Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite moments of despondency , de Gaulle himself certainly did not give up hope . |
| 2 | Matters , however , did not rest where Papinian left them . |
| 3 | Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice . |
| 4 | ( Elinor did not drink either tea or coffee and only the occasional glass of mint tea . |
| 5 | The previous section identified the axes of the McKinsey-GE matrix , but did not explain how attractiveness or competitive strengths could be classified as high , medium or low . |
| 6 | Such backsliding was not necessarily incompatible with the general movement of mankind : evolution did not rule out devolution . |
| 7 | She obviously would not have travelled such a huge distance if she did not hold out hope for the relationship , and Charity wanted to respect that . |
| 8 | The control subjects did not receive either placebo or loperamide oxide tablets but underwent an identical series of measurements on one occasion . |
| 9 | During the study period 12 controls and two prompted patients did not receive either hospital outpatient eye examination or optometry screening ( p=0.008 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Decided to give up vomiting ; binged three times 2–3 Noticed that when stressed by children she turned to food and binged 4–5 Binged only once each week 6–7 Returned home and observed how she wanted to please her parents 8–9 On holiday , eating three meals a day — discovered she did not put on weight . |
| 11 | Instead , a new grouping of critics , working under the influence of theorists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault , came to realise that literary texts did not mark out expression which could somehow break free of the culture which produced them . |
| 12 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |
| 13 | Melanie did not know how Finn washed , when he washed , if he ever washed ; but Francie would sometimes fill an oval tin bath from kettles and saucepans boiled on the stove and sit impassively in it in the kitchen behind a locked door . |
| 14 | Frank Grimwood did not worry about time . |
| 15 | I mean , you can say for example that the Government did n't bring in registration , licensing of food premises , only brought in a register . |
| 16 | and I said would you integrate so it did n't stand out sort of too obviously four X cubed minus X times X squared . |
| 17 | Well at that time you did n't leave out money so you just left a couple of tokens tokens |
| 18 | I , I did n't want mentally handicap I wanted mentally sick like schizophrenic |
| 19 | With a little group of people who did n't give up hope . |
| 20 | That was it , those particular shopkeepers er did n't did n't start up business again . |
| 21 | did n't get much thought then like |
| 22 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 23 | I wanted to suggest it to Sarah but I did n't know how Mam would feel about it . |
| 24 | Well they said they 've never known that to happen , cos I had some tickets ooh I said I did n't win then sister ? |
| 25 | Chairman Mao and his little red book actually sort of advocated table tennis because it did n't take up paddy fields ; it was very economical ; you can stick 10 tables in a canteen , so it was very much conducive to the communist way of life and of course , China … |
| 26 | FEARFUL that an eco-collection could be tarnished with a ‘ muesli bar ’ image , she purposefully chose ‘ to show an avant-garde range that did n't look too eco because the consumer is not ready to do something for the environment at the expense of looking good ’ . |