Example sentences of "[adj] did [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she got right flummoxed did n't she ? |
| 2 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 3 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 4 | The fact that she was free did n't alter Fen 's situation . |
| 5 | ‘ The English did n't seem to know right what they were doing . |
| 6 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 7 | The English did not come . |
| 8 | I 'm sure you 've also experienced sessions you thought something somebody 's delivered in one session and found it really interesting you 've got a lot from it , and yet somebody else comes into the same subject matter and you think that you know was n't very interesting did n't , you know , did n't , I did n't really wanting to learn . |
| 9 | Unlike Mazda the bankruptcy of the Sanko Steamship Co. in 1985 did not stir any great sympathy because the company management had a previous record of arrogance ‘ likened to that of a rowdy lone wolf refusing to line up with other shipping firms ’ ( FTW31/8/85 ) . |
| 10 | In those circumstances , the judge held that the provisions in the legislation of 1985 did not apply in the present case which continued to be governed by the Act of 1957 . |
| 11 | This did n't work , so he took the girl back to Sweden and nothing has been heard of them since . ’ |
| 12 | This did n't matter to us , as we were putting in new pipework . |
| 13 | A single dose of Puls 200 produced a night free of flushes but this did n't hold and repetition of the Puls 200 after 2 days had no effect nor did increasing to Puls 1M or returning to Puls LM4 . |
| 14 | But this did n't stop him , and other objectors , from effectively countering the basis for the diversity argument — the need to have a ( nuclear ) choice away from coal . |
| 15 | But this did n't stick , and because his style was as I have said to always sit and wait , and never to make the first move , we began to call him The Older Man ; and then this became just Older , and finally just O. |
| 16 | However the weather and other commitments meant this did n't take place until 3 August . |
| 17 | This did n't stop the rock press from gnashing its teeth and a prize was certainly in the offing for the writer who could effectively belittle the Morrissey figure . |
| 18 | This did n't stop the interview from re-surfacing two weeks later in Zigzag wherein Morrissey acknowledged his undying erotic passion for leather car seats , amongst other things … all fairly lightweight banter and all revolving , enticingly ( ? ) around Morrissey 's underlying eroticism . |
| 19 | This did n't give the guy a lot of confidence about his bet , but I do n't think the thought of losing had entered Peter 's head . |
| 20 | This did n't happen during a single eruption , of course ; the individual flows average only ten metres thick , so many hundreds of individual flows are piled up one on top of the other , covering an area of about 130,000 square kilometres . |
| 21 | This did n't bother Kenny at all as he more or less ignored them and they did the same to him . |
| 22 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 23 | This did n't bode too well for our hopes . |
| 24 | The Buenos Aires flight was delayed and the plane horribly hot , but this did n't upset the passengers who seemed delighted to be going home . |
| 25 | Adam said all right , not to worry , he would manage without , but this did n't seem to please Lewis either . |
| 26 | Then Dad shot home the bolt , though this did n't stop us opening the window to see the end of the rumpus . |
| 27 | This did n't bother me . |
| 28 | I knew when people were married and slept together a baby usually followed , but this did n't enlighten me about the facts of life . |
| 29 | But even this did n't dispel some of the confusions that I was feeling . |
| 30 | This did n't endanger either the Union 's negotiation rights or the groups ' autonomy . |