Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after that I did take up private nursing . |
| 2 | Well I I I would n't er pin point the German attitude on this one , I mean after all we did collaborate with Germany very successfully on the tornado which has a nuclear role but the the four governments must first of all decide if that is what we want to build into this aeroplane and they decided that they did not at that stage . |
| 3 | After all I did know through my discussions with Pasha regarding the plausibility of King Lear 's plot that the Earl of Gloucester was really the Earl of Gloster . |
| 4 | During 1975–9 they did settle disputes by threatening violence and by paying compensation , and said that this was customary . |
| 5 | When he failed to show up by half past eight they did begin to wonder . |
| 6 | He also lived at Pinner and erm then the work dried up and he first of all he did work was a postman at Christmas time , you know just as a thing and then he started you know then he became full time you know . |
| 7 | Erm , first of all I did promise to you that I 'd give you some idea of the sort of material would be on next week 's erm multiple guess questions , okay ? |
| 8 | For many of those who did remain life was very hard ; family members frequently had to seek outside employment on a part-time or short-term basis . |
| 9 | A substantial minority of all paper readers , 42 per cent , thought their paper was biased in its treatment of the Alliance ; and most of those who did detect bias thought their paper was biased against the Alliance . |
| 10 | On Dunkirk 's sunlit main street , Sid Carter marched again with five thousand of those who did make it back ; old friends reunited , new friendships established , and all remembering a very different June day . |
| 11 | Of those who did marry , comparatively few did so as young as 20 . |
| 12 | Of those who did go to the 30,000 polling booths , set up in mosques and schools , few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders . |
| 13 | In addition to regulating the chief feasts and rituals of the year , the Church canons prohibited Sunday work , in accordance with the Ten Commandments , and these canons were backed up by the dissemination of miracle stories concerning the fates of those who did work on Sundays . |
| 14 | Of those who did attend , the bias in favour of Oxford and Cambridge has remained effectively unchanged . |
| 15 | Not all of them came , and many of those who did attend represented the panoply of power rather than its reality . |
| 16 | Secondly , about half of those who did attend for worship chose to go to a Nonconformist chapel . |
| 17 | Reporters were n't welcome , but most of those who did attend were unhappy with what they heard . |
| 18 | In the group to which I paid closest attention my surprise was more at the unremarkable calibre of several who did get through than at any apparently unfairly rejected . |
| 19 | Amongst those who did give , education , health and general welfare came out as top recipients , but the top 200 corporate donors altogether only gave 150 million for all purposes — a trivial sum in comparison with any social spending total : 25 billion , say , on the NHS or education ( see Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 20 | However , amongst those who did come we had a good combination of past experience and new ideas . |
| 21 | That was about all I did have , but it was n't much to pay for peace and a future of freedom . |
| 22 | It wor i I mean for those it did work |
| 23 | This made it impossible for those who did advance reform proposals , such as Panin under Catherine II and Pahlen under Alexander I , to organize united pressure upon the Tsar to compromise his authority . |
| 24 | For those who did mention difficulties , the most frequently stated was toileting or dealing with incontinence . |
| 25 | For those who did choose healthy alternatives , the most popular product was low-fat margarine used by nearly half the sample , followed by skimmed milk used by 40% . |
| 26 | For those who did stick to their first choice , the most important consideration seems to have been simply how much they wanted — or could afford — to pay back each month . |
| 27 | For those who did venture out there were traffic jams . |
| 28 | The settlement connects with other forms of extension in that it did have an educational aim , but , like Oxford House ( another settlement or " mission " set up in the East End in 1884 ) , it usefully illustrates new initiatives for the renewal of forms of leadership and patterns for social administration upon which the elevation of English largely depended , Barnett saw Toynbee Hall as the potential centre for an east London university ; in fact it became , as did the other settlements and extension classes , a centre for members of the middle class . |
| 29 | The network of family connections in Italy , though not in itself either a reason or motive for the policy which Napoleon III was to pursue in the peninsula , was nevertheless a help in that it did provide a useful information service and helped to create a feeling of sympathy for French policy . |
| 30 | But in 1925 he did overthrow the Cadgers. he had considered creating a republic , but he was persuaded many of the leading clergy that the monarchy should be preserved . |