Example sentences of "did [adv] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She snatched at the handle and as she did so the parcel slipped . |
| 2 | She stood there beside him , acknowledging the marvellous presence of the terns , and as she did so the thought came to her that striped shirt , and pink tie , and Julia of the leather skirt , presumably passed them by five days a week without knowing that they did so . |
| 3 | As it did so the door swung open . |
| 4 | The World Championships crept gradually nearer , and as they did so the relay running order began to get to me . |
| 5 | As he did so the boy stirred and struggled briefly then relaxed . |
| 6 | As he did so the chairman called out ‘ Five minutes , please ! ’ |
| 7 | The plaintiff objected to paying the tolls , and on the first occasion when he did so the owner seized his goods . |
| 8 | As the DTI had failed to act when it had known of irregularities within the firm , did not the Government have a moral obligation towards the dupes ? |
| 9 | The dealers and auctioneers are clearly dishonest men , for did not the newspapers contain , almost daily , stories of this or that forgotten family possession , found in an attic or lumber room or trunk , and fetching colossal sums ? |
| 10 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 11 | Did not the road lead uphill all the way to Olympus ? |
| 12 | Did not the remarks made yesterday by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer reinforce that policy ? |
| 13 | Did not the patients charter cost £2 million to publicise and launch and was it not £2 million worth of Conservative propaganda ? |
| 14 | Or did just the pillows have the |
| 15 | Of course , I looked more confident than earlier in the Test , but then everyone did once the ball had stopped turning a yard . |
| 16 | ‘ Did n't the company help at all ? ’ |
| 17 | And did n't , did n't the union question why they were taking money ? |
| 18 | Did n't the union question why they ? |
| 19 | ‘ Probably we did n't realise it would be a problem until a few days before , but why did n't the managers come to us and ask about it ? |
| 20 | If it was good enough , why did n't the Government restart aid ? |
| 21 | Did n't the man care about that possibility ? |
| 22 | Did n't the man know ? |
| 23 | Paul was singing to himself and asking questions of the type children tend to , such as why were n't the birds all blown away during the storm , and why did n't the sea fill up with water with the stream going so hard ? |
| 24 | Veronica 's father was Lord Somebody-or-other , she reminded herself , and did n't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs ? |
| 25 | In fact , ’ Corbett now tried to clear the doubts in his own mind , ‘ why did n't the Queen send out a search-party for her husband ? |
| 26 | Why did n't the kidnappers try to obtain the document earlier ? |
| 27 | And why did n't the policeman want him to see the suite ? |
| 28 | In one recorded instance , the agent approached a farmer ( and Party member ) with the question : ‘ Well then , did n't the Führer speak well ? ’ , and received the reply : ‘ Things must be tough in the east . ’ |
| 29 | Why did n't the rest come ? |
| 30 | Did n't the girls act and dance well ? |