Example sentences of "[noun] did [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the home side did look capable of winning the tie in the second half . |
| 2 | Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south , although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there . |
| 3 | Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south , although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there . |
| 4 | In Vienna the Secession did win representative status from the Austrian government and was , for example , able to mount exhibitions in foreign expositions . |
| 5 | But your eyes did look blue actually . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , this particular Conservative administration did offer social policies which were designed both to indicate its commitment to dealing with social problems and to undermine the challenge of Labour . |
| 7 | Er , Professor did say final words of aspiration , and I sha n't talk on aspirations , I was interested in it , and although I talked the empirical linguis linguisism . |
| 8 | He subjected quantities of quartz crystal to pressures similar to those occurring in active fault zones in the Earth 's crust , and he found that the piezo-electric effect did induce visible ionisation of the surrounding air , just as Persinger predicted . |
| 9 | Despite a concomitant drop in household disposable incomes , some sectors did report significant increases in spending — during the third quarter of 1989 , new car registrations recorded 20-30 per cent rises above levels in previous years . |
| 10 | But the first visitors did find intelligent life within the planet , in a vast hallowed-out area that has as much land area as some smaller worlds . |
| 11 | Section 19 of the Act did protect rural areas from the immediate profiteering resale of houses in attractive areas , for example in small rural estates or in lone rural settings . |
| 12 | PBL from the patient who did not produce toxoplasma antibodies did produce anti-HIV-1 antibodies , but at a much lower level than in other patients in this group ( HIV-1-specific ELISA index 1.85 ) . |
| 13 | Although these measures were not especially radical in themselves , the Act against pluralism did infringe ecclesiastical immunity from secular jurisdiction , as offenders were to be prosecuted in royal rather than ecclesiastical courts . |
| 14 | ‘ As the Sun now recognises , the publication did cause personal offence to the Queen but it also caused offence amongst those who prefer to hear or see Her Majesty 's Christmas Message for the first time on Christmas Day . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless , this roughly delineated period did see major transformations in the role of sexuality , and the book , as a whole , traces some of the major shifts in this process . |
| 16 | However , Webern 's Six Orchestral Pieces and Berg 's Songs to Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg did pose acute problems for listeners . |
| 17 | The perspective may not have developed antagonistic elements to the extent to which , at a generalised level , it could have been a genuine challenge to extant political power , but the populism did articulate working-class interests and demands assertively and independently . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the company 's financial controller said that , if one looked at the methods used by the cost accountant at the pre-investment ( i.e. product-design ) stage , it was clear that the notions of activity-based costing did receive careful consideration , before approval of the product design and projected product prices used in the investment appraisal . |
| 19 | However , the majority of studies did show increased adhesiveness in diabetic subjects with ( Valdorf-Hansen , 1967 ; Badawi et al , 1970 ; Hellem , 1971 ) and without ( Shaw et al , 1967 ; Hellem , 1971 ) vascular disease . |
| 20 | If things did go wrong , especially during recording , it was counted major disaster , increasing proportionately in scale the nearer to 10.00 pm the clock ticked . |
| 21 | But in nineteen seventy nine things did go wrong . |
| 22 | Things did go wrong … she 'd trusted in the powers of justice and compassion before , and she 'd lost her mother … she 'd trusted Mortimer with her friendship and he 'd betrayed her … trusted Guy with the whole of her heart and soul last night and all the time he 'd been laughing behind her back at the ‘ sexy redhead ’ from Chesters … |
| 23 | They found that more than half their sample did have previous admissions within the preceding year . |
| 24 | I wanted to tell him that the proletariat of the suburbs did have strong class feeling . |
| 25 | The substitution did seem strange as I could n't see why Wallace was being taken off and not Deane ( or a defender ) . |
| 26 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 27 | I have had the great privilege to know some very talented young people whose dreams did come true . |
| 28 | In Laura 's world dreams did come true . |
| 29 | The final effect of the First World War was less tangible , the impact of war on the attitudes of Unionists themselves , but there is no doubt that the holocaust did leave lasting effects . |
| 30 | Yet as we shall see , the Famine did produce considerable horizontal side-effects between one province and another . |