Example sentences of "did [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 3 | Any production of ‘ A Midsummer Night 's Dream ’ with a host of well-known film stars , plus music by Mendelssohn , could not help but be of interest , but apparently it never did make a box-office fortune for MGM . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mind you , I did buy a fair bit of vegetables . |
| 6 | Yet the treaty of 1259 did introduce a momentous change into the relations between the two powers . |
| 7 | It was regarded by many as dangerously radical and extreme — in much the same style as the ‘ Bultmann school ’ in the last forty years — but it did introduce a new epoch in critical New Testament research , most notably by drawing attention to the distinct strands and theologies within the different New Testament documents . |
| 8 | However , one did need a well-developed sense of the ridiculous — particularly at such a time : you see , my husband , Nigel , was dying . |
| 9 | Gregory of Tours seems not to have known about the Trojan origin of the Franks , but he did know an undeveloped version of their migration legend . |
| 10 | But they still did do a certain amount of er the stock in trade course the bins for g for transporting stuff in and all like that . |
| 11 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 12 | If she did sense an added aura of poignancy it was probably because in less than two weeks Tivoli would close its turnstiles and remain dormant until its spring awakening at the end of the following April . |
| 13 | At the start of the Pilkington Glass Semi-finals , Mrs Thatcher did send a welcoming letter to the grandmasters : ‘ I wish all the players every success but I must send my particular good wishes to Jon Speelman . ’ |
| 14 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 15 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 16 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
| 17 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 18 | However , it did achieve a top speed of 126mph , and cruised at 96mph with a weight of 22,000lb at 2,050ft altitude . |
| 19 | did achieve an apparent dissociation of associative interference and latent inhibition . |
| 20 | It would not be altogether surprising if higher education did inculcate a certain distaste for dirtying one 's hands , for products and things ( money , in this context , is not a thing ) . |
| 21 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 22 | And he did become a chief inspector in eight years . |
| 23 | Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master . |
| 24 | This is not to say that the emergence of more popularly-orientated styles of activity expressed a displacement of sectarian religious feeling but antislavery none the less did become an important channel for religious feeling which looked to a broader moral enhancement of English society and in turn that had to involve the full-hearted commitment of a myriad of individuals and groups . |
| 25 | He always did look a funny sort of chap though did n't he ? |
| 26 | I did work a little while at first with the girl who had the job . |
| 27 | After 300 miles none of our testers reported any discernible wear or compression in either the midsole or the outsole , although one did report a slight separation of the midsole from the outsole around the heel . |
| 28 | It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades . |
| 29 | What did provide a fruitful source of conversation at dinner was the table setting . |
| 30 | After the war it was not possible to maintain national service statistics on the earlier scale , but medical records of school children did provide a comparable measure of national health and fitness . |