Sentence examples for to be did from inspiring English sources

"It used to be 'Did you say no? Did you explicitly say no?'" she said.

"In the morning, it used to be, 'Did you see such-and-such on TV last night?

"Years ago, it used to be, 'Did the due diligence firm think it was a good loan?' " Ms. Tillwitz said.

How elaborate did a kitchen water filter actually need to be? Did your 240 sometimes not go into overdrive when you pushed the overdrive button?

When you were a child, what did you think you'd grow up to be? Did you ever imagine that you'd become a writer?

"It used to be, 'Did you see Chad do the Riverdance?' " said Paul Daugherty, a longtime sports columnist for The Cincinnati Enquirer who wrote a book in 2006 with Ochocinco called "Chad: I Can't Be Stopped".

What was to be done?

More needs to be done.

I wanted to be done.

Much remains to be done.

It needed to be done".