Example sentences of "[noun] they did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite being easy trips they did have a valuable effect on crews . |
| 2 | Although local authority staff and councillors accepted that Review Boards could not be truly independent , members feel that in practice they did act independently ; |
| 3 | Of course you could once , when they knew their place ( ’ The poor will long remember / The kind repast they did enjoy / On the 24th of September ’ ) . |
| 4 | Exactly what duties they did perform she was uncertain but in matters of law and order it was Christie Goldsborough , and only Christie Goldsborough , who sat in judgement here . |
| 5 | And I looked at people I passed a bit more , and all of a sudden they did seem nice and smiled back . |
| 6 | For a number of years they did have but er |
| 7 | Well I strange erm accusation yes we will be , we would keep the council tax down if I am that that would be a popular message to give out and so having accepted our below er the guideline figures they did take this into consideration but we have a budget that has elements of growth in industry . |
| 8 | Er , one thing I think we highlighted after the meeting with the they 're sort of working awareness of the setup in Lincolnshire , if you look at the er , structure of the er , commission , one from personnel , chief executives They did seem to have er , very little knowledge of a rural shire county . |
| 9 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 10 | apart from the fact by the wayside they did respond immediately . |
| 11 | Neither group had the bilingual competence which could form a sound basis for interpreter training but it is easy to forget what a considerable achievement the language skills they did possess demonstrated . |
| 12 | Perhaps a more sensitive test would be to examine the writings of puritans who did take an interest in science in seventeenth-century England to see what connections they did make in their schemes for reform . |
| 13 | In the end they did come out , were pursued to the south-east down the coast of Brittany , and eventually were overtaken in Quiberon Bay . |
| 14 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 15 | On the other hand they did mean that the defendant had considerable mitigation . |
| 16 | Er the ones they did ride were the ones they used to drive at erm ah , down the two jars but er and that was a completely different way of life then to what that is now . |
| 17 | I ca n't help but wonder why on earth they did have a different strip for the World Cup . |
| 18 | But this time they did turn in between the lion-surmounted gateposts . |
| 19 | But in fact they did care , because if they had n't the traumas that afflicted Welsh rugby at about this time would have had not effect . |
| 20 | This booklet was distributed just before met , so in fact er , paragraph two does say at the moment that in our new recommended programme there is n't , well in fact they did agree those recommendations . |
| 21 | And on the occasions they did manage to create openings , they found Goram in outstanding form . |
| 22 | On one or two occasions they did manage to meet alone , but Stapleton followed them and was not pleased to see them together . |
| 23 | So on the rare occasions they did report themselves in a State of Readiness they knew an Agile Blade was likely . |
| 24 | , but I 'm not surprised , so , erm , in our previous visit they did give us |