Example sentences of "did it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Realpolitik of Berlin detached the definition of the new Germany from Germanism — it did not include all Germans nor did it exclude non-Germans . |
| 2 | In Roman times , Oloron was already a place of substance , by name Iluro , but after the Romans went it was much attacked , by invading Vascons from Spain , by Arabs , and by Vikings ; only in the eleventh century did it recover , under the counts of Béarn . |
| 3 | The play doh , the plasticine , what happened to the plasticine , did it float or did it sink ? |
| 4 | Of course that had always been the case , the young always did set the fashion ; but never before did it change so rapidly , never before were the older generation so pathetically afraid of being left behind . |
| 5 | Did it change ? |
| 6 | Did it change your perspective on anything , on life , on politics , on what you 're doing in in in the job ? |
| 7 | Only in winter did it snap their necks to gorge upon their warm sap . |
| 8 | But it did not institute systematic means of monitoring school curricula to check on whether or not inspectorate advice was being followed , nor did it devise systematic means for exerting pressure on schools to follow this advice . |
| 9 | What negative beliefs did it reinforce ? |
| 10 | Did it dried up ? |
| 11 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 12 | However , I could see his logic , which was that not only did it burn about three times as much wood as an enclosed stove but the draught from the chimney sucked up a considerable amount of the underfloor heating , and even though it cost us nothing , it was poor economics . |
| 13 | ‘ And did this fire become a conflagration , did it burn itself out or was it doused by water ? ’ |
| 14 | What is certain is that , did it exist and were it to be opened by some ‘ cleansing regime ’ , the happy openness of British life would go for good . |
| 15 | How did it relate to profit ? |
| 16 | Where did the idea come from and how did it relate to their developing interests , understandings and skills ? |
| 17 | Did it relate in some way to the fact that millions of years ago our gill-bearing ancestors crawled out of the pond , and ever since we have been paralysed by the thought of a return to it ? |
| 18 | ‘ How did it go ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ How did it go ? ’ |
| 20 | ' How did it go on ? |
| 21 | ‘ How did it go ? ’ she asked me , as Rozanov gave her an especially tender hug . |
| 22 | ‘ So , how did it go ? ’ |
| 23 | How did it go ? |
| 24 | How did it go , ’ I asked , ‘ in Thunder Bay ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Did it go fast or slow ? ' ’ |
| 26 | Up until the advent of the superstore , if a small organisation wanted to buy a PC system where did it go — Dixons ? |
| 27 | ‘ Well , how did it go ? ’ she asked companionably . |
| 28 | ‘ How long did it go on for ? ’ |
| 29 | How did it go ? |
| 30 | Where did it go ? ’ |