Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes it should , but only if South Africa holds up its hand and admits that money did find its way into certain bank accounts and that the game in South Africa has been awash with money for many years . |
| 2 | Indeed that smell did stimulate the gastric juices . |
| 3 | As has been argued already , most students believed that there was an answer , that physics did provide certainty ; and they did not make philosophical connections between the ideas of modern physics and the existence or otherwise of absolute truths about the universe . |
| 4 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 5 | If this snake did show , I thought , please God it liked the taste of men with beards . |
| 6 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 7 | This review did suggest that the prevalence of Alzheimers disease was more common among women . |
| 8 | This girl did need a woman around her and her brother 's face was a fascinating mixture of satisfaction and irritation . |
| 9 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 10 | Was there a major breakthrough when this confession did come to light ? |
| 11 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 12 | However this teacher did comment that some of his colleagues in other schools were less happy with the change in emphasis , largely because they had always taught music as the development of a range of performance and theoretical skills , and were frightened by the stress the new syllabuses were putting upon improvisation and composition : |
| 13 | In winter , when the level in the canal would tend to be some three inches higher , then some water did splash over the sides of the tanks , but never at any time was the water emptied from the tanks to enable hauling to proceed.9 ; On this basis alone the lift must be judged to have been a technical success . |
| 14 | This woman did behave antisocially . |
| 15 | Furthermore , it remains something of a puzzle that , when this movement did flourish during the 1920s and 1930s , Pound went out of his way to distance himself from it . |
| 16 | However , before we discuss the difference between this finding and that of Marslen-Wilson 's demonstration of facilitatory effects of context in auditory word-recognition , we should note that another experiment carried out by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ) showed that some facilitation did occur with words which were very predictable from their context . |
| 17 | This downturn did happen — and at even lower levels than those experienced in the slump of 1987 , affecting our Great Yarmouth operations in particular . |
| 18 | Some trepidation did exist therefore on this occasion but I was fortunate and the MV Brendan had only to negotiate a slight swell on its way past Eriskay to South Uist . |
| 19 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 20 | ‘ Nevertheless , this incident did teach me to have respect for all things associated with the Mass . |
| 21 | Could I just come in there and I do know an undertaker and this subject did come up in conversation . |
| 22 | The issue was clouded further by the refusal of six republican governments ( the three Baltic republics , Moldavia , Georgia and Armenia ) to take part , although some voting did take place on their territories , and by the modification or supplementation of the question in four other republics . |
| 23 | Although some skulduggery did go on , by and large no-one pinched material from someone else 's fire — it was an unwritten law which was drummed into us at school ‘ to keep your hands from picking and stealing ’ and this was obeyed by most youngsters . |
| 24 | This version did receive approval and the weekly cycle of episode recording commenced in earnest . |
| 25 | He claimed that this amount did have significant effects on the person 's capacity to remember ( though presumably it did not cause them to remember their past experiences as yeast cells ! ) . |
| 26 | I mean , this lot did come in , only six months ago , announcing that everyone would have to stand on their own feet and not be rescued , and face up to competition , and all that . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , given the earlier findings on investment intensity , this matter did need clarification . |
| 28 | Some tone did go , but this was more than compensated for by the Power Tool 's onboard EQ . |
| 29 | If Pound in this way did bypass Aubeterre , he missed something after his own heart . |
| 30 | But this is misleading in the sense that much of this expenditure did generate purchasing power in recipient countries , which led to demand for dollar goods , demand which was not effectively curtailed by the exchange controls . |