Example sentences of "[noun prp] did get " in BNC.

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1 However , Oldfield did get himself a lawyer , and after negotiation with Virgin , an amendment to his contract was signed in April 1977 , increasing his royalty rate to 8 per cent .
2 True , Brian Robinson did get over from a maul on the All Black 's line before the worst happened — although the Australian referee , Sandy McNeill , was unfortunately the only individual within a hundred metres who failed to note the touchdown .
3 Anna did get better once the boy was there .
4 I wondered how she would settle down in the United States when she and Hank did get married .
5 And when jittery quarterback Stan Gelbaugh did get his offense moving , too often big plays were called back because of Monarchs holding penalties .
6 Leeds defence looked fairly good , Ipswich did get through a couple of times with some good moves , but Beeny was in fine form and looked confident .
7 But the friendship endured , and when Dimity did get married later , their affection survived the break .
8 GABRIEL DID get a pair of wings made from filigree wire quilted with the tips of peacock feathers .
9 Henderson did get a little help from his friends , in particular a massive 484ft third-inning home run from Jose Canseco on Saturday that came within 13 rows of hitting the roof of the SkyDome but dropped instead into the hands of a surprised Toronto fan .
10 Let's suppose BA did get its foot in the City Airport 's door — they would obviously use some of their Heathrow 's landing slots and operate on that route but they would also want to fly to Birmingham , Glasgow , Manchester and perhaps Edinburgh .
11 Although Stuart did get another , good job , it was too late for the relationship .
12 Watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy , Stuart did get on as a 64th minute substitute , but added : ‘ It seems everyone else gets straight back into the side after injury except me .
13 In some areas , most notably the liturgical and the ecumenical , Rome did get off to a good start in providing directives of a sort that would carry confidence at least temporarily ; even here , however , there was the inherent problem that a body of directives implied the establishment of a stable state ( e.g. in ecumenical relations ) , while the reality was in fact necessarily more fluid .
14 Judging from the tone of Mr.Peavey 's letter to your Feedback column , I guess Hartley did get ‘ peeved ’ over my interview in your March ‘ 92 issue .
15 Charlotte did get the position of nanny and often travelled on the same train home on her days off , always in the first compartment behind the tender and always hoping that she would see Albert , which she often did and she leaned out of the window to talk to him when the train stopped in the stations .
16 Ian Wright extended that lead on eighty one minutes , but Derby did get back into things with an effort from Gary Micklewhite .
17 But Arran did get his duchy of Châtelherault , worth 12,000 livres ( £1000 sterling ) per annum , in February 1549 ; and in June or July of that year , his half-brother John Abbot of Paisley was finally recognized as Beaton 's successor in the archbishopric of St Andrews , to which he had been provided in November 1547 .
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