Example sentences of "did [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For on 17 November 1558 — in the same month as the Scottish parliament did grant the crown matrimonial — Mary Tudor died . |
| 2 | ‘ People did think the King acted rashly but there were other prophecies , not just pious speculation . |
| 3 | She was n't a fanatic , but she did think the slipper was used a bit too freely on the younger boys . |
| 4 | Morag French , 27 , is more optimistic about a job , although she did experience a few brief spells of unemployment before entering the hostel a year and a half ago . |
| 5 | I did elicit the information that Fishbane was five years ahead of him and that briefly they were together in the school choir . ’ |
| 6 | But it did explain a lot , especially how Stubbly had managed to keep the Mimosa trouble-free over the years . |
| 7 | Lieutenant Denholm did explain the dangers to you ? ’ |
| 8 | Milton Friedman 's widely reported remark that ‘ We are all Keynesians now ’ was an exaggeration , even for the time , but it did convey the Zeitgeist of the 1960s . |
| 9 | Although not representing any direct threat to the government these rebellions did hinder the country 's economic recovery . |
| 10 | Mr. Howell accepts that in the present case the governors did consult the local education authority on the admissions policy and that such policy was a reasonable one for a Roman Catholic school to adopt were it not for the duty to comply with parental preference imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 11 | The nursing home say they did consult the council … and have promised to carry out sensitive landscaping … along the gap . |
| 12 | Green was fulsome in his praise for Barker 's determined and generous efforts to reach an equitable settlement and it is possible that Green did acquaint the Chairman of the RAC with the unhappy position in Bedfordshire . |
| 13 | The intention of the project was to investigate how teachers across the primary age-range used collaborative tasks as an integral part of their normal classroom activity and what they did to enable the children to work effectively together . |
| 14 | But the Irish Under-25 and Open singles champion did earn a place in the record books . |
| 15 | He did locate the apple orchard from which Liebermann had composed a large picture , and he made a sketch of it . |
| 16 | Afterwards , however , Pond , himself a Baptist and used to Beecher 's Plymouth Church , described the congregation as ‘ a very devout crowd of worshippers who entered into the spirit of the occasion and did worship the Lord and Mr Spurgeon with tremendous intensity ’ . |
| 17 | Neither programme really effected any change in the course of events , but they did build a sense of trust in those who might one day use us to bear public witness against the Godfathers of terrorism . |
| 18 | where they did build a school for them you see . |
| 19 | Probably humans did build the Store just for humans . |
| 20 | Our results showed that this interpretation , suggested by a content-based representation , but at odds with the one licensed by linguistic criteria , did affect the interpretation of ellipses . |
| 21 | This did affect the Croydon area indirectly , by the withdrawal of tram route 12 . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal held that menaces did not exist unless ( a ) they would affect the mind of a reasonable person or ( b ) did affect the mind of the victim and the accused knew that his actions were likely to have such an effect . |
| 23 | And we did compare the eighty nine based headship rates come from that ninety one against the census in . |
| 24 | ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field . |
| 25 | ( OK , so I 'm guilty of psychic breaking and entering on a massive scale , and the occasional bit of arson , but I did deliver a few villains their come-uppances when nobody else could , and I once taught a woman how to fly … ) |
| 26 | cook my dinner , ooh he did deliver a bacon casserole , mm , it 's hot is n't it ? |
| 27 | But in the final hour he did deliver the goods , taking impromptu questions from the audience . |
| 28 | For his contempt in abetting such an action his temporalities were distrained until he did prefer the royal clerk — such a humiliation that it was said to have occasioned his death . |
| 29 | His hands swept down and began to remove their clothes , first his own and then hers , and he had been right , his fingers did fumble a little , but she did n't mind that . |
| 30 | If the lecturer to be deleted is the only one that reports to a particular senior lecturer , then the information that the senior lecturer did supervise a lecturer is lost if the lecturer record is deleted . |