Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb infin] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple in 1925–29 made do with 2.2 live births . |
| 2 | No , I 've I I did think at one time whether to pass a note , bye ! |
| 3 | For example , the sociolinguist Lesley Milroy did research in three closeknit Belfast communities . |
| 4 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p. 147 ) did approve of one book : ‘ This is the first book Émile will read ; for a long time it will form his whole library and it will always retain an honoured place . |
| 5 | Well look at the time you see I did promise at one o'clock to make five o'clock arrive earlier , quicker and we got there in style for the past four hours . |
| 6 | In fact , whilst some economic areas , especially the transport system , did improve in 1945 , inflation grew worse . |
| 7 | Sadly , the war years interrupted the programme , though a few short botanical notes did appear between 1939 and 1945 . |
| 8 | It has been suggested by some that the government and employers were left free to reduce wages and to rationalize industry , and trade union membership did decline from 5.5 million in 1925 to about 4.8 million in 1928 . |
| 9 | And when the Irish Free State did emerge in 1921 , practically the entire school system was under the control of the churches . |
| 10 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 11 | If a Canterbury visit did occur in 1018 it may have been while Cnut and his men were waiting for the £82,500 to be handed over , as the bulk of those who received it were doubtless based in and around London . |
| 12 | Well I had a hysterectomy when I was forty nine and to me life really did begin at fifty ! |
| 13 | But he did confess to one problem — when the washing goes out , the sundial has to be moved . |
| 14 | The grouping formalised the situation by creating four essentially geographically based companies , even though they did stray into one another 's territories . |
| 15 | When Mike finally did collapse after two dreadful weeks , it was clear that we either had to give up , or drastically change our approach . |
| 16 | Tom King did try on one occasion to attack Labour 's defence policy — but mainly on the grounds that it would lose jobs . |
| 17 | Formal electronics schooling teaches you about resistors , capacitors and transistors , obviously ; I did hear about one school in Michigan that specialised in tubes , but that did n't happen for me . |
| 18 | If , if , if you could explain it by that because presumably their standard of living did change between eighteen fifty |
| 19 | I did go for one short walk in the cool overcast , just along the beach to the south end of the island and back , then I stayed in and watched some more television when the rain came on , carried on a low wind , glummuttering against the window . |
| 20 | Those who did go before 1560 were writing about a country which the English wanted to conquer . |
| 21 | The so-serious Bambi did admit to one bit of frivolity to celebrate her freedom . |
| 22 | Nationally the war did lead to one innovation when the government created an imaginative attempt to cope with teacher shortage in the Emergency Training Service , which trained teachers without academic qualifications after national service . |
| 23 | No , both my sister-in-laws did play at one time for Scottish women 's football . |
| 24 | But anyway , with her mind , and I understand she did write at one time , she would have made an impression in some quarter or other . ’ |
| 25 | They may not have got their feet up there in the stirrups with the wife , but they did get through two boxes of Kleenex . |
| 26 | He had n't done so since 1987 , but he did get within three shots of Levi on the back nine . |
| 27 | We can not imagine it , yet it is possible , and if such a change did come to one of us , there would be pain for both and merely afterwards friendship … |
| 28 | Ian did come in one Saturday |
| 29 | The imperial and defence campaigns perhaps did something to prepare the nation for war and they certainly prepared the parry to take the lead when war did come in 1914 . |
| 30 | It may be that the USSR exportable oil surplus did peak in 1980 . |