Example sentences of "did or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the unpopularity of Labour , not anything Ashdown did or said , that sank Liberal Democrat hopes . |
| 2 | The senior staff of the TANU press felt that , while they might not always be in agreement with everything the Government and its various ministries did or said , they were committed to its goals ; the same , they believed , could not be said of the Standard . |
| 3 | Nicholas seldom did or said anything in business without repeating a text from the psalms or New Testament for his purpose . |
| 4 | He did n't ask what they did or said every morning , but left it to Bacci to report any snippet of information he managed to get from her . |
| 5 | With no choice , he told her and while he never discovered what she did or said to the girl or her parents , the girl never spoke to him again , indeed , never even looked in his direction . |
| 6 | Nothing at all of what we did or said ; that is , until the morning of my departure . |
| 7 | Forewarned by the matron to treat her normally and to ignore anything eccentric that she did or said , the two sisters immediately wrapped Elinor in an invisible cloud of affection . |
| 8 | Now , because everything we did or said might have had some effect on John , I found it hard to relax about any aspect and always felt that we had to do more , be more efficient , keep up the pressure . |
| 9 | And I know a lot of things too with the girls who came to us , we tried to erm give them er a sense of their worth as a women and not to constantly be oppressed and to accept erm what their boyfriends did or said , and so on . |
| 10 | Rachel cut the connection as though burnt , then sat there , staring at the phone , wondering why she felt such intense and inexplicable reactions to everything this man did or said . |
| 11 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |
| 12 | which is true enough , it never did or does ; |
| 13 | When it ended in the mid 1960s , to be replaced in quick succession by sociology , anthropology , and linguistic theory , it turned introspective in its defeat , wasting its energies on the grimly unavailing task of seeking , and never finding , a theoretical basis for what it did or had once done . |
| 14 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ We were not condoning what he did or holding him up as someone who should be followed . |
| 15 | For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right . |
| 16 | Marcion 's principle of exclusion gave sharp impetus to the early church 's need to define which books did or did not rank as authoritative documents to which appeal could be made . |
| 17 | It hardly mattered what her own husband did or did not do when his wife languished in bed , an invalid . |
| 18 | But it is useless to start deciding which aspects of behaviour did or did not have their origin in sex . |
| 19 | For instance , the last chapter may have inspired you to make some very definite statements based on things your parents did or did not do in their marriage . |
| 20 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 21 | Callaghan 's mistake may have derived from his own inability to grasp the significance of media images irrespective of how closely they did or did not correlate with some other version of ‘ reality ’ . |
| 22 | To study whether demographic , social , drug related , or immunological factors influenced the development of bacterial pneumonia among drug users , the characteristics of drug users who seroconverted but did or did not develop bacterial pneumonia were compared . |
| 23 | Clearly , fact and fiction become intermingled in such a process , but , as Chapter 4 points out , the idea that ‘ treatment equals methadone ’ developed at this time in Wirral , as did native knowledge concerning which agency or GP did or did not prescribe methadone . |
| 24 | Perhaps the observation of particular teachers over a prolonged period combined with the charting of individual pupils ' learning experiences — including visits to the library — and the ways in which they did or did not use project-purchased resources would achieve this end , but there are clearly practical and methodological objections to such activities . |
| 25 | Misunderstandings about the nature of the recordings contributed to some confusion in the early 1960s about whether the eye movements of dreaming sleep did or did not actually follow the action of the dream . |
| 26 | The facts behind this bizarre legal suit are hard to untangle : Sean did or did n't have an affair with Woods , now 44 , while they were making The Boost . |
| 27 | For many groups , public-pressure group activity was no sign of their power , but it was a testament to the frustrated powerlessness of those who could not get the ear of government , still less their positive action — no matter what they did or did not do . |
| 28 | As cities have always acted as the principal focus of political and socio-economic life in the Middle East , the study of Aleppo will show the way in which communal , sectarian and other allegiances did or did not permit the emergence of a wider ‘ national ’ outlook . |
| 29 | Whatever he did or did not do , Earl Siward was going to make trouble in Lothian . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't give a fuck if he did or did n't . |