Example sentences of "did [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was presumably his stage debut , because although his teacher Marjorie Sturman started the Johannesburg Festival Ballet Society about that time , it did not give its first public performance until the following year , when he was already in Cape Town and unable to get away . |
| 2 | ‘ I stopped my eight- and ten-year-olds from watching Grange Hill , ’ she says , ‘ because it covered abortion and , however well it was done , I did not want their first experience of it to be through television . ’ |
| 3 | She did not repeat her last statement but she said , ‘ Go … go away , please . |
| 4 | Bush and Gorbachev did not hold their first summit until December 1989 in Malta . |
| 5 | The party Statutes of FET y de las JONS were published on 4 August , but the principal consultative organism , the National Council , was not created until October of that year and did not hold its first meeting until December . |
| 6 | He was relieved to feel that he would not be alone with Eleanor and was sure that he would be able , casually and quietly , to say something about Liza in the course of the evening — that is , if Eleanor did not say something first . |
| 7 | Noguchi did not get his first retrospective exhibition until he was in his sixties . |
| 8 | Ruth did not enjoy her first night on board . |
| 9 | I did not catch his last words ; perhaps he said , ‘ … of others ’ . |
| 10 | Emma still did not know her first name . |
| 11 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 12 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 13 | You did n't watch it last night . |
| 14 | I did n't do it last week . |
| 15 | They did n't do it last weekend . |
| 16 | He has run 165 marathons , 76 half-marathons , nine 61-milers , 13 30-milers and 13 25-milers — and he did n't do his first marathon until shortly before his 60th birthday . |
| 17 | But she did n't want to talk about Hugh , did n't want his third presence intruding here , on her day with Fen . |
| 18 | Your statement did n't show our last payment . |
| 19 | Though I did n't cover it last month , the triplet subdivision can apply to ballads . |
| 20 | Two people in the group did n't fancy their first at all . |
| 21 | I promised to ring him , if he did n't ring me first , reassured her again that everything was fine and that she did n't need to drive over to look after me . |
| 22 | I rang my mum , because she did n't ring me last night , |
| 23 | There were few signposts and the rough roads had waterfilled potholes deep enough to drown a man — if the footpads did n't get him first . |
| 24 | The next time you try and I 've been here before , and I did n't get it last time . |
| 25 | Did n't ask you first ? |
| 26 | But I did n't sell my first painting you know until 1975 . |
| 27 | Crawford later recalled , ‘ I did n't enjoy my last three years at school . |
| 28 | I did n't like it first , when I bought it I thought it was a bit crap |
| 29 | Did n't like it first time . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't like his second wife either . |