Example sentences of "did [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did rush eternal through the darkling space , |
| 2 | Let me go through it again , I , I did rush through it . |
| 3 | Can we just spare a couple of minutes so we can get this straight , because I did rush through it , and it was , er , obviously wrong of me . |
| 4 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 5 | But he did eat it , and I thought he would . |
| 6 | I did eat enough — if anything , too much . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |
| 8 | If he did eat any food he would either chew very slowly or just hold it in his mouth . |
| 9 | I did eat jelly with chopsticks — as I said ! |
| 10 | Men could and did eat sandwiches while their female companions ate nothing . |
| 11 | And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was a delight to the eyes , and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof , and did eat ; and she gave also unto her husband with her , and he did eat … |
| 12 | And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was a delight to the eyes , and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof , and did eat ; and she gave also unto her husband with her , and he did eat … |
| 13 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 14 | ( 1b ) I did eat my porridge . |
| 15 | Yeah , he has had a bonio , he likes a bonio , he did eat one last night , |
| 16 | then you did button hole stitch round that |
| 17 | then you did another line underneath , then you did button hole stitch round the line and the bottom of the other button hole stitch |
| 18 | For on 17 November 1558 — in the same month as the Scottish parliament did grant the crown matrimonial — Mary Tudor died . |
| 19 | The sharpest clash occurred in the village of Bezdna in the eastern province of Kazan " , where a certain Anton Petrov began claiming that the statutes really did grant wholesale freedom . |
| 20 | The serfs had swallowed the slaves , a process made hopelessly obscure by the fact that the same word , servus , often did service for both . |
| 21 | Such prodigies were invariably pupils of the three most prominent schools of the area — Queen 's , Dale and Selborne — whose monumental inter-school rivalries were temporarily suspended when their products did service for the province . |
| 22 | Pulling off the silky dress with trembling hands , then the slips of white lace which did service as bra and pants , she angrily kicked off the low-heeled white sandals , raked her long blonde hair out of its French plait , and then plunged gratefully for the privacy of the small en-suite bathroom , standing beneath the shower for a long , soothing soak before she climbed into bed in the baggy jade T-shirt which she wore as a nightshirt . |
| 23 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 24 | One thing that I think we have to be very careful about , if we did legalize cannabis there would be a proportion of adolescents who would get a great kick out of it , but there would those who do n't get the kick because it 's not illegal . |
| 25 | I 'll never forget old , about two days I 'd been there , and I 'm going across the square and I see this bloke with sombreal on , so I did flung him up a salute cos that was wrong , he says come here |
| 26 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 27 | This definition was not carried forward into the later Acts , although both the Act of 1979 and the current Act did reproduce some of the provisions regarding depositors which were contained in the Act of 1963 . |
| 28 | He confirmed that he did think it would be for the best if I dropped out of family life , and in my heart , I knew he was right . |
| 29 | ‘ I really did think you 'd gone , dear , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Though Eliot did not like Lindsay 's work , he did think that it might have paved the way for better things . |