Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [pron] did [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level .
2 Around this time his wage rate came to 2/3 a day , but he rarely worked more than about 10 days in any month , and in some months he did not work at all .
3 The last few months she did n't me and fed me when he could , and cared for me .
4 Some days he did n't say a word .
5 Some days I did n't bother to get dressed at all .
6 The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock .
7 He started off at Ramsbottom depot , er , a few things I did n't know about him .
8 While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop .
9 But there were some things one did not think about because they were unimaginable .
10 True , there were some things he did n't like about the Khedive 's regime , the patronage , the corruption , the inefficiency .
11 There were some things you did n't tell even your friends .
12 Right , so there are some things you did n't know about him .
13 Then : ‘ Georges said Edouard told his colleagues he 'd been attacked in the street the night before by some youths he did n't know .
14 ‘ How did it get there ? ’ he insisted , keeping his voice low because he knew having babies was something of an embarrassment , like some diseases you did n't talk about .
15 For a few seconds he did n't speak , and just watched us .
16 For a few moments he did n't seem to realise she was there .
17 There were some Romans who did not believe in all their own pagan gods but who were inclined towards the idea of one universal God .
18 At such moments it did not seem better to be dead than Red , neither did it seem plausible that there was a godless conspiracy at work wherever one looked .
19 She thought of Eileen as ‘ That one ’ , though these days she did n't dare say so .
20 For these things I did not forgive her .
21 When a repeat biopsy was taken in these patients it did not affect management and this practice , which has often been followed just to satisfy some definitions of coeliac disease , should be reviewed .
22 However it is clear that these students who did not meet the GER had passed through a rigorous process of selection , and a number of them already had two A-level at the time of entry .
23 I did n't actually and I picked the rabbit up twice , so many times it did n't bite me .
24 There were too many houses he did not own ; and he could not afford to see any more built .
25 Despite Soviet President Gorbachev 's proposals to include a united Germany as an " associate member " of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact [ see p. 37466 ] , it emerged on June 14 that the Soviet Defence Minister , Marshal Dmitri Yazov , had opposed all proposals which did not endorse a united Germany as part of " a bloc-free European collective security system " .
26 From all accounts he did n't sound as if he had the spunk to be a murderer .
27 ‘ By all accounts he did very well indeed , ’ said a delighted Russ who gave Stephen his first taste of Bass NWC football last season and has seen much to justify his brave decision .
28 proper returns adequate for our audit have been received from all branches we did not visit ;
29 If he was the cynosure of all eyes he did n't notice and in his present mood he would n't have been troubled if he had .
30 In doing this it would have been helpful to include profitability or value added as the independent variable but in all countries there were many companies which did not know or would not release these figures in relation to individual products .
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