Example sentences of "[conj] they did [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where they did build a school for them you see . |
| 2 | However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place . |
| 3 | But I never ever had a running line , although they did have an order for so many like that and I 'd keep the patterns and the gages and if they wanted any more later on , you know , I used to do that sort of thing for the sake of me customers and all that . |
| 4 | The more weak-willed of the defenders very often spent more time watching the native princes eating their banquets than they did watching the enemy lines . |
| 5 | Although the 1992 results are not public , a highly-placed source at USL tells us that they did make a small profit last year ( on revenues of $91m ) . |
| 6 | Although a reasonable amount of material is available about the lives of these two men , nothing is known about their Muftiliks beyond the bare statement that they did hold the office ; and it is consequently impossible to make assumptions with any assurance about the nature of their Muftiliks . |
| 7 | Those young people , well , they did talk a bit loudly and show off , but they always had a smile and a pleasant word , and they did brighten the place up a bit , you could n't deny it . |
| 8 | American style restaurants usually cater well for children so The Manhattan in Bradbury Place looked an ideal spot and they did have a kiddies ' menu . |
| 9 | In the case of Camden and Islington , the authority did have good officers , and they did have the capacity to plan for a future district based provision . |
| 10 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 11 | I think that they may be frightened to speak up and that they 're scared that if they say something that they do n't know , like a lot of them do n't know the facts , like today , in the same class as Janine across there , some of them did n't know even the very the pro , progression of the male pill or anything like that , and they did learn a few things but a again they never spoke up and they were n't interested , but I |
| 12 | But some tablets were kindly provided and they did alleviate the problem . |
| 13 | The criterion of liability is : ‘ Did the defendants … bring to their land things likely to catch fire , and keep them there in such conditions that if they did ignite the fire would be likely to spread to the plaintiff 's land ? ’ |
| 14 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 15 | Erm the point I made to them , that everybody round that table , if they did have a problem that they thought was urgent , they should get on the phone to the , you know , Steve and |
| 16 | If they did have an effect , it was in a negative direction discouraging long-term planning ( Fine and Harris , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not quite sure , ’ the writer said , ‘ why these American officers were in the Catalinas ’ , and he went on to say that if they did play a valuable part in the operation , the Admiralty might care to recognize their services . |
| 18 | Ask them what they would do if they did know the answers . |
| 19 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 20 | The termites continued to build their hills with their crest pointing in exactly the same direction as before , but they did change the disposition of their elongated chambers within the nest . |
| 21 | But they did carry an extra two-gallon can , and had to resort to it three times . |
| 22 | Neither programme really effected any change in the course of events , but they did build a sense of trust in those who might one day use us to bear public witness against the Godfathers of terrorism . |
| 23 | The orderlies did n't do a lot of work but they did do a lot of talking , and their general cheerfulness had a lifting effect on the corridor as a whole . |
| 24 | But they did have a drastic effect . |
| 25 | But they did have a very clear idea of how they wanted the house to look and resigned themselves to living with the mess while they tackled it room by room . |
| 26 | The restored Stuarts did not have to deal with any difficulty of this sort but they did have a general problem of making sure that the King 's authority was accepted . |
| 27 | Not that the Russians were much better , but they did have a few of the new German FW190S which Hitler had promised to Stalin as a goodwill gesture over the Poland deal . |
| 28 | But they did have a distinct legal life . |
| 29 | They managed to get some ones on the sea , but they did have a try erm a lot of them come up with the erm barking up the wrong tree said the dog , you know , things like that with a bit of help . |
| 30 | The recommendations of the Commission were not entirely adopted , but they did have an impact on the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act 1950 , which provided for a federal budget based on the functions and activities of the government . |