Example sentences of "[noun prp] did [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lieutenant Denholm did explain the dangers to you ? ’ |
| 2 | Celtic did have the ball in the net in ten minutes , but Frank McAvennie was clearly offside when he pounced to beat Theo Smelders from eight yards . |
| 3 | But Nigel did take the time to explain that b that basically this was the , the , the view that the new directive would take place keeping it simple . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't really say about that , ’ she said , ‘ but — ’ launching into a text learned by heart — ‘ although guilty of many deviations from Marxism-Leninism and Socialist legality , Stalin did lead the heroic resistance of the Soviet peoples in the anti-Fascist war . ’ |
| 5 | Yes , Pete did do the washing up while you were out — we would n't have expected you to do it . |
| 6 | Lord Salisbury did offer the Rolls to Clarke , who declined it on the ground that it would put an end to his political career , though he added that he would accept being made a Law Lord . |
| 7 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 8 | ‘ The point is , I rang the accommodation warden just to check ; Matthew did visit the old boy every Sunday but he never spent more than half an hour with him . |
| 9 | But all the jollity does n't totally obscure his illegal activities ; Lovejoy did begin the previous series with a spell in jail . |
| 10 | Clearly , then , Professor Usher remains convinced that the baby had at least an 80% chance of survival , and that Leonard Arthur did prescribe the drug with the intention of causing the child 's death , especially in view of Dr Arthur 's comments on his philosophical attitude to this type of situation . |
| 11 | That apart , South Africa did give the best two sides in the world a game . |
| 12 | ‘ the burden is upon the defendant , Mr. Smith , to satisfy the court on the balance of probabilities that Mr. Winterbone did have the necessary capacity . |
| 13 | Mind you , Ralph did go the whole hog with it : he got Gaby Sturmer as PR doing photographs and write-ups and turned out some lovely leaflets . |
| 14 | Mind you , Malcolm did take the piss out of him as well , calling him Troy Tempest in a leather jacket . |
| 15 | He claimed that he had been ‘ the master of ceremonies ’ , but The Builder report indicates that this role was carried out by Tite , although if Scott 's previous conclusion was correct , Donaldson did organize the delegation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |
| 18 | Velazquez did know the laws of perspective |
| 19 | But Kambli did beat the previous highest made against England by an Indian , Gundappa Vishwanath 's 222 in 1981-82 . |
| 20 | Galileo did have the insight to perceive that the effect was probably the same as that when a drop of water would remain on a cabbage leaf . |
| 21 | Shropshire did have the services of the former Worcestershire seam bowler Paul Pridgeon at the start of the season , but a breakdown in mutual respect ended that relationship . |
| 22 | However , Richard Baxter did see the Bishop , and , even though he was n't arrested , the Bishop forbade him to preach in his diocese . |
| 23 | But whereas the year before the absence of yellowing was proof that Britain did not have the same forest decline as in Europe , its discovery did not show that Britain did have the same forest decline . |
| 24 | At that time it was still believed that Mercury did keep the same face to the Sun , and therefore this temperature was used to support the idea that Mercury had an atmosphere , because such an atmosphere would transport heat around from the Sun-facing side , thus raising the night-side temperature . |
| 25 | Green was fulsome in his praise for Barker 's determined and generous efforts to reach an equitable settlement and it is possible that Green did acquaint the Chairman of the RAC with the unhappy position in Bedfordshire . |
| 26 | The DNSF did win the vote , however , on simultaneous legislative and presidential elections , whereas Petre Roman 's rival National Salvation Front had called for separate election dates . |
| 27 | Contrary to some past reports , the electronic equipment aboard the HMS Sheffield did detect the approaching missile . |
| 28 | Although , IMR90 and HUVEC did yield the predicted 276 bp product for the AD1 internal primer pair and the 371 bp 5' flanking product , the mRNA from these normal cells did not reveal the presence of detectable levels of the 3' product suggesting that either repeat 11 alone or both AD1 and type III repeat 11 were spliced in normal cell lines ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 29 | But suppose Arabella did try the light , and it did n't work . |
| 30 | Swindon did see the good times . |