Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly , some cynics might say , 49 people did take up the offer and the details were sent to the club to effect the paperwork . |
| 2 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 3 | Some people did feel guilty about having called the police and having stopped the upsurge . |
| 4 | The evaluators found that in some schools library committees had become moribund , and although this was often blamed on industrial action , some people did seem to have lost interest once they had received and spent their grant . |
| 5 | But some people did say that high interest rates were a reason for not using credit cards , personal loans from finance companies , HP or second mortgages for home improvements . |
| 6 | But some people did worry , notably those who argued that Britain , having ruled Hong Kong as a benign dictatorship for more than 140 years , should institute a fully democratic government before 1997 . |
| 7 | The weather prevented many members from attending , but forty-five people did manage to make their way through the fog . |
| 8 | ‘ Just a few people did make that mistake . |
| 9 | ‘ This year 's run was rather windy , ’ he said ‘ and quite a few people did have problems . |
| 10 | However , early people did study those heavenly cycles which were easily discernible within their lifespan . |
| 11 | threatened and awed the jurors to give a verdict for the King , and by unlawful means did surprize the county , that they might not make defence , and did use several menacing wicked speeches and actions to the jury and others , for obtaining his unjust purpose aforesaid . |
| 12 | And enough elderly people did survive as chronically sick , physically maimed , or mentally impaired , to sustain the most negative seventeenth-century images of old age as ‘ a perpetual sickness ’ , ‘ a disease ’ , a time of impotence in the widest sense , ‘ the dregs … of a man 's life ’ . |
| 13 | Not many people did know . |
| 14 | What we do need is the co-operation of the residents , and I must say that we are beginning to get the co-operation now and in fact many people did phone in after the last incident when the officers were assaulted , first of all asking for the condition of the officers and showing concern , and secondly giving us information . |
| 15 | But not many people did see it and he was left with a clutch of good notices , a prospect of the West End which would say no , most times , to the sort of plays he was right for and a generous offer from Anthony Quayle to come back to Shakespeare in Stratford and tackle the next range of roles . |
| 16 | Despite squeezes on capital expenditure in this sector , total sales did increase slightly to £9.3m from £8.3m in 1991 . |
| 17 | In the fourteenth century the Fabian tactics of the chevauchée found greater favour on both sides , although there were notable exceptions when the heavy cavalry did play a major role . |
| 18 | Some Canadian tinned salmon did reach the shops but it was very expensive . |
| 19 | Well several people did bring in board games but Mr Barnes was ‘ too busy ’ to organise us , so we just joined in with whatever we fancied . |
| 20 | And I think se several people did say that . |
| 21 | Coincidentally the Saxon word ‘ Falewesle ’ means the colour of fallow deer and earlier this century a large herd of fallow deer did roam the peaceful parkland . |
| 22 | What the neo-Darwinists have in their favour is almost irrefutable evidence arising from recent advances in the techniques of molecular biology and genetic engineering which virtually prove that modern species did evolve from common ancestors . |
| 23 | Historical evidence suggests that in the past people did share accommodation with their kin , at least on a temporary basis , and they did so essentially for instrumental reasons resulting from social and economic pressures ( Anderson , 1971 ; 1980 ; Davidoff , 1979 ; Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 24 | And in those days most people did have their children at home , did n't they ? |
| 25 | Well most people did have pianos and er practised . |