Example sentences of "did give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The place that did give him a job was the Irish Catholic paper The Standard , which had a very funny editor who just liked to drink most of the day and was amused by Patrick and hired him as film critic . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , she did give outright support to the stand taken by the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 3 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 4 | But the mid-engined layout did give us all kinds of new problems ; rear visibility , thermal and acoustic insulation of the passenger compartment , engine ventilation . |
| 5 | I had to rinse quite often to get rid of debris , but it did give a close shave . |
| 6 | ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 7 | The Government did give a £10 million grant to the McFarlane charitable trust to meet the health and domestic needs of the victims . |
| 8 | ‘ What we have to admit is that the system we are now overthrowing did give us something . |
| 9 | He did give everybody the run-around , but was wonderfully attractive and , indeed , still is . |
| 10 | The CLRC did give serious consideration to dividing indecent assault into two grades , so the idea of grading is not entirely alien to England . |
| 11 | The sexual content of the film did give Kylie pause for thought . |
| 12 | It has one very curious feature ; it was drawn up by one ‘ Henry Balfour , priest of Dunkeld diocese , notary public by apostolic authority ’ , who was in fact no notary at all , and this did give ground for doubt . |
| 13 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 14 | ‘ She did give me something though . ’ |
| 15 | My father did give money to the Arabs to keep his head . ’ |
| 16 | My wife began , I know not whether by design or chance , to enquire what she should do , if I should by any accident die , to which I did give her some slight answer , but shall make good use of it to bring myself to some settlement for her sake , by making a will as soon as I can . ‘ |
| 17 | Nutty had once accused him of giving his mare extra feed at night because she was fatter than all the others , but it was true : he did give her extra . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , you did give me a fright . |
| 19 | However , lots of people did give very generously , and we managed to raise several thousand pounds for research and education on arthritis . |
| 20 | Such an unsettled lifestyle made it difficult for Pauline to accumulate much in the way of household possessions , but what it did give her was a very cosmopolitan view . |
| 21 | But it is pure silk encrusted with sequins and it did give Yul Brynner a regal air when he wore it in The King And I in 1956 . |
| 22 | ‘ The referee could have given us two penalties in the first half but the one he did give did n't look much from where I was in the dug-out . |
| 23 | He never married Tarita , his leading lady in Mutiny on the Bounty , but she did give him two children . |
| 24 | But she did give him a hefty shove and he nearly fell . |
| 25 | That apart , South Africa did give the best two sides in the world a game . |
| 26 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 27 | But the show did give UK users a first chance to see Borland 's Paradox for Windows , Lotus 's Freelance Graphics 2 and its revolutionary new Windows spreadsheet , Improv ( see page 97 for a full review ) . |
| 28 | Erm , there 's a question of a rally in Central Hall , now in order to organise this pensioner 's rally there short of funds , erm , I think the executive will be discussing this and as , as before we did give them quite a considerable donating , because it costs a thousand pounds to hire the centre hall and we do want to erm take part in a very big rally , like the last one was . |
| 29 | You , you did give once to a group a few years ago . |
| 30 | While the concessions were not as damaging to China 's integrity as the original list would have been , they did give Japan a far stronger base in China from which to conduct economic activities , confirming her dominance in Shandong , Manchuria and part of Mongolia . |