Example sentences of "do they [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did they choose the ditch and not the road ? |
| 2 | How did they choose the firm ( eg the reputation of the firm , of a practice area , or of a particular lawyer ; personal association ; referrals from current or former clients , or professional agencies ) ? |
| 3 | Not only did they wreck the London skyline in general . |
| 4 | On MOTD , did they show the banner unfurled at that point which said ‘ LEEDS HAVE WON AWAY ’ ? |
| 5 | ‘ Did they check the records against the ones in Howie 's file ? ’ |
| 6 | Many authors have used estimates generated by others in their own league table ; did they check the original analyses ? |
| 7 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
| 8 | SO HOW did they break the news to a joyful populace , eagerly waiting to hear the outcome of Margaret Hilda versus The Fossil ( © the Sun ) ? |
| 9 | did erm on race days , how did they organize the races ? |
| 10 | Why did they move the arms in the first place ? |
| 11 | How did they keep , how did they stop the flaming thing from snaking them all , you know ? |
| 12 | ‘ Did they make the journey safely ? ’ |
| 13 | Not only did they make the move , but they also managed to negotiate some funding and an arrangement whereby their staff could continue to be trained on E&Y courses . |
| 14 | How did they make the stuff hold all that water ? |
| 15 | Neither in Germany nor in the Habsburg empire did they make the slightest difference to the way in which foreign policy was decided and carried out . |
| 16 | When dressed , did they observe the normal courtesies ? |
| 17 | What did the Ministry expect , how did they think the men would react ? |
| 18 | Why did they think the Earth was flat for ? |
| 19 | And why did they leave the church house ? |
| 20 | Why did they leave the church house ? |
| 21 | They thought it over and only after their first choice , Eli Wallach , announced he would be doing a Broadway play instead of making the film , did they give the part to Sinatra . |
| 22 | At what stage did they split the power and the transport ? |
| 23 | Strangely , never once did they mention the mysteries of Selkirk 's and Ruthven 's deaths ; I got the distinct impression that both of them were relieved by what they heard . |
| 24 | And how many , did they do the whole estate or |
| 25 | In the Greek Church , the mystical writings of the fifth century author who wrote under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite achieved near-canonical status : not only did they inform the devotional and liturgical life of the people , but they also influenced the development of Orthodox theology which became hostile to any rationalistic or naturalistic ways of interpreting the reality of God and religious truth . |
| 26 | Yeah actually , I 'd be interested if someone sitting on the planning committee , or perhaps a director erm , yeah or perhaps you could tell me , er , why why if the planning committee members are so concerned about this , did they grant the planning permission ? |
| 27 | Why did they choose to omit a particular miracle and why did they change the chronology elsewhere ? |
| 28 | Did they dance the paul Jones ? |
| 29 | Run by the parishes or by groups of parishes , workhouses never produced an output which even repaid the purchase of raw materials , nor did they meet the vaunted secondary objective of training the poor in the " habits of industry " . |
| 30 | Did the taxi-driver , the ticket-collector at the station , the other passengers standing on the platform — did they sense the difference about the children and , seeing the black armbands , nod sadly , knowingly , and smile in encouragement and sympathy ? |