Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not every Merovingian queen was as forceful as Fredegund , and the sons of various queens or concubines did inherit at the same time . |
| 2 | Bitter correspondence in July and August failed to resolve the dispute although Smith & Jones did make a without prejudice offer of £500 ( in respect of the two deliveries which were made on time without damaged goods ) to settle the matter . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | First , although rejecting the explanation of creativity that prevailed among medical writers at that time , both Ellis and Bowerman did consider that there was some connection with psychological morbidity , in a more general sense . |
| 5 | ‘ But officials in the Department of Trade and Industry did try to intervene . |
| 6 | Eliot and Pound did establish a poetic revolution , and in the seventies and early eighties the rhetoric of revolution became attractive to anglophone poststructuralists . |
| 7 | The A four one three in Buckinghamshire at Dunton turn between Winslow and Whitchurch did see two mile tailbacks earlier on this afternoon , at that was Aylesbury-bound due to the accident involving a car on fire . |
| 8 | Post-MacBride , Yeats revived his suit and , according to Yeatsians , he and Maud did sleep together once , c 1907 . |
| 9 | ( And the western Greeks tended to make their dedications at the nearest of the Greek sanctuaries of the mainland , Olympia , rather than creating or patronizing a big cult centre of their own , ) Fifth-century Italy and Sicily did produce historians , like Hippys of Rhegion , or Antiochus and Philistus of Syracuse , the ‘ Sicilian Herodotus and the Sicilian Thucydides ’ ; even Dionysius I , tyrant of Syracuse from the late fifth century to 367 , wrote history as well as the tragedies and comedies for which he was , as we shall see , more famous . |
| 10 | Despite these problems of appointments arid salaries , the great majority of the senior managers and engineers did join the new nationalised organisations . |
| 11 | What Easy Rider and Nicholson did capture was the mood in America and elsewhere at that time . |
| 12 | Brenda was a youthful veteran of package tours where groups and singers did brief sets of their big hits , and can recall touring Britain in 1964 with Manfred Mann , Marty Wilde , and Johnny Kidd & the Pirates . |
| 13 | In the end Barry and Helen did separate and eventually they divorced . |
| 14 | But hundreds of shoppers and workers did manage to find a vantage point . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Well I was out there watering at time scares was on and I had this letter and planes did come over and I laid me ho hosepipe down , I mean you know so he would n't be able |
| 17 | The United States and Canada did experience more industrial unrest in the early seventies than in the fifties and sixties , and money wages rose faster . |
| 18 | Finally whilst it is true that prices and costs did increase between 1978 and 1987 , none of this was directly attributable to expenditures on the Mahaweli Project , which was financed by outright grants and concessionary loans from friendly governments : basic social services and food subsidies were never curtailed . |
| 19 | Judging by the amount of political column inches devoted to stating the ‘ obvious ’ irrationality of the programme 's political contentions , it would appear that one or two ‘ sensible ’ capitalist newspaper owners and editors did take time off from lunch to ensure the sensible British public did not get the wrong idea about A Very British Coup . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A generation or so ago , New Critics and Scrutineers did assume that scrupulosity and rigour were selfjustifying ends in criticism . |
| 22 | I wondered how she would settle down in the United States when she and Hank did get married . |
| 23 | And people did rally round . |
| 24 | The noise and clamour did tend to warn those on the far side of the encampment that something was very much amiss , but this did not produce any organised stand or opposition , only flight . |
| 25 | In my judgment … the placing of the new lock and chain and gate did amount to a final unequivocal demonstration of the defendant 's intention to possess the land . |
| 26 | ‘ I think you should just bury it , ’ said Betty , and Lydia did see what she meant , for human death was attended with such ritual and dispatch that for an instant it seemed cruelly perverse to deny something similar to this helpless creature . |
| 27 | While the planned closure of both Digby and Exminster did mean some transitory inter-hospital transfers , both the chronic long-stay population and elderly people with dementia were considered to be better cared for in the community . |
| 28 | I was too late for an epidural , but found the gas and air did help making me feel quite Euphoric . |
| 29 | On issues like unilateralism or the economy , papers like the Guardian and Telegraph did seem to influence their readers as much as the tabloids , but not on the question of voting choice . |
| 30 | Emily and Anne did know , of course . |