Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb infin] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did carry an extra two-gallon can , and had to resort to it three times . |
| 2 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Yet they did face a genuine dilemma , which the simple formulas offered by critics could not resolve . |
| 5 | Although these theories could not easily be deployed in the ‘ real ’ world , they did serve a valuable purpose as condensations of patterns of thought about the media . |
| 6 | In addition , while they were not restricted to any one social class , they did develop a clear sense of identity , fostered by a number of distinctive badges , such as their preference for Christian names of an Old Testament origin or of their own elaborate and didactic construction , such as Sin-deny , Be-Thankful , Praise-God , and Sure-Trust . |
| 7 | The restored Stuarts did not have to deal with any difficulty of this sort but they did have a general problem of making sure that the King 's authority was accepted . |
| 8 | Despite being easy trips they did have a valuable effect on crews . |
| 9 | I ca n't help but wonder why on earth they did have a different strip for the World Cup . |
| 10 | But they did have a drastic effect . |
| 11 | Yet they did have an important influence on the evolution of bargaining structure and the characteristic form which it assumed . |
| 12 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 13 | I mean in , in , in retrospect they probably could 've achieved it because they , they got the military er they , they , they did get the military security and you probably could 've afforded actually to , to mobilize the peasants through land reform . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not quite sure , ’ the writer said , ‘ why these American officers were in the Catalinas ’ , and he went on to say that if they did play a valuable part in the operation , the Admiralty might care to recognize their services . |
| 15 | Russian industrialists were still largely dependent on foreign raw materials and machinery , but from the late 1860s they did enjoy a steep rise in orders . |
| 16 | In this , they did need the enthusiastic support of the chairperson . |
| 17 | Of course when they did reappear the predictable line ‘ And on the seventh day he rested ’ was much used . |
| 18 | In so far as they did see a coming energy source they thought it would be atomic energy , and they wrote the treaty that 's called the Euratom Treaty to cover this , but it did n't cover oil , and that is perhaps why it 's been a much less contentious subject . |
| 19 | He says ; I do think they do forget the basic points and they go away with a lkot more knowledge and hopefully will save lives . |
| 20 | Big Ron 's job lot are joint market leaders with Manchester United , but if they do lift the Premier League referee Raymond Bigger should be on the celebration party guest list . |
| 21 | ‘ CO&sub2 ; extract hops are expensive but they do give a good hop nose when they 're added in the conditioning tank . |
| 22 | While these figures refer to crimes committed by juveniles , they do give a good indication of the extent of class differences in crime statistics generally , given the high proportion of offenders who are juveniles . |
| 23 | But even allowing for such problems and treating the figures with due caution , they do give a dramatic picture of the relative sizes of different currency segments of the world bond market . |
| 24 | All these controls can be turned off , but they do form a comforting security blanket . |
| 25 | On the other hand , they do favour a horizontal row of dots moving horizontally over a vertical row of dots moving vertically . |
| 26 | The crystals made for Superman are down at £800-£1,200 — but , as every film buff knows , they do contain the accumulated knowledge of 28 galaxies . |
| 27 | industrial disputes are also much more likely to be confined within a single company and although such disputes cast doubt on the image or harmony , they do show the continuing importance of enterprise-specific industrial relations . |
| 28 | Before our milk recorders disappear on holiday they do bring the annual summary for our milk year which is always interesting reading . |
| 29 | So that there will be general consensus whilst they do represent a reasonable view of the people . |
| 30 | And they do represent a little slice of history … |