Example sentences of "did it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services . |
| 2 | In cell culture conditions , however , in which exogenous EGF can readly be shown to down regulate its receptor and start hepatocyte DNA synthesis , TAGH showed no ability to down regulate the receptor , nor did it competitively inhibit EGF binding . |
| 3 | Why did it not go down ? |
| 4 | But then , if that were so , why did it not make her happy ? |
| 5 | ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’ |
| 6 | ( If government would support a veterinary school in Edinburgh , why did it not do so in London , or was it simply not asked ? ) . |
| 7 | Indeed they would have argued — and perhaps with some justice — that theirs was a more refined branch of the art : for did it not demand to a quite exceptional degree a sense of the romance of the past and a feeling for an evocative relic ? |
| 8 | Or did they choose a kind of evening do you know ? or did it not matter ? |
| 9 | In what way did it not turn out as you expect it . |
| 10 | But did it not occur to you , ’ Theda said , her breast heaving with the passion she was only just holding in check , ‘ that I have lately not been seen ? |
| 11 | ‘ But did it not occur to that massive conceit of yours that I might not want to make love to you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Did it not say , If You Do Not See What You Require , Please Ask ? ’ |
| 13 | Not only did it not find the islands but it could n't find the way home . |
| 14 | Did it not know the truth ? |
| 15 | If Parliament had intended that , why did it not call the Act the ‘ Depraving and Corrupting Publications Act ’ ? |
| 16 | At the time Mr. Winterbone signed this document it did not contain any disposition at all , nor did it even contain any appointment of executors . |
| 17 | The Santa Cruz Operation has reversed itself on what to name its SCO Forum ‘ Product of the Year ’ and has gone with Applix Inc after getting complaints that Clarity Inc , its first pick , was not delivering on the SCO platform nor did it even have such an animal in beta : SCO is kind of lax in its standards . |
| 18 | If Iran was provoked , why did it also go so publicly out of its way to stress its respect for Iraq 's territorial integrity ? |
| 19 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 20 | And did it also say in big capital letters please do not y let your granddaughter fiddle around with it ? |
| 21 | Or did it just look kind of … reddish ? |
| 22 | What did it just say ? |
| 23 | Did it just come on all of a sudden ? |
| 24 | Erm I know he 's not seen anyone for thirteen years but did , did it just come through the post , sign here , send it back |
| 25 | How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg . |
| 26 | Sweet Sal did it just like boxing legend Ali used to — she floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee . |
| 27 | Sweet Sal did it just like boxing legend Ali used to — she floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee . |
| 28 | I think you did it just to please me , or perhaps to satisfy your own deep-seated urge to be conventional in outward things . |
| 29 | Now where did it where did it come from ? |
| 30 | They disagree strongly about its consequences : was it a watershed in British industrial relations , as some Communist writers would have us believe , or did it barely change the course of TUC and trade union policy , as Gordon Phillips has argued ? |