Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] did " in BNC.

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1 But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ?
2 Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you
3 Did you get the sack or did you just pack it in ?
4 Did you ask him if he 'd te , told his mum or did he just volunteer it ?
5 Meditation was something that only happened east of Suez and although imaging was something I did every time I wrote a book , play or did a drawing , I had not associated it with my cancer .
6 Were you given the money or did you have to pay for that yourself ?
7 Did you obtain any of that information from the collators card or did you know it yourself ?
8 Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences .
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 If the Policyholder was unaware of the faulty roof or did not have reasonable time in which to carry out repairs , then it is in order to deal with the claim for the damage to the internal decorations and/or contents but not the repairs to the roof , which the Policyholder should have carried out as soon as possible .
11 Did you was it you who chose to go and work in Llaneilian or did they send you to work there from ?
12 Was that just talk or did you have something real in mind ? ’
13 What what sort of things went on , erm was it close fighting or did you never see
14 Did they in fact have access to the new birth-control methods or did they practice older nineteenth-century birth-control techniques , more suited to the pockets of the working class ?
15 Alexander Rutskoi , the vice-president who has become an ineffectual standard-bearer for the opposition , claimed that there ‘ can be no talk of overall popular support for Mr Yeltsin ’ , because a majority of all voters either voted against the president or did not vote .
16 So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ?
17 It was a headline that did it , I think I put something like , ‘ Like Lambrettas To The Slaughter ’ …
18 Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters .
19 Once the murder is done the hypocrisy must continue : in Marvell 's version of Machiavelli , ‘ The same Arts that did gain/A Pow'r must it maintain ’ .
20 The man had a card that did the work at the desk , saved them the queue , and it did the business at Customs too .
21 Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last .
22 These might be seen as representing early ‘ experiments ’ in dolphin lifestyles that did not persist , despite the abundance of the species involved .
23 How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked .
24 She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives .
25 He had given her a ring that did n't belong to him ; a ring he had stolen as he had stolen Mister Johnny 's safety and Hepzibah 's happiness when he had stolen the will !
26 We can see that the CCCS presented a different picture of youth leisure styles than did the Albemarle Report .
27 He has also convinced the Scots he cares far more about their future than did his predecessor , Mrs Thatcher .
28 I tried this , but much to my disappointment that did n't work either .
29 Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley .
30 Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley .
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