Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm afraid that did put me off . |
| 2 | It was not a good year for them to start with , and this year 's explosion in grey squirrel numbers seems to have put paid to the few that did form . |
| 3 | Yeah I mean but on the other hand the there 's probably quite a few that did read it . |
| 4 | The few that did live near the quarry tended to wander off hurriedly in the opposite direction whenever they saw a nome . |
| 5 | And Moses was well peeved and did lose his rag saying , ‘ Thou shalt not Rock ‘ n ’ Roll , for this is the eleventh commandment … ’ |
| 6 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 7 | While believing that few teachers were intentionally racist , and while not accepting that racism was the sole cause of West Indian underachievement , the committee concluded that unintentional racism ( in the sense of stereotyped , negative or patronising views of West Indian children ) was widespread and did influence children 's performance . |
| 8 | Matadial 's statement of 12 January 1987 , like her deposition , did not mention the conversations in 1986 but did refer to that of 9 January 1987 , but her account in the statement of her telephone call on 11 January was that , when her husband gave her the receiver , she recognised the voice of the defendant who said , ‘ I have just shot Paulette . |
| 9 | While this was useful and did hold the attention of members interested in the specific subjects being examined , the subcommittees moved from one area of expenditure to another each session so that they developed no expertise and could not follow up previous work . |
| 10 | Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism . |
| 11 | Those that did rally were special situations , such as Cable & Wireless which jumped 7p to 649p after a 7% profits rise at half-way . |
| 12 | Loads of them , with varying degrees of politeness , refused to have anything to do with us , and , of those that did reply , over half ( see pages 34 to 37 ) appear to loathe , despise and abominate us . |
| 13 | ‘ The place is like a morgue most of those that did come are moaning bastards . |
| 14 | While the negotiability of international bills of exchange was recognized as early as 1603 , and of domestic bills less than a hundred years later , Chief Justice Holt refused to extend the principle to promissory notes , which ‘ are only an invention of the goldsmiths in Lombard Street , who had a mind to make a law to bind all those that did deal with them ’ . |
| 15 | And those that did have a cuckoo in their nest could have succumbed to it and still lived to rear another brood next season . |
| 16 | Those that did turn up enjoyed the jovial atmosphere and frantic dancing ensued , except at the home-town concert in Middleton . |
| 17 | Of those that did turn up at their parish churches , a good number behaved in a manner that was anything but reverential : talking , joking , spitting , arguing , and catching up on lost sleep . |
| 18 | Those that did write back stated that they were very happy with their present designs . |
| 19 | Those that did criticize or review the film , while being in total agreement with the mainstream that it was a ‘ good film ’ , were unable to find any particularly political reasons for such valuations . |
| 20 | In Julius Caesar Calphurnia dreamed she saw Caesar 's statue which " like a fountain with an hundred spouts , did run pure blood ; and many lusty Romans came smiling and did bathe their hands in it " . |
| 21 | Jenny Holland , who shared a flat at university with Sarah , told the hearing she was quiet but did get on with her fellow students . |