Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , Van Basten did return late from the treatment room to score crucial goals in West Germany last summer . |
| 2 | Once Auntie Jean did rip through to raw feeling by mentioning the numerous virtues of her former Tory boy , but Ted retaliated by saying ( one evening during his vow of silence ) , ‘ That boy soon saw the light as far as you 're concerned , did n't he ? ’ |
| 3 | But the Moray Firth experiments were only possible after the naturalist Dr David Bellamy helped secure a donation from the Co-operative Wholesale Society . |
| 4 | Bobby Locke did top the Order of Merit in 1946 , 1950 and 1954 , and the only other South African to do so was Dale Hayes in 1975 . |
| 5 | The ANC , the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) , the Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) , the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the churches all stayed away , as did the main white opposition , the Conservative Party , although the small , neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement led by Eugene Terreblanche did attend . |
| 6 | However , Richard Baxter did see the Bishop , and , even though he was n't arrested , the Bishop forbade him to preach in his diocese . |
| 7 | Curry played on that sense of panic when intimately caught with the money-grabbing Spettigue ( Patrick Cargill ) or the more civilised Sir Francis Chesney ( Frank Windsor ) who eventually found his long lost love when the real Donna Lucia did arrive . |
| 8 | Mother Francis did want everything that might help to push Eve up some kind of ladder . |
| 9 | Miss Logan did win one small , final argument — by forceful gesture rather than words — and Miss Fergusson was left with both bottles of molten snow . |
| 10 | At the end of one particularly painful lesson , Miss Hatherby did release them and they stalked the room stiffly , pecking at the furniture and flapping their wings , to Constance 's great delight . |
| 11 | The expert 's report dated 26 April 1989 concluded that there was a high probability that Mrs. Steed did sign the transfer . |
| 12 | However , Pedro Collor did claim that Farias , through a mutual friend , had attempted to bribe him with US$25,000,000 to leave the country until the end of President Collor 's term of office in 1995 . |
| 13 | On subsequent visits to Spain Minton did reveal enough knowledge of Spanish to engage locals in conversations in bars , but in 1949 the only Spanish Bernard heard him say was ‘ No , melón ! ’ to a waiter . |
| 14 | ‘ Dr Markham did take me , but he was the obvious person to do so , especially as he works there . ’ |
| 15 | A police spokesman said Saints ' midfielder Terry Hurlock was set upon inside the club and former Arsenal forward Perry Groves helped restrain the attacker . |
| 16 | ‘ But apparently , ’ Mrs Baggley returned to her previous committed tones , ‘ one phrase used by Canon Wheeler did strike her . ’ |
| 17 | Charities throughout County Durham and North Yorkshire helped buy the machine which will test the hearing of babies and mentally handicapped people . |
| 18 | None dared approach him closely , although Alexander Ramsay did follow him heedfully some way behind . |
| 19 | Even if Dr Kingdom did feel more for Heather than a doctor should for his patient , it does n't mean that had anything to do with her disappearance . ’ |
| 20 | That apart , South Africa did give the best two sides in the world a game . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , Messrs Jarvis did produce an ingenious creature which , with its standard outer case , would have fooled even Burke and Hare . |
| 22 | Sabine Jourdain was doing most of Durance 's work , Benedict Joseph did have a motive to kill her . ’ |
| 23 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
| 24 | There is , in fact , no proof that Christopher Columbus did stay in the house , only tradition . |
| 25 | Perhaps to some extent in response to this letter and certainly with the decrees of the Frankish synod of 747 in mind , Archbishop Cuthbert did hold a synod at Clofesho in 747 , attended by all the bishops of the southern province of the Anglo-Saxon Church , in the presence of King Aethelbald . |
| 26 | The band also cancelled a scheduled performance of their forthcoming single ‘ Friday I 'm In Love ’ on Top Of The Pops , although bass player Simon Gallup and keyboard player Perry Bamonte did introduce the promo video for the single on the programme . |
| 27 | ‘ Heather Mallender did dine here about three months ago , Mr Barnett , it 's true , but so what ? |
| 28 | In 1913 , Liam Murphy did sail for New York without Nellie , promising to send for her ‘ as soon as he was settled ’ but Nessie O'Neil was n't sure and took her daughter home with her to the farm ‘ for company ’ . |
| 29 | While conceding her part in the enterprise was not as extensive as her paramour accomplice , Judge Kenneth Rubin did say , ‘ Quite clearly you were not a passive person . ’ |
| 30 | Kenneth Graham did come to visit quite a lot between 1880 and 1910 . ) |