Example sentences of "[coord] did [adv] [vb infin] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 2 | He remembered little about the fires because he was under the influence of drink and did not realise what he was doing . |
| 3 | She had given herself totally up to him , and did not care what happened to her as long as she was with him . |
| 4 | The Great Spirit … seemed to be looking some other way , and did not see what was being done to my people . |
| 5 | The two men ran after him , but the other wild men were busy round the fire and did not see what was happening . |
| 6 | Marcus still stood looking down , almost as if he were now puzzled and did not know what to do next . |
| 7 | Dorothy was puzzled and did not know what to say , so she smiled and then started up the path to the back door , when he called her back . |
| 8 | He was bewildered and did not know what to do . |
| 9 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 10 | The Gnome , whose name was Pumlumon said , ‘ But of course we have , ’ and the Gnomes all shook their heads sadly , and did not know what things were coming to when Humans did not remember about Gnomes having any magic . |
| 11 | It was a day lying hidden among all the other days of the year , so that she noticed nothing when it came round , and did not know what week , month , season or year it would be . |
| 12 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 13 | He was duly commissioned , despite his total lack of training or aptitude , on 12 June 1759 and , after his unit had been called out in 1760 , served in various parts of the country , though he soon regretted his patriotic impulse and did not enjoy what he called ‘ my bloodless and inglorious campaigns ’ . |
| 14 | He saw himself then , and now , and did not like what he saw . |
| 15 | Ursula wanted her daughter free at any price and did not mind what risks Maurice had to run to bring that about . |
| 16 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 17 | I was nearly in tears and did n't know what to do with it . |
| 18 | ‘ I became really sick here for the first time and did n't know what was going on , ’ he recalls . |
| 19 | I was n't coming to terms with it and did n't know what to do . |
| 20 | I have known gardens where the roses never had a moment 's fungicidal attention and did n't know what mildew was , and there have been others where the roses received every care and attention , and each year the place looked like a flour mill . |
| 21 | Was the vicious rumour that he had turned up late after a liquid lunch and did n't know what he was voting for true ? |
| 22 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 23 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 24 | A lot of them were slow , and did n't know what they were doing half the time : they 'd give you the wrong medicine . |
| 25 | I had never met David Waite and did n't know what he thought . |
| 26 | He saw them off on honeymoon and did n't know what to do with the weeks they were going to be away , until he thought of taking a total-immersion course in Italian . |
| 27 | I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’ |
| 28 | " The Shah wanted to go to America because he did n't know what Sullivan was reporting and did n't know what was happening in the US . |
| 29 | Devils could get into children because children were weak and did n't know what was happening to them . |
| 30 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |