Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HSMorris Bristol PS I did find the article amusing and am no less a woman because I did . |
| 2 | I did n't want his title or his money , although I must say in all honesty I did enjoy the London season . |
| 3 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 4 | The only , the only bit I did find was the very last part during the course did n't sound as natural as the rest of it . |
| 5 | I was scolded for an hour by Bessie as the most ungrateful child in the world , and indeed with so much hate in my heart I did feel wicked . |
| 6 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 7 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 8 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 9 | Despite the failings of the course I did have an excellent time and was not put off continuing with chemistry . |
| 10 | Although it is not a mountain tent I did take it on a high camp with a family group . |
| 11 | And , ’ he added with a malevolent glint in his eyes , ‘ at your interview I did point out that I was n't offering a nine-to-five sinecure . ’ |
| 12 | Well , a side which did win and won well ; Bicester against Swindon Athletic in the Hellenic League premier division ; Bicester six , Swindon Athletic one , to tell us about it , Charlie Rawling . |
| 13 | Moreover , that those increases in recorded crime which did occur came after the onset of the panic . |
| 14 | The 29.5 per cent of the electorate who did vote Tory under the circumstances of February 1974 must have known what they were doing — contesting the ‘ unconstitutional claims of the disruptive sectional union interests ’ — but they did not form a sufficiently large social bloc . |
| 15 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 16 | You actually make up a structure like this tetraneedle carbon we did have another one but er , obviously there 's some students have erm decided to do something different with the er things that 's all that 's left ! |
| 17 | Although local authority staff and councillors accepted that Review Boards could not be truly independent , members feel that in practice they did act independently ; |
| 18 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 19 | On the credit side it did allow the rear axle of the tug to be the full width of the vehicle , giving more stability , as did the final ‘ Wolverton ’ design . |
| 20 | He was vaguely surprised that what sense of loss he did have seemed to be connected in some way with Cyprus . |
| 21 | There were some fragments of my education in English Literature which did return to me . |
| 22 | It must be borne in mind that the majority of these data have been derived from subjects younger than 65 years ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) so that the effect of hypotensive drugs in the older age-groups regardless of their blood-pressure status was largely unknown until the recent publication of the European Working Party Trial which did show significant benefits in the elderly ( Amery et al , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | However , in compensation I did find a nice silver hammered halfpenny of Henry V and a few rose farthings . |
| 24 | One question I did ask at the Fire and Public Protection Committees what happens when you do n't , when we bring in a unity authority status . |
| 25 | Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan . |
| 26 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 27 | And he 'd got a boy who did stutter and he always used to go to granddad before er he when he came to school , before lessons and he 'd give him this pebble and he 'd say , now you can put it in your pocket . |
| 28 | She did n't find it , but buried right down at the bottom she did find a tape cassette in a box . |
| 29 | Now that is the accepted way of doing it , and I can not see any reason why that can not be done , erm in Greater York , once the location for the new settlement is erm er is identified , erm so that 's my definition of erm integrated and balanced community , it 's a concept , you ca n't define , I do n't think , integrated and balanced separately , you need to bind them together er into into some erm er or all er erm concept , erm now the erm the question you did pose me , sir , which er I did take a note of , but I wonder if you 'd be kind enough to repeat it so I 've I 've a I 've a got it quite clear before I respond . |
| 30 | And then that one conservative who did go and do it , he swapped places with people who were on the dole , and he went and lived up in Newcastle . |