Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three did badly compared to Japan and performed roughly on a level with the United States . |
| 2 | The debate over the Aggravating Vehicle-Taking Bill is different , not only because the Bill presumes a defendant responsible for occurrences if he can not disprove mere presence , but also because of the reasons which the Minister of State did eventually offer for this legislative formulation . |
| 3 | The monastic reform movement did not reach north-west Mercia either , yet this area had not been much influenced by Scandinavian settlement , and it did eventually extend into East Anglia , which had to some degree been so affected . |
| 4 | He did eventually speak to Klein , who after some persuasion accepted his apologies , and then went on to tell him there was to be a party at Taylor and Clem 's house the following day , and he was sure Gentle would be welcome if he had no other plans . |
| 5 | She did eventually die of a heart attack but it was nothing to do with Luke . ’ |
| 6 | When I did eventually look in the mirror my hair was in patches , like little bits of baby hair . |
| 7 | When he did eventually lose to the young South African by , the tournament appeared to suffer from a hangover . |
| 8 | The sergeant wondered aloud whether Maggie Parkin did secretly believe in her husband 's guilt . |
| 9 | The venture that did most damage to Jinky 's bank balance was the ‘ Double J Bar ’ in Hamilton , a pub designed to cash in on his name , but destined like so many footballer 's pubs to become a financial nightmare . |
| 10 | The CEGB could rely on the Treasury to oppose the expenditure to reduce pollution which did most damage in remote Welsh hills , Scottish lochs and other countries . |
| 11 | ‘ You did right coming through Adam 's Creek , ’ Wayne said . |
| 12 | For many years the station scientists did little research on these introduced species , probably because no one could foresee the possibility of eradicating them . |
| 13 | The incident did little harm to Gunn 's career and in many respects endeared him to Scotland fans . |
| 14 | Her reputation as a glutton meant that while she often visited the matron with digestive problems these escapades did little harm to her popularity . |
| 15 | For half a lifetime afterwards the same man stayed amongst us , but did little work after . |
| 16 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 17 | The huge oil spills off Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the burning of oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War in early 1991 did less damage to the marine environment than had been feared , according to scientists . |
| 18 | Erm it would be for the the policy itself to define the criteria such that it did only refer to exceptional circumstances and the occasional one or two cases . |
| 19 | Well , yes , I , I , I did merely remark about it , I think I got fifteen shillings per week . |
| 20 | While Helmholtz did not report solving problems in dreams , he did apparently rely to some extent on an autonomous process , so that once he had done the groundwork on a problem he sometimes achieved his insights apparently spontaneously , for instance when out walking . |
| 21 | One recent study by Williams described the weeding of 20,000 volumes from a college of higher education , which did apparently result in , a substantial rise in issues . |
| 22 | What did perhaps seem like a continuation of the miracle was the way in which Patrick had regained his healthy appearance and good looks . |
| 23 | When asked to find similar patterns for other numbers , only seven per cent of boys did so compared with 28 per cent of the girls . |
| 24 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 25 | The Divisional Court upheld the scheme adopted by the GLC but the ground on which they did so seemed to be no more than that ‘ since the LTE could exercise its function to balance its revenue account by a grant from the GLC , a policy that reduced fares by means of such a grant was not unlawful ’ . |
| 26 | He made it as easy as possible for his clergy to take the oath , and he acknowledged that his friends who did so acted in as good conscience as he had in refusing it . |
| 27 | He did so smiling to himself in rapture at his achievement . |
| 28 | The keeper did brilliantly to get to it , ’ said Hill . |
| 29 | I never did much care for it ’ . |
| 30 | I never did much care for it ’ . |