Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |
| 2 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
| 3 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 4 | Althusser suggests that although Marxist history is defined as a theory of the modes of production , Marx did not give us any theory of how the transition was effected from one mode of production to another , nor of how each mode of production was constituted . |
| 5 | Father cared , but he did not give us enough time and attention . |
| 6 | Getting Nails into the team did not make him any nicer . |
| 7 | But it did not make him more in charity with Chips Salter . |
| 8 | But that did not make it any easier to break the news . |
| 9 | The news of the morning broadcast had brought them all to this place , anticipating something like what they were now hearing , which did not make it any better . |
| 10 | I did not watch him all the way but looked for another target . |
| 11 | She did not answer him this time , but stared back at him almost insolently , only a slight moistening of her lips betraying her nervousness . |
| 12 | Their campaign , while never likely to overhaul the incumbent , was affected by the withdrawal of Richard Denton-White — the new candidate was only chosen in February and this , the party felt , did not leave her enough time to build up a significant level of ‘ voter-familiarity ’ . |
| 13 | She did not tell me that . |
| 14 | He was , however , extremely discreet and did not tell us any results of the Cabinet soundings in detail . |
| 15 | And we have it on the authority of those sitting near her that she did not drink it that evening . ’ |
| 16 | The point , though Hurd did not put it this way , is that Labour 's amendment 27 , seeking to scupper Major 's triumph in excluding Britain from the social chapter , was a complete red herring . |
| 17 | Cavalry did not have it all their own way . |
| 18 | But over that weekend , diesels did not have it all to themselves as the unique two coach Battery Electric Multiple Unit was diagrammed for three return trips . |
| 19 | However , the entertainers did not have it all their own way , as preachers such as Donald Soper , Will Sangster and Leslie Weatherhead also spoke there . |
| 20 | In fact he did not ask us any questions at all , but read aloud from Shakespeare , waving his arms dramatically and enjoying the sound of his own voice . |
| 21 | Cathy did not cause me any trouble at first . |
| 22 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 23 | In Red Rhino 's terms , it was a fantastically expensive record to make but Korda Marshall at RCA did not see it that way . |
| 24 | A further disincentive — although Mr Lawrence did not see it that way — was that the Prudential had never previously had a finance director , let alone strict internal financial controls . |
| 25 | Henry James did not see it that way . |
| 26 | In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time . |
| 27 | The Princess did not help us this year . |
| 28 | She realised that even the keepers of the secrets did not know them all . |
| 29 | To Dinah 's relief Paul did not touch her this time , but turned over and was soon asleep ; he had to be early at work in the morning . |
| 30 | ‘ If you did n't fritter it all away with your high-living friends up in London you would n't need to make it ‘ grow ’ . |