Example sentences of "who did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Carr produced the most sustained attack on the assumptions of Idealism , it was Hans Morgenthau who did most to popularize the new approach of Realism . |
| 2 | It was probably Thomas William Coke ( later the Earl of Leicester ) of Holkham Hall , Norfolk , on the other side of England , who did most to introduce the Devon elsewhere . |
| 3 | Close to the Inchnadamph Hotel , a monument commemorates the work of the two geologists who did most to unravel the secrets of these rock movements : Ben Peach and John Horne , colleagues of Archibald Geikie of the Geological Survey in Scotland in 1907 . |
| 4 | With Mel Blyth alongside and John Jackson in goal , John was part of the triumvirate who did most to keep us in Division one for four seasons . |
| 5 | Instead it was Andy Roxburgh 's new kid on the block , Eoin Jess , who did most to bring the young supporters out of their seats . |
| 6 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 7 | Of those who did eventually end up in court , the acquittal rate by March 1985 was 24 per cent ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 8 | A male who did somehow manage to copulate with hundreds of females would be at an enormous advantage compared with a male who only copulated with one or two females . |
| 9 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 10 | If there was a Libyan involved , the police proceedings were accompanied by self-help action , although the influx of foreigners had created a number of potential offenders and victims who did not fit into the system . |
| 11 | The latter policy could also entail a drastic withdrawal of royal favour from those who did not fit into Edward 's plans . |
| 12 | The latter policy could also entail a drastic withdrawal of royal favour from those who did not fit into Edward 's plans . |
| 13 | The more highly organised and consciously efficient foreign offices became , the less scope there was for the individual who did not fit easily into these bigger and more complex machines . |
| 14 | And , in fact , the characteristic ‘ bourgeois ’ or member of the middle class in our period included few people who did not fit into one or other of these pigeon-holes . |
| 15 | He and Jenny were sufficient for each other ; they did not want a third person , especially a person whose tastes were so dissimilar and who did not fit in with their lives or their friends . |
| 16 | How could one not admire a woman so clear as to her needs that she did not care whose flesh she carved her way through , who did not care whose sleep she shattered in the small hours of the dawn ? |
| 17 | She saw women , old gnarled Italian housewives , who did not care about popularity , who were quite composed in the face of sour looks , getting fruit and vegetables and even meat at a quarter the price paid by her affable husband and she resolved to become one of these women . |
| 18 | A man who did not care about the consequences of his actions . |
| 19 | He was finding he resented people who did not care for Wyvis Hall as much as he did . |
| 20 | Another , who did not pass by on the hour , might think , not of Death , but of the astrolabe showing the positions of the planets . |
| 21 | In one study , cigar smokers who had taken up cigars after stopping cigarettes and smoked at least five cigars a day had a risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction about four times as high as that among ex-cigarette smokers who did not smoke cigars . |
| 22 | Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day . |
| 23 | We asked the women the average number of cigarettes they smoked a day and asked those who did not smoke whether they had ever smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day . |
| 24 | Of the 63 women who did not smoke , 23 women had smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day at some time . |
| 25 | Patients who refused to participate , who did not answer the letters or telephone calls , or who were adopted or unable to give information about bowel disease in their relatives were not included in the segregation analysis , nor were children younger than 8 years of age . |
| 26 | When power was increased he was concerned for the skipper on board the yacht , who did not answer his radio , and indeed the safety of the yacht itself . |
| 27 | So the majority wore clerical collars and the ones who did not knew what they were doing . |
| 28 | Then Monica , in apparently wanting the ITF to change the Olympic eligibility rules to suit top players who did not want to qualify by playing in the Federation Cup , said ‘ without Gabriela , Martina or I in the Olympics , they would n't really be the Olympics and Steffi could win the gold medal playing left-handed . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Both races hope for prosperity , prosperity means expansion , expansion means immigration , immigration means British ’ ; the syllogism was false , in logic and experience , but it was good enough for those who did not want to go where logic and experience pointed . |
| 30 | They visited the homes of the women , talked to husbands , fathers and fathers-in-law who did not want them to take part in any struggle , and they urged the women themselves to assert themselves . |