Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some fragments of my education in English Literature which did return to me . |
| 2 | One strange discovery we did make scraps of paper bearing the word Raphael . |
| 3 | I do n't know how much actual difference it did make . |
| 4 | One participant claimed that when he used his West Belfast address in job applications he had no replies , but when he used an outside address he did receive replies . |
| 5 | Tell me when , when we when we s started our discussion of the planning the future document I did say that er there was one or two things you could do for me and er one of those of course was to ask you if you could , during the course of our discussion , if any names came to , to mind , anybody who you would find that you could er you could recommend me to or can refer to me to if in fact you found our discussions were of benefit |
| 6 | One example of the monumental style which did get built was the Wesleyans ' new London home , the Central Hall in Westminster . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | , but I 'm not surprised , so , erm , in our previous visit they did give us |
| 9 | One deaf person who did come through to play a leading role in deaf affairs was David Fyfe . |
| 10 | good job I did leave were n't it ? |
| 11 | It was a good thing I did meet him , as the Well of Lunatics proved to be a long way away . |
| 12 | Thirty seconds is to produce a film that 's a long time we did talk about seven second slots as well |
| 13 | Though there have always been differences between countries outside the First World , for a long time it did appear to make sense to speak of The Third World , the title of Worsley 's very influential book ( 1973 ) on the subject . |
| 14 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 15 | And er would have erm perceived that he was n't greatly hampered by it , but once you 've got a surgeon who is going to get a fat fee he did say to him are you sure you want this done |
| 16 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |
| 17 | The short notice I did write was my first appearance in that journal , and I recall that Rowse did not much like it ; but then he did not like Collingwood either . |
| 18 | The only , the only bit I did find was the very last part during the course did n't sound as natural as the rest of it . |
| 19 | Hygienist theories were in any case too stress-provoking to the mother to have lasted very many years ; the only group who did seem to derive satisfaction from them were some who , standing in an advisory role to the parents , found in such an authoritarian regime a source of power . |
| 20 | ‘ The only person who did catch a glimmer of the truth was poor Dame Frances . |
| 21 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 22 | When ‘ This Charming Man ’ was unleashed on the general public it did sound fresh and exciting . ’ |
| 23 | it 's the only date I did remember from school |
| 24 | It is n't until ah th , the only time we did have a smashing journey , we went with erm oh what 's , what 's the name of a local firm from Plymouth ? |
| 25 | One thing did upset him , and that was innovation ; if the Vicar discovered anything new , on either the theological or the social horizon , he grew hot it was the only time he did get hot . |
| 26 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 27 | Moreover , that those increases in recorded crime which did occur came after the onset of the panic . |
| 28 | However , during a break in filming The Big Sleep I did join him and Robert Mitchum for a drink at a nearby pub . |
| 29 | But in the final hour he did deliver the goods , taking impromptu questions from the audience . |
| 30 | The other day we did get compared to EMF , though , which is a bit worrying . ’ |