Example sentences of "did [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |
| 2 | I did eat jelly with chopsticks — as I said ! |
| 3 | Men could and did eat sandwiches while their female companions ate nothing . |
| 4 | then you did button hole stitch round that |
| 5 | then you did another line underneath , then you did button hole stitch round the line and the bottom of the other button hole stitch |
| 6 | One thing that I think we have to be very careful about , if we did legalize cannabis there would be a proportion of adolescents who would get a great kick out of it , but there would those who do n't get the kick because it 's not illegal . |
| 7 | Perhaps she really did think Grandma was being used . |
| 8 | I really did think Lotta had chosen the day of my return to re-enter the fray ! ’ |
| 9 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 10 | She always did think Jeremy was all right-once you got to know him . |
| 11 | Rural areas did experience employment decline . |
| 12 | The Western peoples — with the exception of the Ukraine — did attain independence . |
| 13 | In spite of these considerations , Weber certainly did regard capitalism as a class society — economic relations form the basis of inequality . |
| 14 | Without information on what motivates consumers now , they can not make reliable models of how things might change — for example , if labels did stress efficiency and savings . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the heart did earn Mark 112 days of life . |
| 16 | This did affect route 16/18 . |
| 17 | Metcalf ( 1988 ) concludes that levels of unionization , which were higher in large plants , did affect productivity . |
| 18 | And Fifties gentlemen actually did prefer blondes . |
| 19 | Then we did loose leaves . |
| 20 | ‘ They did throw eggs and flour , but the players did not get hit and just walked through to their rooms . |
| 21 | First preference votes cast for Republican Clubs fell from 3.2% to 2.6% but , instead of transferring votes on elimination to SDLP , a great many Republican Clubs votes became non-transferable which did damage SDLP candidates . |
| 22 | We did reassure people last night that there would be no odours and no harmful emissions from the canning plant . |
| 23 | For many of those who did remain life was very hard ; family members frequently had to seek outside employment on a part-time or short-term basis . |
| 24 | If Hiring did invade England , he perhaps occupied the north , like Swegen in 1013 and Harald of Norway in 1066 , and was betrayed and killed by the Northumbrians when Æthelred 's forces appeared on the scene . |
| 25 | But erm , it er , that fact remains , he did nail Wilson . |
| 26 | While believing that few teachers were intentionally racist , and while not accepting that racism was the sole cause of West Indian underachievement , the committee concluded that unintentional racism ( in the sense of stereotyped , negative or patronising views of West Indian children ) was widespread and did influence children 's performance . |
| 27 | The aftermath of the war did oblige Mrs Thatcher to engage in a piece of Cabinet reform on a small but important scale . |
| 28 | The children did make changes in vocabulary , substituting " changed " for " alternated " for example , and they also changed syntax , preferring a main clause , " When the wool had been cleaned and combed " to " The raw wool having been cleaned and combed " . |
| 29 | However , Winchester did make attempts to rebut some of the allegations contained in the notice itself . |
| 30 | And yes , I did make gingerbread men with currants for their eyes , did n't you ? ’ |