Example sentences of "[noun prp] and did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inspector and two crews were stranded at Fleetwood and did not get home until 5.00 p.m. the next day . |
| 2 | She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care . |
| 3 | Whatever the reason , Jamie left Ayr and did not live in Ayrshire again for about 40 years . |
| 4 | She read on , about Jesus being born in Bethlehem and about King Herod and did not stop until she came to the line about Rachel weeping for her children . |
| 5 | I did n't want to be a Julie Rose' or a ‘ Cindy Summers ’ , I wanted a name like Kiki Dee or Dusty Springfield and did n't feel ‘ Zoe Bond ’ was quite ‘ it ’ . |
| 6 | Yesterday 's figures were for February and did not include recent huge job losses at Rolls-Royce . |
| 7 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 8 | The story was by one Paul Hiebert and did not appear in book form until 1947 . |
| 9 | According to one of the staff , she believed that she was Queen Victoria and did not like anyone encroaching on the space around her throne . |
| 10 | She lived in Jesselton and did n't come back to school in England because her mother is a teacher and educated Anne at home in what seemed to me a rather rough and ready fashion . |
| 11 | Then she popped 'em on in Haddenham And did n't feel too bad in 'em : She felt in 'em , in Cheltenham , Just as right as rain . |
| 12 | Scotland , on the other hand , open the World Cup against Costa Rica in Genoa — shades of Dortmund in 1974 when they sauntered to a 2-0 win over Zaire and did not realise that this was the game to build up a healthy balance of goals . |
| 13 | I returned to Sheffield and Pam and did n't see Scotland or my Mom again for several years . |
| 14 | I was white , pregnant and in Jamaica and did n't know how to respond . |
| 15 | Some years Christmas began in November and did n't finish until February or March . |
| 16 | Of course Oswald Mosley , our own exponent of Fascism , went a bit far in that direction , but he was worth some support if he stuck to the Mile End Road and did n't provoke clashes in such cherished halls of entertainment as Olympia and the Albert Hall . |
| 17 | The American defence chiefs were alarmed at the threat from the Soviet Union and China and did not relish the thought of their participating in a treaty . |
| 18 | There were minor improvements : capacity charges to Boards whose peaks were on Sunday and did not coincide with system peaks were reduced a little in 1950 and further in 1954 ; an allowance was made for lower-cost regional energy imports in 1957 . |
| 19 | I had never met David Waite and did n't know what he thought . |
| 20 | She sought to ‘ pacify ’ Miss T. and did not think that there was any problem as Miss T. did not need a blood transfusion . |
| 21 | After that I forgot about seeing Tavett and did n't remember until I was leaving the building . |
| 22 | He had to scratch at Monaco and did not return until Spa , nearly a month later : there , despite a wrist-brace and a lot of pain , Jackie led the whole race until he ran out of fuel , finishing fourth after a pit-stop . |
| 23 | Jaye was brought up in Hertfordshire and did n't have a happy time of it . |
| 24 | I just could n't take a journey in a confined space with a man who pronounced Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe as Sisty Dub and did n't think it was as good as the Lake District . |
| 25 | Stanhope had some important business in Manchester and did not attend on the last two days , as neither did Roberts , who was ‘ not very well ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I only said it because I was jealous of Jenny and did n't understand why . ’ |
| 27 | It was of no use if they received the sacrament of Matrimony and did not live as Christians . |
| 28 | I walked through many galleries in London and did n't see a single one . |
| 29 | I walked through many galleries in London and did n't see a single one . |
| 30 | The Cabinet already suspected that U Saw was planning some act of retaliation ( he resigned on returning from London and did not attempt to contest the election ) . |