Example sentences of "[conj] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fixed policy & did the sums , |
| 2 | I know of one person who failed completely the first time round , & did very well the second ; and Lord Rothschild mentions an eminent scientist , who got one ‘ C ’ the first time & 7 ( yes , seven ) A's the second , but he was a genius — or a freak . |
| 3 | They hardly saw each other & did not leave space for each other ! |
| 4 | He denied all the charges against him except possession of the literature which he said was either on sale in public bookstores or did not advocate violence . |
| 5 | Well , it was n't about anything , except did she have it off or did n't she ? |
| 6 | Did she or did n't she . |
| 7 | Or did . |
| 8 | He sent me a card , Paz said , just one line , Did Dada do dis or did e do dat ? |
| 9 | As always , he seemed to be apologizing for everything he said or did . |
| 10 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
| 11 | Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle , or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was ? |
| 12 | The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , 1884 Formen is the most detailed discussion of pre-capitalist society in Marx 's mature work and it really can not be understood except as a part of the background for the more fully completed works Marx was either planning or did wrote , especially Capital . |
| 13 | Or did the 1991 Geneva show provide the cheer we all needed ? |
| 14 | Or did they ? |
| 15 | Was Cullam a complete clod or did he realise how macabre his words had been ? |
| 16 | John fills in a gardening diary every day and often refers back to it to find out when they mulched or did other jobs . |
| 17 | Its mystery somehow diminished life , or did it enlarge it by making life and its purpose more mysterious still . |
| 18 | Did you do all your time in the Met , or did you start up north ? ’ |
| 19 | What , McLeish wondered acerbically , did he imagine his wife and surviving daughter were thinking about — or did he assume they had taken the death of a daughter and a sister in their stride ? |
| 20 | Or did he ? |
| 21 | Or did Mr Lawson simply let his natural rudeness get the better of his judgment ? |
| 22 | Before discussing the effect which the judicature Acts have had in combining Law and Equity in one court , it will be convenient to note some of the branches of Law in which Equity has made important additions to the Common Law and done work which the Common Law could or did not do . |
| 23 | Was he just a common cock-tease , I would wonder as I suggested a new word , broke an overlong line , or did he sometimes really desire a more intimate contact ? |
| 24 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 25 | Moreover , aspiring members of this new class were not only moving about the country ; they were also moving upward , abandoning grandparents who could not keep up , or did not wish to do so . |
| 26 | Did they in fact have access to the new birth-control methods or did they practice older nineteenth-century birth-control techniques , more suited to the pockets of the working class ? |
| 27 | They disagree strongly about its consequences : was it a watershed in British industrial relations , as some Communist writers would have us believe , or did it barely change the course of TUC and trade union policy , as Gordon Phillips has argued ? |
| 28 | Was she being stupid on purpose , or did she really mean it , Mungo wondered ? |
| 29 | She had said nothing , nothing at all to reveal to him how she took the idea of Florence Ames , whether she cared or did not care . |
| 30 | Marcion 's principle of exclusion gave sharp impetus to the early church 's need to define which books did or did not rank as authoritative documents to which appeal could be made . |