Example sentences of "did be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those that did are not proud of it . |
| 2 | And the ones that did are completely bewildered at the siege of journalists outside and everything has to be explained to them in words of one syllable . |
| 3 | Somebody knew he was coming , and the only people who did are here in Royston Manor ! ’ |
| 4 | How many visits did be pay to the island ? |
| 5 | ‘ Mummy and Daddy did be married , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ Jack did be married , ’ said Damian . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 8 | Those who did were mostly long-haired , bearded and dressed in open-toed sandals . |
| 9 | Some of the things he did were stupid , really childish , like the way he 'd gone off howling in Jubilee Wood . |
| 10 | However , in spite of having continually plundered Arabia through the centuries and taken thousands of its best horses , by the beginning of this century few of their descendants remained and those that did were in a very sorry state of deterioration . |
| 11 | It was once explained to me that most Asians in Yorkshire do not play cricket anyway , but that those who did were genuinely encouraged to join Yorkshire League clubs . |
| 12 | ‘ No one ever came to the gigs in Holland , but those that did were usually out of their heads . |
| 13 | Very few beat the system and those who did were not much encouraged by Bloomsbury House . |
| 14 | Were n't there greengages somewhere that scarcely ever fruited but when they did were splendid ? |
| 15 | Many of the productions I did were huge and elaborate and eventually I felt ‘ burnt out ’ — in need of a ‘ reality check ’ . |
| 16 | Very very few girls kissed , and the ones that did were n't necessarily the best kissers . |
| 17 | He argued that the kinds of jobs which young people eventually did were determined not so much by the development of their inner drives , as by the structure of opportunities by which they were surrounded — the kinds of jobs which were available for them to do in the labour market . |
| 18 | She always worked in good places , in the West End ; the hands she did were in Vogue once . |
| 19 | But he held such a plurality of rich benefices already ( reckoned at £750–£900 p.a. ) that , with his £100 salary on top , only certain bishoprics were worth considering : by chance , next to none of these fell vacant in his time and those that did were too politically important to fall to him . |
| 20 | Few people in the village had skates but those who did were not the only ones to gather at the lake that morning without invitation or fear of rebuke . |
| 21 | Three who did were Edith and Egbert Rose and Auguste , almost forcibly pushed in by a desperate Mr Multhrop . |
| 22 | Those who did were swiftly cut down , peppered with birdshot , as they raised their guns to fire . |
| 23 | And what they did were mostly bills of the unpaid variety . |
| 24 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 25 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 26 | What , what happened if you were ill at all or anything in the early days , did , did were you allowed time off for illness ? |
| 27 | Mind you , that 's what our Brian did were n't it ? |
| 28 | Two one they did were n't they ? |
| 29 | It were n't no cheaper if they did were it ? |
| 30 | I mean , all I did were leave book and ask them to check it . |