Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [conj] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were mainly concerned to cement national unity and did not at first grasp the complexities of the problem and its interaction with political opposition , particularly among the Miskitu . |
| 2 | Gertrude Stein expressed much the same idea when she wrote , ‘ Picasso in his early Cubist pictures used printed letters as did Juan Gris to force the painted surface to measure up to something rigid and the rigid thing was the printed letter . ’ |
| 3 | Yet , for all that , many of these men , either singly or as members of a larger group , entered royal service and did well in it . |
| 4 | The students were being fed contradictory messages and did what they could to lead their lives in the best way possible , given deteriorating conditions and mounting ideological and political debates . |
| 5 | But , however this may be , the pope proceeded to the practical consequences of the new state of affairs : those who had already received lay investiture , or done homage , or consecrated others who had received lay investiture , were absolved ; for the future , those who received ecclesiastical preferment and did homage to the king could be consecrated , provided that they had not received investiture at the king 's hands ; and this was to continue until the heart of the king was softened by the rain of Anselm 's preaching . |
| 6 | For more than two months the men received full pay but did nothing more strenuous than drink cups of tea and read the paper . |
| 7 | In the European championship 125 race Robert Dunlop scored maximum points and did his image a world of good when he beat the hot favourite Stefano Perugini , the unbeaten championship leader . |
| 8 | In the European championship 125 race Robert Dunlop scored maximum points and did his image a world of good when he beat the hot favourite Stefano Perugini , the unbeaten championship leader . |
| 9 | Many of his fellow British actors — throughout the years — only affected to despise the movies : they themselves were not asked to do them or , if asked , played minor roles or did not get the hang of it at all . |
| 10 | Joan Collins who wears funny wigs as did |
| 11 | The density of lamina propria lymphocytes was somewhat increased in most groups of coeliac patients , but this showed considerable variability and did not exhibit the same relationship to dietary status ( Table ) . |
| 12 | Serious political divisions within the Congress , whose proceedings were brought to a standstill in October over the impeachment of the Minister of Public Works and Communications and the subsequent dismissal of the Congress president [ see pp. 37771-72 ] , threatened prolonged instability as did continued labour protests against anti-inflationary measures , culminating in a 24-hour general strike on Feb. 6 , 1991 [ see p. 38001 ] . |
| 13 | The propulsive string motif of Jacksons , Monk and Rowe solicited warm applause as did the political recriminations of This Sad Burlesque . |
| 14 | The main weakness of these republican reforms was that they threatened fundamental change but did n't fully implement it . |
| 15 | Second , the political and strategic decisions of this global alliance had to be made by an organization that included French representation and did not reserve a monopoly of decision-making to the United States . |
| 16 | Many pupils were still asking closed questions that did not encourage or prompt elaborated answers . |
| 17 | The Wisharts , who lived in North London , were not looking forward to the long train journey one little bit ; being just after the war , the trains were run down , lacked essential maintenance and did n't keep very good time , so the Wisharts regarded the prospects of the journey with considerable misgivings . |
| 18 | They wore stupid clothes and did stupid dances . |
| 19 | An even clearer result was that , of those who had entered into unemployment because a temporary job had come to an end and who found a new job within 10 months , nearly twice as many ( 44 per cent ) took temporary jobs as did the generality of those finding work ( 25 per cent ) [ see Table 4.6 ] . |
| 20 | Verdun seized American imaginations as did the Battle of Britain in 1940 ; compared to it the titanic clash on the Somme was to arouse little interest . |
| 21 | A month after Gareth Hardy , 25 , resigned from Chilworth Communications , of Paddington , London , his booby-trap wrecked vital files and did Pounds 30,000 damage . |
| 22 | For example , a group of people I studied in Madagascar changed their marriage system in response to changing economic circumstances but did not adjust their kinship terminology [ Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 23 | She had grey hair and did n't wish to emphasise the fact . |
| 24 | In 1961–3 , he was completely unenthusiastic about Kennedy 's desire to improve US-European co-operation and did most to undermine an American proposal for a ‘ multi-lateral nuclear force ’ within NATO . |
| 25 | The famous Education Act of 1944 extended educational opportunity but did little to alter the nature of it . |
| 26 | The report said an air traffic controller in the Bristol sector lacked sufficient training and did not formulate an emergency plan . |