Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart did not leap with joy , it turned cold with panic . |
| 2 | Seldom in my experience did English women demonstrate the slightest interest in learning from us , from our struggles and from our political experiences . |
| 3 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 4 | Cos I thought I 'd lost my money did n't I ? |
| 5 | As Jean points out : ‘ When I grew up , my Mum did nothing else but cook our food ; her contemporaries did n't work . |
| 6 | Manchester-based Mark , at No. 19 with I Found Heaven , reveals : ‘ My mum did n't want me wasting my time trying to be a pop star and I came very close to quitting the group . |
| 7 | After about three hours , we got through and we asked her what had happened and she said ‘ everything is fine … the tanks are just across the road ’ , and my mum did n't know what to say because we were all so upset . |
| 8 | Really , yeah that 's what my mum did . |
| 9 | ‘ My mum did marry her one , ’ said Camille . |
| 10 | Above all , it 's better than working all your life in a fish-finger factory like my mum did . ’ |
| 11 | My Mum also ran in the Mum and Dads race which my mum did not do too well . |
| 12 | I got some sko some skirts last year from there my mum did , you know , she were quite pleased with them cos usually they 're quite are n't they ? |
| 13 | My milk did n't seem to be coming through so I was told to stuff myself with rich food and carbohydrates . |
| 14 | I only did the nude modelling because my sister did it . |
| 15 | I am truly very glad to do something to help one of Meg 's family — in fact I met Meg and Robin before my sister did … and have an abiding love and respect for both Meg and Robin . |
| 16 | and I thought my sister did . |
| 17 | my sister did n't , she was frightened |
| 18 | I 'd do it if my teeth did n't hurt ! |
| 19 | Rather self-deprecatingly , he reveals that : ‘ It became clear to me that my talents did not lie in selling . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd like to say I walked over to check it out ; I did n't run there , but my mind did . |
| 21 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 22 | Danielle was all smiles in the arms of her beloved nanny and much to my distress did not have the good grace to shed a single tear as I walked out of the door and out of her life … for a whole day . |
| 23 | To convince the reader of my findings in any subsequent report on the study I would have had to show that the points made by my informants did produce a coherent and logical pattern . |
| 24 | True , my eyes did the selecting that guided their evolution , but at every stage I was limited to a small clutch of progeny offered up by random mutation , and my selection " strategy " , such as it was , was opportunistic , capricious and short-term . |
| 25 | At least my condition did n't make me feel sick . |
| 26 | My granddad did . |
| 27 | He said he would leave me on the wing as long as me and my girlfriend did n't twos-up with each other [ visit one another 's cells during the association period ] . |
| 28 | I did notice , however , that some of the wild plants and flowers that seemed to do well on my pastures did n't grow in other people 's fields . |
| 29 | My brothers did n't have to do housework ! |
| 30 | My horse did well to catch him , ’ said Steve . |