Example sentences of "did [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did eventually rather lose touch , though we 'd sometimes meet in London when he was back . |
| 2 | But he did rather cynically produce a proposal that the laibon ( or chief religious authority ) of the Tanganyika Masai , and his ‘ chosen men ’ , the laigwenak , should be constituted a Masai Native Authority . |
| 3 | Tolkien did right normally to avoid such allusions , to keep like the author of Beowulf to a middle path between Ingeld and Christ , between the Bible and pagan myth . |
| 4 | But , as we have seen , regarding authentic Producers ' Co-operation as ‘ the rival doctrine ’ the Consumers ' Movement did little then to help , and so contributed to the inertia against which the industrial co-operative form has had to contend . |
| 5 | But if a mortgage deed did expressly so provide , the enforceability of such a provision would , in our opinion , be open to serious question on public policy grounds . |
| 6 | Mr Gilchrist said the second alternative would be to impose a levy — linked to profits — on lawyers who did only privately paid work , to subsidise those who did legal aid work . |
| 7 | Ben Hanbury 's three-year-old completely missed the break in that 16-runner event and in the circumstances did extremely well to finish sixth , 12½ lengths behind Musicale . |
| 8 | The north Essex side did extremely well to beat Redbridge and Ilford by the handsome score of 4–1 in the semi-final , but the rugged nature of that game paid its price . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course you 're suggesting the side lines were n't legitimate and this may be hindsight , but now I look back Mr Hatton did perhaps occasionally have a shady air about him when he talked of them . |
| 10 | When Lyle won the Masters in 1988 , he did so immediately following another victory at Greensboro . |
| 11 | When Lyle won the Masters in 1988 , he did so immediately following another victory at Greensboro . |
| 12 | She caught sight of it and put up her other hand , and with a finger stroked his bottom lip until he flinched and turned his head away , parting his lips as he did so however to bite her finger slightly , and close on it . |
| 13 | A pleasant little place ; a pity they did so little trade . |
| 14 | The dawn — when finally it came up — did so neither like thunder , nor rosy-fingered . |
| 15 | By 1310 , therefore , when Edward moved his court and government to York in order to escape the inhibiting surveillance of the Ordainers , he did so ostensibly to combat the Scottish menace . |
| 16 | Second , four B , erm the proform substitution where a proform is like a pronoun or a proverb or if you fancy a pro-sentence erm sentence five Florence teased Dougal , and Brian did so too did so means teased Dougal the sentence for that is a proform . |
| 17 | Both the American and British missile programmes owed much to German wartime work on their V-1s and V-2s , which did so much damage to London , Antwerp and Paris during the closing stages of the Second World War . |
| 18 | The plain fact is that some elements of the social charter would run the risk — indeed , would make it a real possibility — of this country returning to some of the trade union practices that did so much damage during the 1970s . |
| 19 | Nazism was the result not of inflation , but of the counter-inflationary measures that did so much damage . |
| 20 | ‘ Ian Wright could be in the National Basketball Association , he did so much trash talking for 45 minutes , ’ Meola said . |
| 21 | Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins . |
| 22 | He used to tell me I was going to fail but I did so much work at home it was my best subject . |
| 23 | Oh we did so much work yesterday Sid . |
| 24 | The proportion of retired skilled workers who did so prematurely fell between these two at 79 per cent . |
| 25 | I never did much fucking look at that |
| 26 | In fact nobody knows exactly what Galileo did promise at this meeting in 1616 , but his enemies , by a gangster-like trick , did much later produce an unsigned document ( long after Bellarmine was dead ) claiming that Galileo had promised not to teach or publicise the Copernican doctrine . |
| 27 | I only had four laps practice so I suppose I did all right finishing sixth . |
| 28 | The second major effect of the introduction of private property occurred , according to Engels , as an indirect result of the change to patriliny , a state which he did not clearly distinguish from patriarchy . |
| 29 | the structural engineer 's design drawings did not clearly assign design responsibility to the steel fabricator |
| 30 | Of these , three did not clearly differentiate between the two systems . |