Example sentences of "the [noun] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter did not even pause in his stride . |
| 2 | His three first-half points helped Magherafelt to a 0–6 to 0–3 interval lead , and the defence did the rest . |
| 3 | O'Leary can provide that , and the defence did nt look troubled at all when he was playing . |
| 4 | We were cut to pieces by Watford , though the defence did not help itself by defending too deeply . |
| 5 | After three months , however , the response did not justify the effort from the bureau and the initiators had to rethink their approach to young people . |
| 6 | The response did not greatly surprise him . |
| 7 | The income did not change its nature just because the trustees took their expenses from the same . |
| 8 | My own opinion — for what it is worth in view of the two cases above referred to — is that trustees are the proper persons to be assessed in all cases in which the income of the trust estate received by them , or to which they are entitled , is not tax-deducted at source ; and that — in the case of income of the trust estate which is tax deducted at source — they could not be heard to ask repayment of the tax on the plea that the income did not arise or accrue to them but to others , whether such others were income-beneficiaries or capital-beneficiaries . |
| 9 | In a stinging attack , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown mocked Mr Major 's habit of looking on at soccer and cricket matches — and said the Premier did the same when it came to the economy . |
| 10 | When the advocates of a pro-Israeli policy happened to be Jewish , says the Jewish Mr Teicher , the Arabists did not hesitate to whisper ‘ dual loyalty ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Listen to that Amy , that Jerry plane that crashed in the park did n't make as much bloody row as 'im . ’ |
| 12 | But the opportunity did not arise : he waited in the corridors of the Old Bailey , but was never summoned . |
| 13 | ‘ The opportunity did n't arise , ’ replied Martin . |
| 14 | Not everyone proved to be a persistent reader of one paper ( or even of a group of similar papers ) but the majority did . |
| 15 | I am certain they are not , and it is worth remembering that the majority did not vote Conservative on 9 April . |
| 16 | Supporters of the change were fortified by the knowledge , revealed by the Home Secretary in his speech , that of the thirty five judges in the Queen 's Bench Division ( including the Lord Chief Justice who conducted the poll ) , twenty-five were in favour of majority verdicts , provided that the majority did not fall below ten to two . |
| 17 | The mandroids did n't stir , so we were in . |
| 18 | But the story of the Gesta did not end in 1109. just as later monks came back to the Flemish comital genealogies to keep them up to date and to add new material , so the Gesta attracted amplification . |
| 19 | This Board held that in the particular circumstances — the contracts having been neither framed nor carried out in British India — the profits derived from the contracts did not there accrue or arise . |
| 20 | The Daurog did n't appear to blink , and streams of sap ran from the edges of the eyes . |
| 21 | The boiler did n't fill automatic , you had you had to fill it with water . |
| 22 | Supporters of the acts did not see the principles of state hygiene as contradicting the moral emphases of the public health movement . |
| 23 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 24 | Forty-one farms , just over a quarter , had developed a specialised product but it was apparent that the remainder did not envisage identifying or exploiting such products in the future . |
| 25 | Figures are hard to come by , but the recent report Trends in public library selection policies notes that 12 out of the 32 libraries surveyed kept ‘ some ’ information about allocations for stock revision ( suggesting that the remainder did not have any formal programmes of revision ) . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , local influences continued to affect voting behaviour , while about four-fifths of the voters appeared to vote according to national party preferences , the remainder did not . |
| 27 | Half the men were already straggling back into the Residency building or into the hospital in order to form a new position while the remainder did their best to hold off the sepoys who were already swarming over the ramparts . |
| 28 | OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords . |
| 29 | In the event the crowds did n't show . |
| 30 | But the crowds did n't show , and traders and exhibitors lost out . |