Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] did [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr in due course did you go to the flat ? |
| 2 | Only after this prompt action did he secure Congressional support , and , close on this , the support of the UN Security Council . |
| 3 | But which one of the three star signs did he belong to ? she wondered . |
| 4 | The French authorities did something to safeguard communal property among their Moslem subjects in Algeria , even though Napoleon III ( in the Senatus-Consulte of 1863 ) found it inconceivable that individual property rights in land should not be established formally among the members of Moslem communities ‘ where possible and opportune ’ , a measure which actually had the effect of permitting Europeans for the first time to buy them out . |
| 5 | English department did it last term . |
| 6 | One of the questions I was asked was , which historical figure did I admire most ? |
| 7 | Loyalty to the old King did nothing to establish Drummonds with his heir — and indeed the story has it that curbing the Prince 's spending on the orders of the King led to Drummonds being abandoned by the new monarch in favour of Coutts . |
| 8 | Did we think we about the old staff did you say ? |
| 9 | What popular impact did it have ? |
| 10 | Yet after Banks ' death the British government did nothing to help establish the gardens as a national centre for botanical research until a public outcry in 1839–40 led to the appointment of William Hooker ( 1785–1865 ) as the first official director of Kew . |
| 11 | Indeed what exciting lessons did you have to do ? |
| 12 | What exciting lessons did you have today then ? |
| 13 | AND HOW MANY BRONZED LATIN LOVERS DID YOU FIND , EH ? ’ |
| 14 | A series of measures to encourage office relocation in order to provide alternative employment opportunities and economic stimulus did something to modify the pattern though not fundamentally to change it . |
| 15 | Their muscular limitations did nothing to diminish their tactical awareness . |
| 16 | When you so eagerly accepted your first-ever part did you think Mowgli would be wearing a kaftan ? |
| 17 | The warm breeze did nothing to cool her flushed cheeks . |
| 18 | Unlike the others , however , he is presented as wholly admirable : ‘ much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among ; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master 's of all healing was … |
| 19 | He said , you 're a real roly-poly did you hear him ? |
| 20 | what average rate did you pay on it and what average rate are you paying this year ? |
| 21 | And VERDI , known only for the Operas and the Requiem : how much non-operatic music did he write ? |
| 22 | What I what I thought was , well let's have erm , Woodrow Wilson , okay , as you said at the beginning of the book , Freud admits that he did n't like Wilson , and that he felt betrayed by Wilson , like a lot of people in Central Europe did I suppose , because you know , Wilson came over erm , with fourteen points as the saviour of the world , and went away leaving with a piece of . |
| 23 | For Russia 's commoners , of course , the frustration experienced by the central government did nothing to make the burdens imposed by the State any less onerous . |
| 24 | how many packets of them mushy peas did you get ? |
| 25 | Dust lay thickly over the cracked flagstone floor and only when I ascended a dangerous staircase did I find a solitary reminder of the business that helped to make the Damianis one of the richest Arab families in Jaffa . |
| 26 | Love and its Place In Nature : A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis by Jonathan Lear Faber , £20 WHAT exactly did Freud discover , what improvement in human existence did he bring about ? |
| 27 | But nowhere in this fine plan did anyone cite the imposition of VAT as a measure to be avoided if literature , reading , writing , and books , are to flourish in the new Europe . |
| 28 | With what delight , therefore , on scanning the surrounding heath did I spot , barely 50 yards to my left — The Tumulus ! |
| 29 | Celtic 's 5–1 defeat in Switzerland still irritates Brady , who admits that not even in his playing days did he take part in a recovery of these proportions . |
| 30 | However , in none of the natural sciences did there seem to be serious uncertainty about the general direction in which knowledge was advancing , or the basic conceptual or methodological framework of its advance . |