Example sentences of "did [verb] a [adj] [noun] [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 | They were the first big fish I tried to catch when I decided to be more selective with my fishing , and when I did catch a big chub on my first attempt it set the scene for my present angling outlook . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | When it had grown older it did show a little interest in females and even deigned to mate with a few , though never with much enthusiasm . |
| 13 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , it did achieve a top speed of 126mph , and cruised at 96mph with a weight of 22,000lb at 2,050ft altitude . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | And he did become a chief inspector in eight years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is apparent , however , that at the " Music and Tragedy " stage of his thinking , Nietzsche did envisage a larger role for specifically Wagnerian matter than eventually materialized . " |
| 21 | He always did look a funny sort of chap though did n't he ? |
| 22 | I did work a little while at first with the girl who had the job . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What did provide a fruitful source of conversation at dinner was the table setting . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There was no sign of one , but Ace did discover a locked section of one case which , upon being broken open , proved to contain the sort of books which one certainly did n't find in the local W H Smiths . |
| 28 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 29 | His death would have been diagnosed as extreme negligence as although Roger did drop a huge stone on him , he did not mean to kill him . |
| 30 | Classic FM was not a competitor for Independent Local Radio stations , but those stations did face a significant threat from tycoon Richard Branson 's national commercial rock station , Virgin 1215 . |