Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] did [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or Ben did n't do it . |
| 2 | And , even after the invention of coinage , many areas or cities did not use it . |
| 3 | Sometimes parents had stopped the laxative because the stool withholding manoeuvres or screaming did not stop as soon as loose stools were induced . |
| 4 | Briefly ( for MM will reappear later ) , their point was that whether a firm raised its money through debt or equity did not , itself , affect the firm 's value . |
| 5 | Whether it was talking to travellers or just listening to the lads , whether I felt warmth or animosity did not matter . |
| 6 | The islanders in their shorts or sarongs did n't look ‘ professional ’ . |
| 7 | Of these , 102 episodes fitted the criteria described in the methods section , which were designed to ensure that the effects of swallowing or straining did not influence assessment of the effect of reflux on UOS pressures . |
| 8 | This could be because exposure to the hazardous substance or substances did not occur in those populations or that being monitored for exposure to external radiation was not a marker of the relevant exposure . |
| 9 | He was no more blind than you or I. Did n't you recognize him for that man we gave a ride to on the road ? |
| 10 | On appeal , not merely was no criticism levelled at this direction , but Humphreys J. himself stated that ‘ where … the charge is one of rape it is necessary that the prosecution should prove that the girl or woman did not consent and that the crime was committed against her will . ’ |
| 11 | In the latter case the passage was read at slightly slower than normal reading rate with care being taken to ensure that inflections or intonation did not carry across sentence boundaries . |
| 12 | And when someone said of a close relative , ‘ He 's a doorkeeper ’ , he was careful to make plain that his father or uncle did not need to work , but liked to get out of the house to chat with other old men and to draw a salary for it , rather than a pension . |
| 13 | He needed to think that he had been well-intentioned , but her consent or inclination did not figure among the considerations with which he weighed the matter . |
| 14 | The threat of VAT on children 's clothes or food did not emerge . |
| 15 | Being an intellectual or bourgeois did n't help that much in itself but those of their own journalists and professors they 'd sent to the remote prison island of their archipelago , Guru , had n't been systematically tortured ; just neatly excised from society for twenty years or the stay of their natural existences . |
| 16 | Providing the obscene video , photograph or book did not feature a child under 16 , the simple possession of such a tape was not in itself a criminal offence , Mr Jack said . |
| 17 | These were both common complaints : that other girls or boys did not have the nerve to ask you to your face if you were pregnant or not , and that " you find out who your real friends are " . |
| 18 | Most patients clinically suspected of dumping or diarrhoea after having a vagotomy or gastrectomy did indeed exhibit abnormally rapid gastric emptying . |
| 19 | It became clear in the operation of the first category that , for example , strong social conscience or interest did not necessarily bring a concomitant skill in criminal advocacy . |
| 20 | Few of his Frome ancestors had ever been so lucky , and nor had his father ; if death or disease did not rob a 19th-century artisan of his earning power , he had , as we see , the luxury of earning more than he needed to spend . |
| 21 | Weir and Wainwright did well at the line-out and the loose forwards were just as quick and creative as their much more illustrious opponents . |
| 22 | Karen made a non-committal noise , and Jessica did not push her . |
| 23 | Worse , he and Jessica did not like each other much . |
| 24 | The windows had been tinted purple , and Doyle did n't manage to glimpse the occupants of the cab . |
| 25 | But it was not taken seriously in the West and Moscow did not persist in linking these American bases to the INF negotiations underway . |
| 26 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 27 | Being one half of a cosmic Chang and Eng did not , somehow , appeal . |
| 28 | But the pomp and splendour did not go down so well with Craig Chalmers . |
| 29 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 30 | And Eustace did n't believe in the paranormal . |