Example sentences of "[conj] did [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Or did something your parents say upset you ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | I have never lived any nearer than a mile from a public bus and at one point it would be maybe two and a half miles from that bus , so my children , well my children are grown up now , but my children got nowhere or did nothing if I did n't drive nobody delivers the shopping nobody goes |
| 5 | were they always made by the local blacksmiths , or did somebody sometimes construct one , as you said at Out of wood or other material ? |
| 6 | Did you walk up or did somebody take you up ? |
| 7 | ( Or were some people very quiet ? ) 4 Did people listen to what other people were saying ? 5 Did everyone understand clearly what they had to do ? 6 How did the group agree on its answer ? 7 How did everyone feel about the answer that was agreed ? 8 Was it an equal group , or did someone act as a boss ? |
| 8 | oh , oh , the thing is okay , did it , did erm , did , Daniel just suddenly like asked you out or did someone got you together ? |
| 9 | No-one said or did anything out of the ordinary , but still guilt made her jump when the nurse came in with lunch . |
| 10 | Nor did everyone see the need for an update on current classroom practice . |
| 11 | Nor did one put shrapnel into orbit around the base . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I did not close her eyes , nor did anyone who came on the scene before you . ’ |
| 13 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 14 | Jones ' record of that meeting notes that ‘ None of these dates were questioned or challenged by Fleischmann and Pons or anyone present , nor did anyone raise any questions about the proposal-review process . |
| 15 | Although she did call for a fuller apprenticeship for women , Amelia McLean did not argue ( nor did anyone else ) that the Monotype made old-fashioned apprentice ships redundant , and that by a historical reversal of the usual procedure , women compositors in 1910 actually controlled a skilled process while men did not . |
| 16 | Nor did anyone enter the chamber after he retired . |
| 17 | Nor did anyone ever imagine that such an attack could be made from the sea . |
| 18 | If the waiters were curious about the room being in darkness they neither said nor did anything which indicated it ; they had been in the hotel business for far too many years now to be surprised by the antics or activities of the guests . |
| 19 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 20 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 21 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 22 | Thanks to her I still had a roof over my head , but this economic patronage subtly altered relations between us in a way that did nothing to improve my self-respect . |
| 23 | Faye demanded , in her pert , pretty way that did nothing to hide her seriousness , why all these plans had been made without a meeting to get everyone 's approval ? |
| 24 | Under fierce lights that did nothing for her head , a doctor and a technician examined them one at a time . |
| 25 | She waited for him to continue speaking , but he simply studied her with a detached speculation that did nothing to soothe her ragged nerves . |
| 26 | ‘ The dog that did nothing in the night-time , eh ? ’ |
| 27 | He said it was worthless having a respected financial sector that did nothing to help the economy and added that the vested interests of the sector needed to be tackled so that the benefits could be accrued by everyone in Scotland and not just a selected minority . |
| 28 | You know that er French pol There was er factories away out at that just er that did nothing else but take chair work you know . |
| 29 | Abbey National considered using IV , but decided to move to compact discs : ‘ The problem was that we could n't find an IV system that did everything we wanted , ’ explains Julian Wakeley , manager for distance learning at Abbey National , ‘ also , we did n't need full motion video . ’ |
| 30 | So was he the guy that did everything himself then ? |