Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Squadron certainly did keep up the pressure and achieved the desired result , mining and ambushing merrily . |
| 2 | Got through quite a bit yesterday did n't we ? |
| 3 | They left it a bit late did n't they |
| 4 | Give it away a bit really did n't he ? |
| 5 | Cos we had Linekars , course they 've gone out of business , but when he came , when the boss came to this one he reckoned one of these was a bit out did n't he ? |
| 6 | And you said you was feeling a bit better did n't you ? |
| 7 | or about five minutes earlier on the motorway and they drove over a part of the barrier , and they got a blow out did n't they ? |
| 8 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 9 | It featured no film material , no exterior shooting and nothing whatsoever in the way of visual effects — such a department just did not exist in 1949 . |
| 10 | Went in a car in did you ? |
| 11 | Thus the time taken to respond to a question like Did the dog that the bus hit die ? did not increase when the relative pronoun was removed ( Did the dog the bus hit die ? ) . |
| 12 | A girl really did break her neck on those stairs . ’ |
| 13 | Similarly , to revert to the question of the 11+ , the fact that girls as a group consistently did better than boys did not result in more grammar school places for girls . |
| 14 | Just because she had to leave a meeting suddenly did not mean she would relinquish her authority . |
| 15 | They 'd had a match though did n't it ? |
| 16 | a while ago did n't they ? |
| 17 | a day off did n't he ? |
| 18 | Like a third take away a quarter how did you do it ? |
| 19 | Well we stayed , we well almost a week there did n't we ? |
| 20 | The annual replacement of the fuel rods a month later did not go too well either . |
| 21 | Well I remember when we first met we wanted to go and do a dissertation together did n't we ? |
| 22 | Mercifully , a colleague upstairs did . |
| 23 | Mary 's natural tendency to fly into a temper probably did not increase their chances very much . |
| 24 | Did you a favour there did n't she Geoff ? |
| 25 | And poems in a novel simply did n't work ; they 'd been crap poems anyway . |
| 26 | ‘ A jury already did that . |
| 27 | And er erm Eileen said then she said we never had a warning then did we ? |
| 28 | Went down for a walk today did n't we ? |
| 29 | Did n't seem in much of a hurry though did it ? |
| 30 | No but you did n't have a tan though did you ? |