Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another six months I was asked to attend the physiotherapy department for treatment ; this did bring some relief , but only for a matter of hours . |
| 2 | Although this was higher than 13.8 ( 7.7–30.3 ) pg/mg in subjects without symptoms , this did reach statistical significant ( p=0.11 ) . |
| 3 | Of course , after my husband died , I had to find work that would enable me to look after her , and this did seem ideal . " |
| 4 | Dave added : ‘ Everything that could go wrong did go wrong . |
| 5 | Some did fall foul of the constables on a Saturday night . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , it would be misleading to conclude from the relative momentum of change in the three companies that RX alone represents success , not least because all three did achieve significant business turnaround as a result of organizational realignment . |
| 7 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 8 | In fact , only 154 cars were treated thus , but these did include four ex-Croydon cars . |
| 9 | But the Second International did debate two questions which Marx and Engels left unresolved . |
| 10 | In the event , empirical work in general ( as noted above ) does not appear to confirm the presence of large disincentive effects , although for negative income tax ( NIT ) , experiments in the USA undertaken in the 1970s did produce significant negative-work-hours responses of the order of 7 per cent reduction for males , 25 per cent for wives and 15 per cent for female heads of households ( see Robins and West 1980 ) . |
| 11 | If we , with our feeble skills and instruments had brought back ten men from the seeming dead , I understand all did get well , what could Almighty God do if He had a mind to do something similar ? |
| 12 | He had very long hair at the time and a beard , Lewis remembered , and looked as they all did like some kind of weird prophet . |
| 13 | We 've budgeted this year , er , for a maximum of six , but as Committee were informed at the last meeting , that number has exceeded during the year , erm , and that did create some financial difficulties , but that is the budget for specifically for six out-county placements , which not only do grown people in specialist er , accommodation such as secure accommodation , but also younger children with disabilities . |
| 14 | That did seem impossible . |
| 15 | Now , that did sound irresponsible ! |
| 16 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 17 | A further Committee in 1846 did get some results . |
| 18 | Unlike Scotland , where incest was punishable by death up to 1887 , or several American states , England had no civil law on incest in the nineteenth century , although the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 did include incestuous adultery as grounds for divorce . |