Example sentences of "did [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she did narf she did narf shit on Linda ! |
| 2 | ‘ Well , he did rather harp on what a lot of money he spent . |
| 3 | It made a profit of $247m at the operating level , but did only $500m of business with the outside world , lagging far behind the leaders in the OEM disk business . |
| 4 | The Liberal Democrats did only 1% better in seats where they were second than where they were third . |
| 5 | Admittedly Dane did throw the odd comment over his shoulder as they drove , pointing out places of interest , but every time he did so Marianne managed to draw his attention back by launching into yet another anecdote which involved only herself and Dane . |
| 6 | When at last she did so Giles Carnaby was warmly effusive . |
| 7 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 8 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 9 | That 's fine but sentence six Florence teased Dougal , and did so Brian too does n't sound right but notice that 's exactly what you would get if you could substitute the proform for a subject verb construction and then it would mean Florence teased Brian too . |
| 10 | To get to the Fish Co-operative he had to pass Riddle 's yard and as he did so Matthew was getting into one of the firm 's vans ; he carried a clip-board and a surveying tape . |
| 11 | As he did so Jude asked him if he wanted to have a doctor examine him . |
| 12 | As Negus , Tafari now felt powerful enough to press ahead with the reforms he had set his heart on ; but as he did so opposition intensified . |
| 13 | Hazel interrupted him and as he did so Fiver started . |
| 14 | Second , four B , erm the proform substitution where a proform is like a pronoun or a proverb or if you fancy a pro-sentence erm sentence five Florence teased Dougal , and Brian did so too did so means teased Dougal the sentence for that is a proform . |
| 15 | Recognition came slowly , but , as she had feared , it came , and when it did so Havvie 's cruel eyes ran up and down her body . |
| 16 | As he did so Helen passed him ; her neck was red , a sure sign of agitation . |
| 17 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 18 | A Halifax Building Society survey found most elderly people with financial difficulties did not resort to credit as a panacea — ‘ their generation does not approve of credit . ’ |
| 19 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 20 | Did not Jesus indicate that ‘ the Kingdom of God lies within ? ’ |
| 21 | But it did not institute systematic means of monitoring school curricula to check on whether or not inspectorate advice was being followed , nor did it devise systematic means for exerting pressure on schools to follow this advice . |
| 22 | Nonconformity did not will migration into the towns nor the migration out again to the suburbs but it did meet the challenges presented by these mammoth social changes . |
| 23 | João did not cue himself in . |
| 24 | I did not farad to . |
| 25 | yeah — Lukic again — — why — did not Wilko buy a top class keeper before this season ? they — do — come around pretty cheap — i think the prices paid for foreign guys like Kharin , Thorstvedt , Schmeichel , Bosnich are pretty low compared to your average midfielder/attacker … |
| 26 | They did not part until four a.m . |
| 27 | We did not film it and that is something which even now makes me feel completely frustrated . |
| 28 | She pushed the dress back into the running water of the stream above the basin , where the soap did not film the water , and mourned the disappearance of his sweet milk ; his pleasure had frightened her , it was true , at first when he did not speak and did not ask or explain . |
| 29 | She was calm and did not rail in spite , that night , as they waited for the island 's noises to change to the night 's flutings and clicks and sighs . |
| 30 | She was , in terms of the law , the better witness , did not rail or curse as wildly as her opponent and rival — the widow , at one point , fell to the ground in convulsions , twitching and flailing . |