Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] did it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English department did it last term . |
| 2 | Why when he had lavished so much care and time , not to mention a medium-sized fortune on this aeroplane did it let him down so utterly ? |
| 3 | What popular impact did it have ? |
| 4 | And how much time did it take to make the coffin ? |
| 5 | ‘ Only in the last three years did it get in the way of anything and I was n't able to do any bounding ( a vital exercise in training ) or , in the end , any high jumping . ’ |
| 6 | In few cases in the later eighteenth century did it extend to improving the housing of the urban poor , crammed in their squalid suburbs in Chichester and Lewes or in the back yards , behind the better houses , in Battle . |
| 7 | How many necks did it have ? |
| 8 | And how many bedrooms did it have ? |
| 9 | In contrast to these reductions in the rate of stroke , the effect on heart attacks was much less : only in the systolic hypertension in the elderly programme did it achieve significance . |
| 10 | What negative beliefs did it reinforce ? |
| 11 | And how many men did it need to ring the bells ? |
| 12 | In Roman times , Oloron was already a place of substance , by name Iluro , but after the Romans went it was much attacked , by invading Vascons from Spain , by Arabs , and by Vikings ; only in the eleventh century did it recover , under the counts of Béarn . |
| 13 | How many folks did it carry ? ’ and when he refused to answer , added stiffly : ‘ Jess … that 's what I 'm called , ’ as a first move to soften him — and then remembered she was supposed to be a boy . |
| 14 | Did you how many strikes did it take to get entry ? |
| 15 | Only in a few cosmetic details did it owe anything to French or other West European influences . |
| 16 | Such was the feeling Joss Barnet had aroused in her , that not for one moment did it occur to her to blame him for anything . |
| 17 | Not for the first time did it occur to Meryl that there was an obscure kind of convenience in having a schizophrenic on the premises . |
| 18 | Only when he had returned to his own office did it occur to him to flick through his passport 's pages . |
| 19 | Only in the nineteenth century did it begin to include the unfair management of people or things . |
| 20 | It was very basic indeed , and only by dint of preparation for the royal visitor did it have any carpeting on the stairs . |