Example sentences of "did [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abolition on stamp duty for house purchases was n't made permanent , as I thought it might be , but inheritance tax was ameliorated and he did bring in transferable tax allowances between spouses . |
| 2 | Well several people did bring in board games but Mr Barnes was ‘ too busy ’ to organise us , so we just joined in with whatever we fancied . |
| 3 | ALTHOUGH India 's selectors resisted the temptation to make wholesale changes after their disastrous tour of Australia , they did bring in two young batsmen who missed the trip : Ajay Jadeja , 21 , who has been in fine form for Haryana this season , and left-hander Vinod Kambli , 20 , who has already appeared in one-day internationals and made 262 for Bombay against Saurashtra recently . |
| 4 | It was riddled , in his opinion , with old and stupid men , most of whom had been recruited by word of mouth or by membership of a certain club or school society , but to give Menzies his due , he did bring in new blood of a different order . |
| 5 | That helped meet police costs that rose by 16 per cent to a record level of £9.28m , although the Trust did weigh in with a £2.24m contribution . |
| 6 | I suppose a little Greek mythology did fit in really , lived with you as long you 've lived with him really ! |
| 7 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 8 | The few ships out in the harbour sent up fireworks and flares , and the low hills around town echoed with the wail of sirens and foghorns — at least until the dark did set in at about three in the morning . |
| 9 | Sure enough , Martine did move in , and had two more kids , and the wild old farmhouse became a bourgeois habitat . |
| 10 | After the war , of course , the superpowers did move in to set Europe to rights . |
| 11 | But , you know , the situation is difficult in that if the people did move in there 's not a lot you can do about it because it would mean that you would have to surrender the lease , which means you 've let the guarantors off the hook for paying the then and you 're left without a tenant whatsoever . |
| 12 | It was some time before the detective found your address ; you 've been very clever in not meeting here , but it was careless of you to go to the same hotel every time , even if you did sign in as Mr and Mrs Smith . |
| 13 | One thing I did appreciate in almost all the French and German restaurants I ate in , was the happy absence of Muzak . |
| 14 | What we do need is the co-operation of the residents , and I must say that we are beginning to get the co-operation now and in fact many people did phone in after the last incident when the officers were assaulted , first of all asking for the condition of the officers and showing concern , and secondly giving us information . |
| 15 | ‘ But I did stand in for one of your girls at Jenkinsons last week — and I sold the suit I showed . ’ |
| 16 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 17 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 18 | Despite all this , 'Mill did go in at half-time one goal to the good after some great work on the left by youngster Matthew Hadden . |
| 19 | You did go in di , did n't you ? |
| 20 | Yeah well two of mine did go in , one 's gone out into the fire service and the other one has stayed in and he 's got , he , he 's been doing very well , he 's been in a big big comprehensive school up in Runcorn , and then he 's been seconded to Cheshire County to the advisory service for a couple of years and so , hello ! |
| 21 | But I 'd rather if you did n't mind that you did go in and sort it out cos she said well put a cheque in the envelope with the standing order form but I mean |
| 22 | ‘ But if a real man did walk in . ’ |
| 23 | My father did n't know that because he was hardly ever around but when he did put in an appearance , the aunt behaved differently . ’ |
| 24 | But after nationalization , it was obvious , when he did put in an appearance or and that was very rare , there was n't the same palaver for his visit . |
| 25 | yeah that 's lovely , we did put in for some in February , we have this one in the we have n't got a cover that one . |
| 26 | And never in my wildest dream did we imagine that Labour would get in with the resounding majority that they did get in . |
| 27 | She went out his wife , shopping left him tinkering with this scooter came back , could n't get in then she did get in and he was dead on the floor ! |
| 28 | The peasants in the Roslavl' region did come in for some attention during 1922 , though supervision was at best paternalistic , sporadic , and myopic . |
| 29 | I mean , this lot did come in , only six months ago , announcing that everyone would have to stand on their own feet and not be rescued , and face up to competition , and all that . |
| 30 | Much impressed with my narrow escape , Dad carried the object downstairs on top of the sand in the fire bucket — it did come in handy after all — and we sat around gazing at it , drinking the inevitable tea and storing up this tale to pass on to all our friends and relations . |