Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1970 the area was in major decline ; unemployment was high , docks and warehouses either did not have enough business or were closed , derelict land abounded and little redevelopment took place . |
| 2 | Jackie and Hill then did a one-two at the Glen , leaving the championship to be decided in Mexico . |
| 3 | No one any longer seriously believes that Marie and Eleanor actually did preside over such tribunals . |
| 4 | Anyhow , Sonja and Petra never did breakfast . |
| 5 | Yet I am sure that Messrs Noah , Forget and Leconte neither did n't know nor care about that . |
| 6 | And Darwin explicitly did believe , in the inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 7 | It was clearly a spot height — in fact there was a small stone to mark it , but it was almost hidden in rough grass and gorse , and Maggie really did n't want to know how far they had climbed . |
| 8 | But then , as the silence lengthened and fitzAlan still did n't move , curiosity got the better of her . |
| 9 | About 1560 he became a Protestant , as Janequin and Certon never did , and made a four-part setting of the complete Marot-de Beze Psalter in lightly ornamented note-against-note counterpoint with the melodies generally in the highest part ( Paris , 1564 ) . |
| 10 | Progressive landlords still owned a lot of land and redistribution often did n't go to the poorest peasants but to peasants who were members of the Communist Party . |
| 11 | Your kindness and sincerity really did restore my faith in human nature . |
| 12 | ‘ That is , of course , if you were telling the truth and Silvia really did say something about going to Alghero . ’ |
| 13 | This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | But nobody told Mary anything , and Kamala still did not come . |
| 16 | Perhaps the greatest achievements of Haussmann in his transformation of the city were the least visible , for the provision of sewers , gas , and water probably did more to enhance the city 's life than almost anything else . |
| 17 | The conversation had suddenly moved , as conversation between British and Egyptians often did , into a minefield . |
| 18 | And erm , so I said alright then give me some suggestions , because when we moved out of erm Milton Avenue , Diane and Harry immediately did the walls wood in the kitchen , about the same size as mine |
| 19 | Essentially viceroy of the newly conquered lands , his position suggests the confidence which Edward placed in him ; and he may have had some influence , as his Savoyard friends and kinsmen certainly did , on the design of the castles by which Wales was to be held down . |
| 20 | The net result with HM was that staff spent a lot of time asking and cajoling him , but he did not respond or became disturbed , and staff eventually did much of the activity themselves . |
| 21 | The neutrality of Cambodia and Laos certainly did not resolve the security problems of these states . |
| 22 | And Grandmother certainly did n't indulge in that ! |
| 23 | This island seems overrun with small black pigs ( animals so much a part of Tongan life that when Captain Cook presented a pair of hitherto unknown Guernsey cows to the King they were classified as ‘ Cook 's pigs ’ , and the name has stuck for cows ever since ) , and with Australian cruising ‘ yachties ’ who use the Niuas ( as Schouten and LeMaire once did ) as the formal port of entry to the kingdom . |
| 24 | Sampson and Clarke certainly did not see ‘ eye to eye ’ and they had the utmost contempt for each other as cricketers . |
| 25 | It 's something my grandmother and grandfather always did . |
| 26 | They walked back to the cars together and Preston never did get to stand there alone . |
| 27 | How well these grants reflect the amount of exchange activity in the landscape is not clear , since some grants seem never to have been taken up and others clearly did not persist . |
| 28 | And er there 's quite a number of years h he , there was many bicycle shops in Galashiels when the new safety bike came in , and blacksmiths probably did n't bother doing any work on them . |
| 29 | There was no way for users to communicate their difficulties to designers and systems just did not warn the inexperienced of potentially dangerous actions . |
| 30 | I was terribly embarrassed ; not only was I a convent girl but the skirts were worn down to the ankles and women just did n't show their legs in those days . |