Example sentences of "[noun sg] did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse did well to catch him , ’ said Steve . |
| 2 | It was a fair result , because I did not think either side did enough to win . ’ |
| 3 | Since dictionaries are in fact prescriptive , whatever they may claim , there is no point in their including non-prestige usages and words like fuck which everyone knows the meaning of ( though the Oxford English Dictionary did finally capitulate and put fuck in , as a gesture toward inclusive scholarship ) . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the general contraction of the industry did further damage to its already shrivelled morale . |
| 5 | Dot did still have the garden with her . |
| 6 | As I said , I thought at first that the no boundary condition did indeed imply that disorder would decrease in the contracting phase . |
| 7 | The mermaid did indeed return to claim Lutey and it is said that every nine years hence , one of his descendants is lost at sea . |
| 8 | The published Programme did still commit the party to communism as an ‘ historic perspective ’ , but this , as the Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov commented , was very much in the spirit of an ‘ epitaph on a tombstone ’ . |
| 9 | The chorus of primitive tragedy did indeed have such a basis . |
| 10 | And that Parisian modernism did indeed represent a deepening Enlightenment rationality . |
| 11 | The first indication that the fourth upsilon did indeed decay into B mesons came when the team working on the detector known as CLEO discovered energetic electrons and muons , presumably from the decays of B mesons ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 776 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Nevertheless , it was not until September 18 that a decision was made that a section 105 investigation should be recommended by the Minister and the submissions to that effect did no reach him until October 13 , ’ says Sir Anthony . |
| 13 | It is then for the prosecutor to prove that the defendant did so intend or was aware . |
| 14 | As a postscript to this , Paul 's wedding did finally come to pass . |
| 15 | The proposal did however offer a good measure against which the visits could be set . |
| 16 | In Berry 's case , English law did certainly provide for one level of appeal to the Court of Appeal and may have provided one level of appeal beyond that . |
| 17 | ‘ The law did sometimes make an ass of itself , ’ said Sir Nicholas Lyell . |
| 18 | The steering committee did however recommend the appointment of a Prime Minister , and provision for greater freedom of information . |
| 19 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 20 | Was it perhaps because the work did indeed look like typewriting ( by this time neither a highly paid nor a highly regarded occupation and mostly done by women ) and therefore an effeminate calling and beneath a man 's dignity ? |
| 21 | X-ray fluorescence ( XRE ) analysis ( see glossary ) of solders used on Roman silver suggests that the Roman silversmith did indeed use several different solders which could have given him a working temperature range from the melting point of silver ( 960°C ) , down to 180°C . |
| 22 | The sermon did indeed make me feel superior : ‘ I know what the preacher means by ‘ the concept of the body in Romans 12 ’ . |
| 23 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 24 | The Sept. 3-4 meeting did successfully negotiate , however , an agreement on the transfer of servicemen from the former Soviet armed forces to the armed forces of individual CIS member states , and agreements on other defence-related issues . |
| 25 | But whatever talents she had once had , she had now turned ferociously against them , whereas her husband did still pay a curious self-willed homage to the intellectual virtues ; he possessed an 1895 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which he would , from time to time , read . |
| 26 | The widest commercial usage of the word ‘ media ’ in the post-war period did indeed refer to just that . |
| 27 | The comment had some truth in it , in that the heroine did indeed have an equine cast of feature , but he made it too often , and with too little variation ; however , she was willing to forgive him , in view of his evident tolerance of her own social errors , such as an inability to say whether or not she wanted an ice cream . |
| 28 | The outcome was , however , a foregone conclusion ; at no point did there exist the slightest possibility that the Law would not be approved . |
| 29 | Search consultants themselves claimed that their business did markedly increase — in the number of new clients as well as in terms of the number of individual assignments — as a result of the Big Bang , and that the level of their work has continued to grow steadily , in spite of subsequent national economic changes . |
| 30 | The concept was devised , or evolved , to describe an evolving reality — the kind of city-state in which the citizen body did actually govern itself . |