any doubts of how deeply I felt for you , only doubts of how deeply you had felt for me . |