Example sentences of "do they [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 You said about the hens making a lot , how did how did they work that as an industry with the eggs and things how did they collect and work ?
2 Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs .
3 ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings .
4 Were people putting their money on England , did they reckon that they were going to survive that last onslaught ?
5 The person they sought had disappeared into thin air ; it was only then did they puzzle and wonder if the dusk had conned them into imagining that they could be mistaken .
6 Did they feel that women could n't be militant ?
7 Erm , also inclination of head towards the listener and erm erm , how did they feel that they 'd finished the erm , speaker 's intonation and a drop in volume of voice towards the end , and erm , also you 've got quite a full tags .
8 … but how did they feel when the covers came off ?
9 What mistake did they make as they sailed away ?
10 Why did they come on raids and why did they burn and steal ?
11 But did they realise that in trying to staunch the bleeding heart , they had administered a tourniquet to the artery of free will ?
12 But how long after did they realise that they were saving the environment by not having to dump the waste , and by using Organic Matter to help plant-life grow , rather than synthetic chemicals ?
13 Turkey , plum pudding , Stilton … typical traditional fare , but from where did they originate and how did the custom for eating them at Christmas arise ?
14 Little did they think that it would still be going , if only just , well over 100 years later .
15 Nor did they think that Sri Lankans prosecuted a larger than normal proportion of true criminal cases because of their faith in the effectiveness of British justice .
16 So why did they think that they had the er means to do it in nineteen forty seven ?
17 And did they reflect that they , who had not merely mastered but discovered the much more difficult law , who had got their economics so impregnably right , would be seen to stand shining brightest of all in the very front rank ?
18 Er what , what , what time did they start and finish , did the blues parties ?
19 What did they do when they got there ?
20 You said they have n't been round round do they do they tend to keep away from here so how did they react when you actually first
21 It the method you used in those days did tha did they change as the years went on or , or
22 Which way did they go when they left ? ’
23 Again , did they notice or was it that this is how they know things are ?
24 Did they try and drag you up the farm yesterday ?
25 The National Industrial Relations Court found that at no stage were the employees asked if they were prepared to move to Fulham and at no stage did they indicate that they were prepared to move .
26 Whom did they annoy and to whom was their possible presence a political danger ?
27 I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference .
28 Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ?
29 You said about the hens making a lot , how did how did they work that as an industry with the eggs and things how did they collect and work ?
30 Did they need but one term to teach perfection , I wonder ?
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