Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boot-and-brushing room , where Twomey did the hunting clothes and Dada 's clothes and boots and shoes ; a lesser room for lamps and other people 's boots and shoes . |
| 2 | Where employers did see value in work experience schemes , it had to do with information about career choices . |
| 3 | Where action did occur , in the USA and Italy , in each case a central government initiative drove the process of local reform . |
| 4 | Where redemption did go into effect immediately , the peasantry soon found their allotments inadequate , and their land hunger was exacerbated by a massive population increase which averaged about 1.5 per cent per year in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Today , it 's difficult to imagine how electric guitars were received in an environment where rock'n'roll did not exist . |
| 6 | Because the death-rate was high , marriages were usually short-term ; and divorce could be obtained where nature did not intervene . |
| 7 | The government should bear in mind that Virgin did not have permission to fly 95 per cent of the routes around the world ; it was unfair for British Airways to fly a ‘ loss leader ’ on the one route where Virgin did have permission . |
| 8 | But Carolyn , backed up by Phil Morris , hammered away at the point that furnishing fabrics were not like clothes , where customers did not expect to come back for more of the same . |
| 9 | Business deals would not be made where people did not know the other partner to the contract . |
| 10 | Unlike Britain and France , where profits were leaked abroad to colonial landholdings and estates , and where profits did not automatically become industrial investments , Germany had been forced to embark on a series of massive and successive re-investment programmes and re-equipment drives . |
| 11 | Lowell , in the real world again where music did n't impinge , was watching him keenly . |
| 12 | Where men did row in boats , ere undertakers bought it : |
| 13 | Other anecdotal evidence from pupils suggests that whether and how they use relevant knowledge might be dependent on their familiarity with the operations involved ; for example , several instances were observed where pupils did not use their knowledge of available lengths to estimate an unknown length . |
| 14 | Hence women 's domestic role continued to be stressed both ideologically and in state policies , so that where women did engage in waged labour , they did so primarily in low-paid , unskilled jobs . |
| 15 | Where Maxse did find himself more or less isolated was in allowing his frustrations to lead him , along with Willoughby de Broke , to consider the formation of an alternative party of the right . |
| 16 | Anna Patricia O'Neil was born at a quarter after two the next morning , so Denis did n't get his Patrick after all , nor even his Denis , but he got his much-loved and hard-worked Hana back and for that he was grateful . |
| 17 | Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy . |
| 18 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 19 | Yes except you did n't , except parliament did n't see half of the effects of it Thatcher |
| 20 | We conceived it much more narrowly than Jim did . |
| 21 | Then he , too , frowned and was beginning to say something when suddenly there was one sharp whimper and , although Sophie did her best , Sandy was dead in a few minutes . |
| 22 | ‘ He is an experienced keeper and I have no worries about playing him , although Jason did his chances no harm last night . ’ |
| 23 | This is not to say that Locke accepts all the details of the scholastic account of scientia any more than Gassendi did . |
| 24 | Although Newton did not hinder the setting up of a programme in animal morphology under Balfour , he was suspicious of the laboratory-based discipline and played an important role in galvanizing the country 's amateur bird-watchers to form a network that could provide information of real scientific value . |
| 25 | His death would have been diagnosed as extreme negligence as although Roger did drop a huge stone on him , he did not mean to kill him . |
| 26 | Nor , pace Marx , did industrialization inevitably result in capitalistic alienation ( although Durkheim did acknowledge that in ‘ abnormal ’ circumstances anomie might result ) . |
| 27 | Although Durkheim did not see economic developments as unimportant , for him they were in no way basic . |
| 28 | The Government is spending over half as much again more than Labour did when they were last in power . |
| 29 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 30 | Except Flack did n't have a technique . |