Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps a more sensitive test would be to examine the writings of puritans who did take an interest in science in seventeenth-century England to see what connections they did make in their schemes for reform . |
| 2 | For a number of years they did have but er |
| 3 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 4 | There were eighteen patients who had recurrence , twenty percent of patients who did have recurrence in the first year , and we 've subdivided those , labelling seven patients protocol violators . |
| 5 | The poor would at least have a common school with the advantaged in society , enjoy a common programme and though this in itself did not mark equality of outcomes it did secure equality of access . |
| 6 | We regret the things we failed to do , we reproach ourselves for things we did do and feel relief that we have moved on . |
| 7 | And I could n't bear to be with women I did like because it reminded me forcibly that they did n't turn me on . ’ |