Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHARP-eyed post room worker Steve Kelly helped prevent a possible £500,000 fraud after spotting a batch of credit cards in Royal Bank window envelopes . |
| 2 | Michel Perie , the boisterous young Toulon prop whose domination of Pascal Ondarts helped provide a platform for his side 's victory , holds aloft the Championship trophy . |
| 3 | But Paddington did find a note on the door step asking for two extra pints and things . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Freud did detect a providential , protective element in the superego . |
| 5 | If yo I hope you , I suppose you could have a whole course in psycho-history , if you really put into it enough , but for just one class , I thought it was too much to ask students to attend , to try and have to get into psycho-history , so I have n't erm , done very much of it , and this , my excuse here really was , well Freud did write a book called Woodrow Wilson . |
| 6 | And during 1907 and 1908 Picasso did produce a handful of wood-carvings ( many of which have the appearance of being unfinished ) , a couple of small bronze heads and masks , and one or two incidental pieces in plaster . |
| 7 | If TI did produce a good underwriting result , one would question whether TI was taking on any risk ? |
| 8 | The NHS did need a kick up the backside , and a lot of us were ( and still are ) far more prepared than you realise to promote any scheme that looks halfway decent . |
| 9 | ( Another mosaic from Middleborough did feature a cantharus whose mouth pointed towards the centre : pl.28a . |
| 10 | But Darwin did draw an explicit analogy between this teleology — of population pressure and sorting , as ensuring adaptation of plant and animal structure to changing conditions — and Malthus 's theistic teleology of superfecundity , as ensuing the energetic dispersal of ancient tribes beyond the original Asian seat of the human species . |
| 11 | Bridgend did score a good try through Gareth Thomas from a tapped penalty , while at the other end Jones should really have kicked a second penalty after Jenkins had been penalised for treading heavily on Yendle . |
| 12 | Such measures are often not independent , for many lawyers advise clients what it is ‘ reasonable ’ to want , and thus supply the criterion by which they are to be judged ( although Rosenthal did construct an independent measure ) . |
| 13 | Though pond fidelity was what the researchers were primarily interested in , the marking and measuring of individuals in Dorset did provide an unexpected bonus : the largest toads ever recorded in the UK , a male 85mm long , and a giant female 113mm long , almost 15 per cent larger than the previous record . |
| 14 | It is apparent , however , that at the " Music and Tragedy " stage of his thinking , Nietzsche did envisage a larger role for specifically Wagnerian matter than eventually materialized . " |
| 15 | This current England side is excellent and , yes , England did complete a back-to-back Grand Slam which Wales did not . |
| 16 | But the Moray Firth experiments were only possible after the naturalist Dr David Bellamy helped secure a donation from the Co-operative Wholesale Society . |
| 17 | ‘ Sean and Cathal did record a demo , ’ he claimed , ‘ but it was a bit of a mess and the latest news is that they might try again , maybe in September . ’ |
| 18 | There was no sign of one , but Ace did discover a locked section of one case which , upon being broken open , proved to contain the sort of books which one certainly did n't find in the local W H Smiths . |
| 19 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 20 | Still , the fact remains that Tolkien did produce a narrative of entrelacement . |
| 21 | Yeo did announce a further three years funding worth £440,000 for First Key , the charity which advises councils on aftercare services for young people . |
| 22 | Marriage perhaps played a less important part in the network of Rational Dissent in the late eighteenth century , though Josiah Wedgwood did become a relation by marriage to Sir James Mackintosh and thus in touch with the world of Brougham and the Edinburgh Review . |
| 23 | Lifelong friend Stan Cardwell said that when youth hostels were first set up in 1930s , Mr Lear helped form a Darlington branch and often used the hostels in his cross country expeditions . |
| 24 | Dame Catherine did have a lecherous look in her eyes . |
| 25 | It is of course true that the coming of Jesus did bring a fire upon the earth , a fire of judgment ; men judged themselves by their response to him . |
| 26 | In fact , Botham did have an excuse , in that before the match he had received a death threat . |
| 27 | Bevin did have a view of Europe , but it was a limited one conditioned by pragmatism and scepticism . |
| 28 | In this case I am satisfied that Booth J. did have a discretion to take into account the interests of the children . |
| 29 | Edberg and Sweden did stage a solid comeback — their first from a 0–2 deficit in 46 years — but not before Nestor and the ABB Canadian Davis Cup team had captured the public 's imagination of a northern nation better known for its ice hockey , snow skiing and figure skating , than for its tennis exploits . |
| 30 | But there were moments when he almost wished that what was happening between Maisie and Mr Malik did have a sexual connotation . |