was failed vs did failed

Some examples from the web:

• And mention was failed to be made of this uncanny crew.
• I was one of those. I was failed by my school - my school failed me.
• The claim made by the complainant that TBA Schäfer was failed to win in the selection procedure in Northern and Central Hessen because of the cross-subsidisation through the annual contribution is also without any basis.
• For those proposals rejected after failing an evaluation threshold, the comments contained in the ESR may only be complete for those criteria examined up to the point when the threshold was failed.
• It was a failed experiment in every way.
• It was a failed attempt to kidnap this little girl.
• My father was a failed novelist.
• I hear it was a failed escape.
• Progressive volcanology was a failed idea.
• It was a failed attempt though.
• A few yards away was a failed chicken coop.
• I hear it was a failed escape.
• The topic was your failed relationships.
• The Lisbon strategy was intergovernmental and it failed.
• It is and was a failed escape attempt, a sort of a Shitshank Redemption, if you will.
• Age 19, and before his romantic novel Mein Kampf... he was a failed art student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
• Excuse me, that was your failed attempt as well.
• Two years ago, there was a failed legal claim on behalf of the family that the painting was stolen from.
• All it took was one failed product launch and the stock price dipped.
• There was a failed bank heist a couple of months ago here in Miami.

Some examples from the web:

• A friend recommended him when the first I.V.F. we did failed.
• Whoever did this failed in their attempt on you.
• She did what she failed to do a year ago, set the whole place to fire.
• I did what you failed to do.
• It is not only we Europeans who must ask ourselves where we went wrong with our policy over many decades, what we did or failed to do: the Americans certainly must, for they are closer to hand geographically speaking.
• How did you - And you failed.
• You did what Skynet has failed to do for so many years.
• Lucille lavinius Jeremiah Jones did when her wicks failed?
• Did she have any failed relationships in her past?
• Did she have any failed relationships in her past?
• My transplant failed, didn't it?
• But they failed, didn't they?
• Given that the GOC did not cooperate or failed to submit any proposal for an external benchmark the Commission had to resort to facts available in order to establish an appropriate external benchmark.
• Agent Lisbon did wrong when she failed to stop you furnishing guns to a man who used those guns to mow down a SAC P.D. officer.
• Given that the GOC did not cooperate or failed to submit any proposal for an external benchmark the Commission had to resort to facts available in order to establish an appropriate external benchmark.
• Given that the GOC did not cooperate and failed to submit any proposal for an external benchmark the Commission had to resort to facts available in order to establish an appropriate external benchmark.
• Does the Commission plan to take Cyprus to the European Court, as it did when Malta failed to adequately comply with the EU Birds Directive?
• However, by withdrawing the decision at issue, the Commission effectively did just that - failed to act - and the Court of First Instance committed a further error of law by failing to criticise the Commission at all.
• The Commission did not apply or failed properly to apply the normal handling and use principle contained in Annex VI to the DSD?
• The port state controls had failed and the IMO itself had failed.