Example sentences of "did [pron] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet after Banks ' death the British government did nothing to help establish the gardens as a national centre for botanical research until a public outcry in 1839–40 led to the appointment of William Hooker ( 1785–1865 ) as the first official director of Kew . |
| 2 | Yeah I did I did go through it . |
| 3 | But did you tell tell him that , it does n't get that hot in the conservatory ? |
| 4 | Did she dare go back to look for it ? |
| 5 | Nor did she dare ask for privacy , because to do so would look as if she had something to hide — which in fact she did . |
| 6 | But did she dare impersonate a journalist ? |
| 7 | See if you can remember because we did we did talk to you a very short time about this on Monday . |
| 8 | We did we did evaluate that option er as part of the er early assessments , I do n't have the results today . |
| 9 | We did we did manage to recruit nine during the year but we lost er four by death as Kerry has mentioned , three by removal or one or two elderly people moving into er sheltered or into homes and things like that where they 're no longer contactable , and there were ten lapses making a total of seventeen that we lost er as against nine new members recruited , which meant that we have a nett have a nett loss of eight from a hundred and four to the present total of ninety six . |
| 10 | Er and so we did we did we did look at the traffic flows and monitor them . |
| 11 | ‘ What did he let fall ? ’ |
| 12 | Only then did he dare look back over his shoulder . |
| 13 | Did what to do expect you to get on with and |