Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the 1992 results are not public , a highly-placed source at USL tells us that they did make a small profit last year ( on revenues of $91m ) . |
| 2 | But they did make , nevertheless , through their obsession with death , the most extraordinary images . |
| 3 | Such actions did not infringe the Corrupt Practice Acts but they did make them virtually inoperative . |
| 4 | Gale force winds could not blow away the players ' enthusiasm but they did make it very hard work . |
| 5 | When they did make up the T-shirts — as I backed down and did the separations — they got busted for sedition , which was an obscure act of whenever . |
| 6 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 7 | Out there in peaceful Vancouver , going about our ordinary daily tasks , even though they did make sizeable contributions to the war effort , there were some of us who felt we were not doing enough , and some of us who wanted to get into ‘ the action ’ . |