Example sentences of "did [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following year , the police stood by and did nothing when students rioted against Jews . |
| 2 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 3 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 4 | Just lack of food and bad temper coming together , which never did her any good . |
| 5 | Why were n't erm everyone and the father and mother were calling Juliet , Juliet instead of when Juliet 's did you just sort of Romeo ? |
| 6 | When you were working here did you always kind of ? |
| 7 | ‘ Guilt never did anybody any good , did it ? ’ she asks across three thousand miles . |
| 8 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 9 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 10 | Did they ever sort of erm you know say this is just a temporary step for us ? |
| 11 | just to prove it was no fluke Bucks went and did it again moments later when they ran out Nixon … |
| 12 | Father shook his head sympathetically , but said , ‘ Temper , Kit , never did anyone any good . ’ |