Example sentences of "who did " in BNC.
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| 1 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 2 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 3 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 4 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 5 | Levi goes on to insist that the real witnesses are those who died in the camps , and that those prisoners who did not were mostly compromised people or privileged people : Solzhenitsyn is cited as making the same point about the pridurki — the ‘ prominents ’ of the Gulag system . |
| 6 | Anyway , she was the one who did the talking . |
| 7 | who did that ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think I know who did it , ’ she said miserably . |
| 9 | Well , if you go by character it 'll be the husband or one of the Heptonstalls who did it . |
| 10 | ‘ Who did you say it was by ? ’ |
| 11 | Lucy who did n't know she was going to be pounced on . |
| 12 | One thing is certain , that those of them — priests , prophets or saints — who did so respond , were usually rejected . |
| 13 | In the end , to put them off , I told them I was quite clear about the type who attracted me and that there was no point in introducing me to anyone who did n't match up . |
| 14 | But just as quickly she remembered herself , barely thirteen , standing up in class and saying she did n't think the Catholic Church was fair and the nun , red in the face , asking who did she think she was to question the Pope 's teaching . |
| 15 | Then Monica , in apparently wanting the ITF to change the Olympic eligibility rules to suit top players who did not want to qualify by playing in the Federation Cup , said ‘ without Gabriela , Martina or I in the Olympics , they would n't really be the Olympics and Steffi could win the gold medal playing left-handed . ’ |
| 16 | The reductions will normally be worked out automatically before you receive your bill and you will not need to make a claim , but some people who did not previously pay rates , and who are pensioners or disabled people , can apply to the council for extra help as explained below . |
| 17 | The anonymous person who did it does not have the respect of the locals currently active on the scene and the bolt will , in all probability , be replaced . |
| 18 | From the beginning academic literary study was divided between those who saw it as inevitably involved with making judgements and those who did not . |
| 19 | In principle it would be quite possible for the study of English poetry to begin in a similar ab initio fashion , except that it would be fruitless for someone to embark on it who did not have at least some familiarity with poetry and a wish to read more . |
| 20 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people , who had never voted Conservative , and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power ‘ to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who did n't vote for it ’ . |
| 21 | Richards , who did not attend yesterday 's badly disrupted squad session at The Stoop , is to have dye injected into his injured shoulder to show up the extent of the damage . |
| 22 | Before Tiananmen , Britain had ducked the question by professing to believe that most Hong Kong people cared little about politics , and that those who did favoured little or no change . |
| 23 | The BBC , who did not wish to go live , will take recorded highlights , the two companies agreeing on the same commentators . |
| 24 | It was Gerald Kaufman , shadow foreign secretary , who did that for him , in a speech of vast sweeping grasp . |
| 25 | He threw himself vigorously into the work in hand , and presented the aspect of one who did not know when to stop . |
| 26 | John Prescott , who did not stand last year , leaped to third place above both Tony Benn and Dennis Skinner , who used to come first and second . |
| 27 | Mr Gilchrist said the second alternative would be to impose a levy — linked to profits — on lawyers who did only privately paid work , to subsidise those who did legal aid work . |
| 28 | Mr Gilchrist said the second alternative would be to impose a levy — linked to profits — on lawyers who did only privately paid work , to subsidise those who did legal aid work . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 30 | Mr Rampton suggested if Lord Aldington had not known what would happen to the Yugoslavs , he was the only person in his corps who did not . |