Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | And were you alone in the cart when you were going round about or did you have a boy with you ? |
| 2 | Apart from the essentials , there was a lot of luxury stuff : pate de foie gras , smoked salmon , tins of continental delicacies he 'd never heard of and did n't want to try . |
| 3 | Bruno de Bayser attracted a lot of attention , albeit no buyer , for a magnificent FFr 1.2 million ( £123,700 ; $215,250 ) red chalk drawing of a young woman by Fragonard a deliberately eye catching piece to show what the gallery is capable of but did sell ten works including three female portraits by Dunker , Jeaurat and Quesnel for under FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) . |
| 4 | The shots were going to look terrific , but this was ridiculous — the very thing I had been cynical about and did not wish to do I was doing ; carrying a bike both up and down a mountain . |
| 5 | I have seen Shiraz and its roses and nightingales , which Gide wrote about but did not see . |
| 6 | 1,200 firms applied for but did not proceed to registration . |
| 7 | Och , she is , she 's with but did you remember Christmas ? |
| 8 | I was n't too keen on this cheek to cheek business , with men I 'd never seen before and did n't know the names of , but I kept on telling myself not to be standoffish and to relax a bit , but as for jiving — no , I could n't do that . |
| 9 | ‘ But it was really hard to deal with sometimes , especially when I got the thumbs down on something I really believed in and did n't want to change . |
| 10 | Then I went back in and did it again . |
| 11 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 12 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 13 | In my judgment , Parliament intended to and did provide a simple and expeditious method of dealing with a person arrested without warrant by a constable who had reasonable grounds for believing that that person had broken a condition of his bail , or was likely to break a condition of his bail , or was likely to fail to surrender to custody . |
| 14 | This was a clear case where the defendant was in a position to and did in fact exert duress to require payment of the sum unlawfully claimed . |
| 15 | He could not identify the man he had spoken to and did not know his name . |
| 16 | You fell off the horse , you got straight back on and did it again . |
| 17 | The further away from a time-piece you were , the more it not only seemed to but did drag . |
| 18 | But if you did n't have an A licence , most firms that had got their own vehicles could get a C licence which allowed them to keep th take their own goods in er er that they used for their own practices to wherever they were going to but did n't y allow you to take anybody else 's . |
| 19 | Did you say anything to the effect that Lawrence was being harboured at the flat at or did he merely say he was concerned for the safety of the occupier ? |
| 20 | Jack would be very much surprised if his friend would n't be living in one of those houses in Ploughman 's Lane like the one where he sometimes did electrical jobs with real old French furniture and real oil paintings and the kind of china you looked at but did n't eat off . |