Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This interpretation was already being undermined in the 1830s as new evidence showed that the geographical provinces did indeed extend some way back into the past . |
| 2 | Since dictionaries are in fact prescriptive , whatever they may claim , there is no point in their including non-prestige usages and words like fuck which everyone knows the meaning of ( though the Oxford English Dictionary did finally capitulate and put fuck in , as a gesture toward inclusive scholarship ) . |
| 3 | During 1986 , Mr Scott did once enter the kitchen , and when he did not see his wife assumed she was visiting relatives . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the general contraction of the industry did further damage to its already shrivelled morale . |
| 5 | Dot did still have the garden with her . |
| 6 | As I said , I thought at first that the no boundary condition did indeed imply that disorder would decrease in the contracting phase . |
| 7 | Then an on-road study found that drivers did indeed recall more central details than would be expected from risky situations . |
| 8 | Thus , if the parties did actually turn their minds to the possibility that such things might happen ( e.g. that the goods might perish ) and provided in the contract for that eventuality , then the effect of the event occurring will be whatever is stated in their contract . |
| 9 | The mermaid did indeed return to claim Lutey and it is said that every nine years hence , one of his descendants is lost at sea . |
| 10 | Er , paragraph four Chairman , is the point that Policy and Resources when it was addressing the fact that all of the proposals from committees that 's currently within the guidelines did still leave a shortfall between projected expenditure of the County Council and the capping limit . |
| 11 | The published Programme did still commit the party to communism as an ‘ historic perspective ’ , but this , as the Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov commented , was very much in the spirit of an ‘ epitaph on a tombstone ’ . |
| 12 | The chorus of primitive tragedy did indeed have such a basis . |
| 13 | Her smile was luxurious , and as her eyes did briefly meet Alice 's , she seemed actually to be tantalising and teasing . |
| 14 | And in between Terry 's forays into various shops did indeed view the bizarre remains in St Peter 's Church . |
| 15 | And that Parisian modernism did indeed represent a deepening Enlightenment rationality . |
| 16 | The first indication that the fourth upsilon did indeed decay into B mesons came when the team working on the detector known as CLEO discovered energetic electrons and muons , presumably from the decays of B mesons ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 776 ) . |
| 17 | Significantly the dream of an Imperial organic entity perished on the very battlefields of Flanders where the self-governing Dominions did apparently fight ‘ for their common interests ’ : |
| 18 | Now my relationship with David did actually include sex , but it was never initiated on that basis as he 'd come to my flat only as a lodger and during the course of the time he was there , we slept together . |
| 19 | ‘ Nevertheless , it was not until September 18 that a decision was made that a section 105 investigation should be recommended by the Minister and the submissions to that effect did no reach him until October 13 , ’ says Sir Anthony . |
| 20 | It is then for the prosecutor to prove that the defendant did so intend or was aware . |
| 21 | As a postscript to this , Paul 's wedding did finally come to pass . |
| 22 | The implication would seem to be that the opposition fans had better watch out because Blackpool fans might not be restricted by normal conventions . |
| 23 | The reader is both astonished and utterly convinced , as he is later on in the interview when Porfiry plays the dangerous game of saying he has got no real proof , he 's going on hunch and ‘ psychology ’ — so Raskolnikov had better confess . |
| 24 | My present feeling is that any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody had better confine his criticism to prose and leave the discussion of verse to those who understand something about it … . |
| 25 | The proportion of French visitors did indeed rise . |
| 26 | The proposal did however offer a good measure against which the visits could be set . |
| 27 | In Berry 's case , English law did certainly provide for one level of appeal to the Court of Appeal and may have provided one level of appeal beyond that . |
| 28 | ‘ The law did sometimes make an ass of itself , ’ said Sir Nicholas Lyell . |
| 29 | The steering committee did however recommend the appointment of a Prime Minister , and provision for greater freedom of information . |
| 30 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |