Example sentences of "[vb past] did [adv] " in BNC.

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1 You may be able to get separate insurance but the companies we tried did n't want to know — and none of the companies normally used by vets to insure pets were prepared to cover fish .
2 Cos Aunty Margaret used did n't she ?
3 He abdicated did n't he ?
4 In his careful , helpful , written and oral submissions Mr. Baragwanath , who appeared for the respondents before the Board , accepted that special leave to appeal would as a general rule be granted by the Board in the exercise of its discretion to a petitioner who had been erroneously refused leave to appeal as of right save in exceptional circumstances , for example , where the judgment of the courts below and the record available led the Board to conclude that the petitioner 's chances of success or the amount involved did not justify the imposition on the respondents of the delay and expense which an appeal necessarily entails .
5 The time scale involved did not allow the adoption of the methods and proven practice used in setting up the " persons " system .
6 Save for costs on summons and for enforcing the award ( or such costs as are directed by the arbitrator to have been incurred through unreasonable conduct ) , no solicitor 's charges as between party and party are allowed in those arbitration proceedings which have been referred because the sum claimed or amount involved did not exceed £1,000 ( Ord 19 , r 6 ) .
7 Yeah , well I do n't want that , I just found did n't wan na kick it , I
8 One product I found did not freeze well .
9 The houses Jannie found did not have charming patios or mature rose-gardens .
10 The reference in the letter to Lul to disturbances in the Church and the fact that Alhred was dethroned in York may hold the key to part of the explanation — that Alhred did not perhaps enjoy the support of Aethelberht , archbishop of York , who had replaced his kinsman Ecgberht in 767 .
11 Apart from the 90mins one Sunil mentioned did nt one of the tabloids have an ad on Monday to start something like that up ?
12 Bet you stopped did n't you ?
13 But that time has not yet come and Orlan found that most of the surgeons she approached did not want to get involved with her ideas .
14 I think he impressed the Inter Milan coach as well when they played did n't he ?
15 Now what was it like last year , all night long we slogged did n't we ?
16 And she said and he said , well they told did n't they ?
17 They 'd did n't have anything in that area and wanted to get into it , hence the whole GT series : the GT-50 head , the GT-50 Stealth , the GT-100 head .
18 Lib Dems in Scarborough and Whitby constituency claim up to 15pc of the leaflets they prepared did not reach their destinations .
19 But oh I do n't and then of course the war came did n't it .
20 Oh yes she yes she had those on when you came did n't she ?
21 before George came did n't he ?
22 By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case .
23 We practised did n't we ?
24 Mitchell 's ( 1950 ) study of villages in the South West is particularly relevant because the considerable variations in population change rates that he noted did not appear to conform with any simple indices of accessibility .
25 ‘ But United did n't , and looking back it was just the start of their slide .
26 But erm perhaps that 's a good point to erm mention that most of the parents we interviewed did n't see themselves as erm people operating in a group .
27 But that 's impossible cos the little kid that they bullied did n't even look like Trucky .
28 But it was the same when Palace scored and exactly the same thing happened did n't it ?
29 We would be able to tell from their expressions that those from whom we begged did not believe us .
30 It sinked did n't it , right to the bottom , so that needs to go in there , so make some plasticine in there .
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