Example sentences of "they did [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not do so . |
| 2 | They had no need to speak and they did not do so . |
| 3 | Zuwaya said they should not watch television together ; sons should not smoke in their father 's presence , nor try to wheedle or coax money from them ; and mostly they did not do those things . |
| 4 | But they did not do much more than that . |
| 5 | But they have told me they did not do it , ’ Mr Hermens added . |
| 6 | This they did not do . |
| 7 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 8 | Until Wednesday , the worst manifestation of that was warning young Members that they would not get promoted if they did not do what they were told . |
| 9 | Even if they did not do anything . |
| 10 | Kellmer Pringle , for example , attacks the idea ( presumed still commonly held ) that children are comparable with other possessions over whom parents may exercise exclusive rights ; Tizard objects to the way in which parents were able to prevent others from providing permanent care for their children , although they did not do so themselves . |
| 11 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 12 | Not only is there no evidence that the inhabitants of Jerusalem did the same , but the petition of the Samaritans clearly implies that they did not do so . |
| 13 | Although Attlee and Greenwood were ready to accept the invitation , they did not do so at once but made sure that both the National Executive and the annual Conference , which were conveniently meeting at the same time , it being the Whit weekend , were fully consulted and in agreement with their acceptance of office . |
| 14 | This they did not do and they should have ascertained by sticking writing into the National Westminster Bank to confirm that sufficient funds were available for the completion of the proposed transaction and that the terms upon which this finance was to be made available had been agreed . |
| 15 | And stated that if they did not do so , we would an injunction to stop the proposals going through . |
| 16 | If the burden was placed on the parents to prove they did not do the deed , their failure to convince the jury of this would result in their conviction . |
| 17 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 18 | They did n't do many subjects together and were only in the same group for French and history . |
| 19 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 20 | There are times when mistakes are made in school and things go wrong : children blamed for things they did n't do , events may be cancelled at short notice , cardigans and coats lost or , even worse , end up in the toilet bowl . |
| 21 | They probably did n't attend , but they did n't do anything to stop it . |
| 22 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 23 | I have no doubt there are many things you wish they did n't do , or were not , but there must be some good points ! |
| 24 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
| 25 | They did n't do nice things like that . |
| 26 | ‘ They have very mixed feelings really — anger because they have been put away for something they did n't do , and defiance to see justice done . ’ |
| 27 | They did n't do any steering , as far as Masklin could see . |
| 28 | Laing had worked some fiddle and had n't minded being caught ; he said he 'd proved that the state only acknowledged the work of mothers when they did n't do it … |
| 29 | Well I think my parents did the best they could but the pressures that were on them they , they did n't do a very good job ! |
| 30 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |