Example sentences of "said [conj] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | As always , he seemed to be apologizing for everything he said or did . |
| 2 | The result was a record based on events rather than on reason : things people said or did on particular historical occasions and in particular circumstances . |
| 3 | Poor old man , she thought , having by now recovered from the shock of his appearance ; he was so ill that one could n't mind what he said or did . |
| 4 | If you will need to relate what someone said or did take time beforehand to remember it clearly and note it down . |
| 5 | Whatever the police said or did , decided Meryl , she was going to resign her post at the District . |
| 6 | I know that I had no intention of stopping the procedure , whatever anyone said or did to influence me . |
| 7 | And when he said that he could n't agree with me , but please , please could n't we let the matter drop since nothing we said or did could alter the course of events , I was enraged because it seemed to me that this really was his attitude , he wanted a quiet life , not to be involved . |
| 8 | When Marsh was dumped it did not concern him that as Australian captain anything he said or did might be misconstrued or magnified many times over . |
| 9 | Thus Graham Leonard , a prominent English Anglican high church bishop , arguing against the ordination of women : ‘ The Lord of the Gospels whom I know , love and seek to obey is not one who was socially conditioned in what he said or did . ’ |
| 10 | No-one said or did anything out of the ordinary , but still guilt made her jump when the nurse came in with lunch . |
| 11 | My guilty passion made me admire her in everything she said or did . |
| 12 | Even if mothers-in-law made every effort to be scrupulously careful in what they said or did , they worried that the children still saw them simply as interfering busybodies . |
| 13 | Right up to this minute you were unshakeable in your innocence , no matter what I said or did . |
| 14 | The rest of the group hardly moved as if absorbed in everything the coroner said or did . |
| 15 | ‘ You said that did n't belong to your family . ’ |
| 16 | I was never much use at school work , but he said that did n't matter , what was important was finding something and doing it so that you became good at it , better than the others , and that made you a person , gave you something they did n't have . |
| 17 | But the Transport Minister , who today tried his hand as driving the new train , said that did n't mean the route was under threat of closure . |
| 18 | While welcoming the news of the developments in Lancashire , shop stewards at the Albion axle works in Glasgow said that did not alter the position at their factory , where there was little likelihood of a similar buy-out . |
| 19 | I see you did n't say that did ya ? , you never said that did ya ? eh , eh , eh , no |
| 20 | He said nor did he , but sometimes one had to raise 'em to lay 'em . ’ |
| 21 | If the waiters were curious about the room being in darkness they neither said nor did anything which indicated it ; they had been in the hotel business for far too many years now to be surprised by the antics or activities of the guests . |
| 22 | People with power and authority who did n't like the things that Jesus said and did , and who tried to threaten him or get him beaten up . |
| 23 | Yet there was no discussion of whether the listeners wanted to hear so much about regional and area commissioners and MPs : few politicians ever questioned the assumption that what they said and did should form the basis of daily news . |
| 24 | She said many a wicked word , and many a cruel word ; she knew no virtue or goodness , she desired all wickedness ; like as the spirits tempted her to say and do , so she said and did ’ . |
| 25 | Nor can we know what Jesus was like , what he said and did by consulting the secular historians of the time . |
| 26 | She began to tremble , but although he must surely have known that she was not enjoying what he was doing , he said and did nothing to reassure her , nor gave her any sign of love or affection . |
| 27 | ‘ Robert , Lili , ’ he said and did n't enquire as to my identity . |
| 28 | To determine the nature of the contract one must find the intention of the parties as shown by what they said and did . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you think to wipe out what you said and did , and ten years ’ loneliness , so easily ? |
| 30 | ‘ Everything you said and did made me think you were a very experienced woman . ’ |