Example sentences of "[conj] did [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or did ye inject it ? ’ |
| 2 | Theodora was faced with the usual dilemma of such contrivances , did one hammer on the outer door ( there seemed to be no bell ) and risk not being heard or did one penetrate to the inner door proper and risk being judged intrusive ? |
| 3 | Would she have been a normal and contented woman had she not been Nicolae 's sister , or did her willingness to abuse every chance to profiteer from her position and to humiliate those she disliked reflect a deeply unpleasant cast in the Ceauşescu genes ? |
| 4 | Or did something your parents say upset you ? ’ |
| 5 | Were the naturalists who studied adaptation doing real ecology before the modern name for the science was coined — or did something recognizably like modern ecology only come into existence when the term ‘ ecology ’ became popular in the 1890s ? |
| 6 | This became tiring , so I called a halt and suggested that Eddy , who was taller than I , should be the next horse — or did we use the word ‘ donkey ’ ? |
| 7 | Now what about these other campaigns we mentioned last time , did we decide what , or did we leave it till this meeting cos there was India and there was Women 's |
| 8 | What major good were we producing or did we start producing around nineteen seventy seven ? |
| 9 | Did they vanish or did we just forget them ? |
| 10 | The other thing is with employer legislation update , did we decide to do some training on that or did we decide that we would produce a handout ? |
| 11 | Or did we decide we 'd do both ? |
| 12 | Did they vanish or did we just forget them ? |
| 13 | Or did we have a reader ? |
| 14 | Or did they ? |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Were the technicians indifferent to what they were recording or did they sometimes become aroused too , and if so , were there rules against them joining in ? |
| 17 | However , the mystery remains and I will never forget it and will always puzzle over the mysterious footprints that defied all the obstacles , or did they ? |
| 18 | Neath carried all before them in winning the inaugural Heineken League last season — or did they ? |
| 19 | Or did they come straight down from antique gods ? |
| 20 | Was it a case of KLM bringing pressure , for commercial reasons , on the RLD to accept the DC-10 , or did they feel unable to challenge the validity of the FAA certificate of airworthiness ? |
| 21 | Perhaps they did not really believe in them — or did they ? |
| 22 | or did they want five pounds for him ? |
| 23 | ‘ Or did they get two for the price of one ? ’ |
| 24 | " When asked " Were they forcibly evicted , or did they go of their own free will ? " he answered " Some left voluntarily owing to the poor markets . " |
| 25 | Was it d d d w was there was there like er erm sort of pa er erm love of country or or did they stress , say the virtues of honesty a a and fairness , can can you remember anything like that ? |
| 26 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 27 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 28 | There was only one day , was n't there , or did they have days here but they were just very long ? |
| 29 | Full of anticipation they were fitted out with very chic driving overalls , registered for the day ( or did they sign their lives away ? ) and listened very intently to the briefing . |
| 30 | Did they have a , did they have a band or anything in the church or did they sing without music ? |