Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHARP-eyed post room worker Steve Kelly helped prevent a possible £500,000 fraud after spotting a batch of credit cards in Royal Bank window envelopes . |
| 2 | Michel Perie , the boisterous young Toulon prop whose domination of Pascal Ondarts helped provide a platform for his side 's victory , holds aloft the Championship trophy . |
| 3 | The conclusion seems inescapable that the electorate did have a significant impact in determining the composition of the Commons , and therefore the very nature of party strife at Westminster itself . |
| 4 | But Paddington did find a note on the door step asking for two extra pints and things . |
| 5 | Get granddad did have a look at his ears but erm he just had to dropped it erm |
| 6 | Eliot and Pound did establish a poetic revolution , and in the seventies and early eighties the rhetoric of revolution became attractive to anglophone poststructuralists . |
| 7 | The number of times Maguire used the whip made suspension virtually inevitable but the horse did look a difficult ride , drifting right after jumping the last . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the dynamic of four sessions did have a remarkable effect not unassisted by the fact that when Cardinal Montini became Paul VI , this meant that one of the most thoughtful and determined of the moderately progressive conservatives was now pope . |
| 9 | She dwelt on this potential disaster so often , and with such emotion , that eventually a freak electrical fault did cause a fire . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Freud did detect a providential , protective element in the superego . |
| 11 | If yo I hope you , I suppose you could have a whole course in psycho-history , if you really put into it enough , but for just one class , I thought it was too much to ask students to attend , to try and have to get into psycho-history , so I have n't erm , done very much of it , and this , my excuse here really was , well Freud did write a book called Woodrow Wilson . |
| 12 | And during 1907 and 1908 Picasso did produce a handful of wood-carvings ( many of which have the appearance of being unfinished ) , a couple of small bronze heads and masks , and one or two incidental pieces in plaster . |
| 13 | IT is something of a cliche to say that the printed word has faced growing competition from new technology , but throughout the Eighties consumer spending on books did maintain a steady growth . |
| 14 | To convince the reader of my findings in any subsequent report on the study I would have had to show that the points made by my informants did produce a coherent and logical pattern . |
| 15 | Prepared in only a few weeks to satisfy an urgent need for cash on the part of Steinitz , who is building an auction house complex at Saint Ouen in the suburbs of Paris , the auction did have a catalogue covering 352 major items but without printed estimates . |
| 16 | Nevertheless he was in a festering condition , and the murder did induce a crisis . |
| 17 | For had they ruled that a free pardon did quash a conviction , then Waddell 's defence of impeachment , i.e. that Meehan and not he had committed the crime , would have collapsed ; as it was it was greatly strengthened . |
| 18 | His early speeches did include an address on the fiftieth anniversary of the Karachaevo-Cherkessk autonomous region , which was administratively subordinate to Stavropol , and in December 1972 , on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the USSR , an article on the ‘ Great union of friendly peoples ’ appeared in the regional newspaper . |
| 19 | If TI did produce a good underwriting result , one would question whether TI was taking on any risk ? |
| 20 | The NHS did need a kick up the backside , and a lot of us were ( and still are ) far more prepared than you realise to promote any scheme that looks halfway decent . |
| 21 | Although the Duke of Monmouth and a number of other exiles did lead a rebellion in the west country in 1685 , the rebels were unable to gain the support of any men of substance , and the ease with which the rebellion was crushed provides further testimony to the strength of the government 's position at this time . |
| 22 | ( Another mosaic from Middleborough did feature a cantharus whose mouth pointed towards the centre : pl.28a . |
| 23 | But Darwin did draw an explicit analogy between this teleology — of population pressure and sorting , as ensuring adaptation of plant and animal structure to changing conditions — and Malthus 's theistic teleology of superfecundity , as ensuing the energetic dispersal of ancient tribes beyond the original Asian seat of the human species . |
| 24 | This girl did need a woman around her and her brother 's face was a fascinating mixture of satisfaction and irritation . |
| 25 | In the present state of research it is probably fair to suggest that although influence did have a powerful impact on the outcome of a number of elections , on the whole the electorate was not particularly easy to control , and that members of the political elite , despite all their efforts , often failed to achieve their ends . |
| 26 | Despite the deterioration in inter-Korean relations , the two countries did reach an agreement on Feb. 12 to enter joint Korean teams for two international sporting events . |
| 27 | Bridgend did score a good try through Gareth Thomas from a tapped penalty , while at the other end Jones should really have kicked a second penalty after Jenkins had been penalised for treading heavily on Yendle . |
| 28 | Such measures are often not independent , for many lawyers advise clients what it is ‘ reasonable ’ to want , and thus supply the criterion by which they are to be judged ( although Rosenthal did construct an independent measure ) . |
| 29 | Though pond fidelity was what the researchers were primarily interested in , the marking and measuring of individuals in Dorset did provide an unexpected bonus : the largest toads ever recorded in the UK , a male 85mm long , and a giant female 113mm long , almost 15 per cent larger than the previous record . |
| 30 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |