Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [conj] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to a repetition test , he argues that the negro children who failed because they did not repeat the teacher 's utterance in the same form were really being failed for a different attitude to surface detail . |
| 2 | However , people who confessed that they did not understand interest rates at all well ( see below ) were more likely than average to find that the total cost of their most recent credit transaction had been more than they had planned . |
| 3 | The protection of rights became for him , and for all who thought as he did , the enforcement of ‘ constitutional limitations . ’ |
| 4 | You know the sort of thing : There once was a would be MP Who said if you do n't vote for me I 'll scream and I 'll shout Might knock myself out And probably fall into the sea . |
| 5 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 6 | He liked me to air my opinions in front of our friends , most of whom felt as he did : he said I looked so pretty when I got excited . |