Example sentences of "did they [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 2 | Did they also wonder if they had anything to learn from them ? |
| 3 | Did they also have a revolver each ? |
| 4 | Did they even attend the mosque on a regular basis ? |
| 5 | Nor , it seemed , did they even suspect the existence of Station X. After all , Bletchley was an important railway junction , and the lines gleaming in the moonlight could have been an aid to enemy reconnaissance planes and bombers . |
| 6 | Soon did they soon take up enough he used to go on board with his book and get it signed by the mate or the er captain of the ship . |
| 7 | And yet , ’ Corbett laughed abruptly , ‘ did they just offer their throats to the murderer ? ’ |
| 8 | And then how , did they just vote for them ? |
| 9 | So did they just keep the hotel open all year for these visitors ? |
| 10 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
| 11 | So did they just have you on right away ? |
| 12 | Did they just pack up one day and go back to Germany ? |
| 13 | And and was i how did you work it , was it like a certain amount of men per lorry or did they just come in convoy ? |
| 14 | And what happened at the changeover , did they just fire you all and then reinstate you ? |
| 15 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
| 16 | So I went and he er , and she goes er , and did they both pass ? |
| 17 | And did they both get married ? |
| 18 | But were they were faking — did they simply have better memories ? |
| 19 | While they , unlike Feuerbach , certainly did not intend to turn theology into anthropology , did they nevertheless risk doing precisely that ? |
| 20 | Had Humphrey and Janet been very wicked too , Lettice wanted to know , and did they too haunt the Lodge ? |
| 21 | Did they still think the Earth was flat in those days ? |
| 22 | After the end of the First World War and when the motor car came in did they still come along on horses ? |
| 23 | Why in such wretched circumstances , faced by such great dangers , did they still prosecute these petty feuds ? |
| 24 | Neither did they always reflect forward looking views on education . |
| 25 | Why did they always cloak everything , if not with seven veils , at least with one ? |
| 26 | Did they always work ? |
| 27 | Welcome to Ireland , and their comfortable , confusing , delightful brand of hospitality — And did they always keep this room made up for guests ? |
| 28 | Did they really mean to choose me ? |
| 29 | Did they really cope so well in a man 's world , or was it all just an act ? |
| 30 | Did they really want to argue ? |