Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [vb infin] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Whether the preface to his treatise in which this comment was made was ever actually read by the society 's members is not known , although they did order two copies of his ‘ two publications on Farriery ’ .
2 While recognising the relative vulnerability of certain groups to poverty , it must be emphasised that they do share one crucial common feature , their social class position .
3 It was primarily an amateur place , but they did do three professional productions a year , mostly of plays on the school curriculum like The Royal Hunt of the Sun .
4 But they did say four to five weeks on the coat did n't they ?
5 St. Albans average two-and-a-half goals a game away from Clarence Park and ex-Dragons Steve Clark and Jimmy King are having excellent seasons , but they did lose 2–1 at home to Harrow Borough on Saturday and let Chesham go nine clear at the top .
6 As in The Netherlands , the insurers have also resisted subsidizing treatment which is primarily non-medical , though they do fund 30 per cent of the dispensaires prevention programmes administered primarily within the local government system .
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