Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the other fields I 've discussed earlier — public speaking appearing on television , staging a special event , holding a conference , you can ( but you should n't ) kid yourself that they went better than they really did . |
| 2 | The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances . |
| 3 | The contractions were coming quite quickly but they just did n't feel like proper contractions . |
| 4 | There have been improvements here and there in the East European countries , but generally speaking they distribute sulphur dioxide to their own fields and cities and to the countries downwind of them as liberally as they ever did . |
| 5 | I mean they only threw him out because they just did n't , have the , the , the staff , I mean I sat in there day after day and I felt bloody sorry , they were ringing , ninety percent of their day taken by ringing , begging for staff |
| 6 | I think there 's I think there 's quite a few and I think this is what swayed it , the fact that they have had erm , I know of at least ten say ten , there 's one , two , three on the other side of the road which is good because Bob which is another one , so that 's four , there 's which is the other side of the shop , is five , there 's us , six , Jean seven , the eight , erm the guy the other side of the which is nine , there is Ginny over the and the erm old persons ' home , that 's ten that I know of for certain about , er and then I 've heard of other people were gon na be writing in , now whether they actually did or not I do n't know |
| 7 | Johnny Tillotson 's Poetry in Motion , Lesley Gore 's It 's my Party , Cliff Richard 's Move It , the Ventures ' Walk Do n't Run , Eddie Cochran 's C'm on Everybody … all sound as fresh today as they ever did . |
| 8 | It does little for the already low standing of politicians in the public esteem for Major to say effectively that they did not have plans to raise taxes then and they only did it because it was necessary . |
| 9 | Too often their name was there but they either did n't appear , sending in someone else , or went only with someone else with them . |
| 10 | Americans certainly use lots of energy , but less prodigiously than they once did . |