Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I think they did so dull and boring I think I 've got ta fart ! |
| 2 | Undoubtedly , this reorganization of the Northumbrian Church pleased Theodore , who secured the establishment o additional bishoprics north of the Humber , and Ecgfrith , who was not only rid of a bishop whom he did not want but able also to secure the appointment of men whom he personally favoured , men generally prepared to deal sensitively with the legacy of the Scottish mission in a post-Whitby era . |
| 3 | For the moment , he did not care if some vehicle ran him over . |
| 4 | When the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers was expressed in relation to the size of the total labour force in the establishment , it did not appear that larger establishments were more likely to make use of temporary workers than smaller ones [ see Table 3.4 ] . |
| 5 | It did not appear that this was a major problem . |
| 6 | Scotland , on the other hand , open the World Cup against Costa Rica in Genoa — shades of Dortmund in 1974 when they sauntered to a 2-0 win over Zaire and did not realise that this was the game to build up a healthy balance of goals . |
| 7 | That is , if the prosecutor proves that the words or material were in fact threatening , abusive or insulting , and if the defendant wishes to assert that he did not realise that this was so , the onus is upon him to raise the issue . |
| 8 | Jack did not realise that vertical lines are always straight up and down even when you are standing on a hillside . |
| 9 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 10 | But 1951 was also the year in which the climax had not happened because the Chinese did not arrive and all the plans for increasing US assistance , in which this was a contingent but major factor , would in the end go to help the French reinforce their position in Indo-China or , at most , help them to decide the time when they might depart . |
| 11 | But Sullivan did not think that such a grand welcome would now be appropriate . |
| 12 | When he looked back later in life he did not think that this dark night was caused by what happened on the road at Godmanchester . |
| 13 | They did not think that these qualities could be found in a job for college leavers — Well perhaps interest and challenge , but not being in charge . ’ |
| 14 | Part A goes ninety one to ninety six , part B ninety six to two thousand and six , sites adjacent to the urban area in the Greater York study er which were acceptable for development because corporately the districts and the county did not think that those sites discharged a greenbelt function as the greenbelt local plan was progressed those sites were excluded from the greenbelt erm and yes , we did identify a number of sites which did not conflict with greenbelt objectives erm on the urban edge . |
| 15 | Significantly , the Commission did not suggest that such longer periods of detention could ever be justified by the desire to continue questioning or by the need further to interrogate . |
| 16 | I did not eat that many thank you very much ! |
| 17 | ( Just as , in the case of my own work , I did not anticipate that some teachers would begin every lesson with ‘ What do you want to do a play about ? ’ . |
| 18 | Ivica Racan , a ( Croatian ) member of the party presidium , said that this meant affirming the freedom of a citizen 's political association , keeping self-management strategic to socialist development , but did not mean that political pluralism " should be reduced simply to the question of a multiparty system , because this is only one of the possible forms of political pluralism " . |
| 19 | It should be noted that , while the budgets and weight of food items were calculated per prisoner , this did not mean that each inmate was given an individually weighed portion : the uncooked food was simply weighed in bulk on leaving the stores for the kitchen . |
| 20 | Marriages might of necessity be in the first place a business agreement — an exchange of goods and services — but this did not mean that deep feelings did not enter it . |
| 21 | Now he could only hope that the heavy crop of elderberries , which heralded the end of summer , did not mean that all the leaves had fallen . |
| 22 | Unacceptable standards of behaviour and attainment at Tyndale did not mean that all schools following an enquiry or discovery approach to learning were similarly failing . |
| 23 | After St George 's , almost all Unionist candidates ran without making promises to support the coalition ; this did not mean that all of them joined the diehard group when elected , but it showed that coalition was no longer seen to be a winning ticket . |
| 24 | However , this did not mean that negative covenants are always irremediable covenants . |
| 25 | This did not mean that this factory produced every single component used in the computers . |
| 26 | This point was made even clearer in a later case involving the Chief Justice , in which he stated that a ‘ breach of the Act or the Code did not mean that any statement made by a defendant after such breach would necessarily by ruled out . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 28 | When , therefore , the Board was entrusted with appeals this did not mean that any particular official should undertake the task , nor was the Board bound to disclose the report any more than minutes made on the paper before a decision was arrived at . |
| 29 | Being together in this way did not mean that either party treated the other with excessive informality but it did mean that teachers knew pupils well . |
| 30 | There would be no point to developing or applying principles of group responsibility if we did not assume that these were connected to judgments about how real people must now act . |