Example sentences of "did they [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But what did they really get out of it ? |
| 32 | Did they really peck moss to cover the faces of the dead ? |
| 33 | Did they really hate her so much ? |
| 34 | But did they really believe this ? |
| 35 | I was just , I mean did they really believe that it would , it would just lead straight on to socialism ? |
| 36 | ‘ Did they really have to trample crisps into the carpet ? ’ |
| 37 | Did they never rebel against the awesome formality of their lives ? |
| 38 | All that time ago — did they never write ? ’ |
| 39 | Nor did they greatly care how he chose to spend his spare time in Vienna . |
| 40 | Politics apart , Mosley and Joyce had little enough in common , nor did they greatly like one another personally . |
| 41 | Only in the War of Independence did they occasionally raise their voices against ‘ the rich ’ . |
| 42 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 43 | Were the technicians indifferent to what they were recording or did they sometimes become aroused too , and if so , were there rules against them joining in ? |
| 44 | ‘ What did they supposedly die of ? ’ |
| 45 | Did they actually care ? |
| 46 | He 'd been exactly the same once before when he 'd found out that Pete had seen Last Tango in Paris ( ‘ Yeah , but what did they actually do ? ’ ) and now , as then , Pete had taken care to fine-tune Ted 's frustration to the point of obsession . |
| 47 | How did they actually do it ? |
| 48 | I was that busy trying to convince him that he had to er go to doctors cos I says what did they actually do ? |
| 49 | And when did they actually terminate the employment did it take effect from the eighteenth of June or what ? |
| 50 | Did they actually check on the level of competence ? |
| 51 | What did they actually make at Bradley 's during the war years ? |
| 52 | Did they actually have to bring it up the estuary ? |
| 53 | Did they actually have folk with scythes ? |
| 54 | did they actually have to claim how much , I mean er you know they produced , cos all we 're saying here is they 're just taking a a nominal amount which they stipulate at the beginning of a three year period , and they 're just gon na take that . |
| 55 | And once your surveying was done , did they actually put you inside the tunnel ? |
| 56 | Did they ever go to jumble sales ? |
| 57 | Did they ever go for wool from the sheep ? |
| 58 | But why did they ever think a roof on its own was enough ? |
| 59 | and grandfather 's time , did they ever mention to you whether folk use to cross from Glen Ayloch into other glens ? |
| 60 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |