Example sentences of "did it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did it dried up ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well erm eight hundred but when I did it wrote it into normal terms like six point sixty four with one two three four noughts |
| 4 | As the years went by , Dexter saw the look less frequently but when he did it irked him as much as ever . |
| 5 | Yes that 's what I mean , I noticed that the man who did it balanced it rather nicely , he had some actors some politicians , that everyone can contribute especially in a . |
| 6 | They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’ |
| 7 | I only wish the man who did it had still been with her . ’ |
| 8 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 9 | But did it surprised its writer ? |
| 10 | I do n't think I really expected to see it , but when I did it amused me to follow you , and when you stopped in Wexford it was idle curiosity that prompted my behaviour , nothing else . ’ |
| 11 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 12 | So er and ripped off some letters blah blah blah , so that 's ongoing , you know it 's going to be replaced and the er people who did it admitted liability and so forth . |
| 13 | He did n't say much , but when he did it knocked you off your feet . |
| 14 | I did it lasted about |
| 15 | Where did it came from ? |
| 16 | Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference . |
| 17 | Based mainly on the above elements , Barron 's claims one of three possibilities : ( 1 ) Gravier intentionally blew up the airplane ; ( 2 ) He slipped out of the Falcon during a refuelling stop leaving a bomb hidden in the airplane ; ( 3 ) He was killed ( presumably at a fuel stop ) prior to the crash and whoever did it told the pilots he was asleep . |
| 18 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 19 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 20 | ‘ If the method was copied , whoever did it intended us to think that it had been copied clumsily and stupidly . |
| 21 | Lucy had to stand on tiptoe to use it , but when she did it gave her a partial view of the clientele at their tables . |
| 22 | There 's an even more er perhaps er pertinent er point on this that er that did it did the congress system actually exist in any meaningful way . |
| 23 | And did it Did you move on from that job ? |
| 24 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 25 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 26 | Yeah I like to , I like to have a go at different things I mean the the the other the other lunchtime we had you know he came in at lunchtime and er Shirley had gone somewhere Ann and er I 'll have the chicken kiev for me please so so I went and did it did you cook that for him ? |
| 27 | You did it like I did it did n't you ? |
| 28 | I did it did n't I ? |
| 29 | Well Mark did it did n't he ! |
| 30 | just did it did n't they ? |