Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd come out on the simple camera-fetching errand without the complete zipped pouch of gadgets but I did have with me the belt holding my knife and the multi-purpose survival tool , and on the back of that tool there was a mirror . |
| 2 | Well I think she felt , as they went I was sitting reading all about horoscopes but they did win . |
| 3 | Bateman was unable to put his name on the League scorers ' list in spite of 32 appearances but he did get an important goal for Palace that season . |
| 4 | ‘ He did make things difficult for a few minutes and I did consider having him fired from the chamber . |
| 5 | He was always waiting , very receptive to new ideas and so he did like people and organizations to present their views and he did like to hear discussion . |
| 6 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 7 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 8 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 9 | Such actions did not infringe the Corrupt Practice Acts but they did make them virtually inoperative . |
| 10 | But it is pure silk encrusted with sequins and it did give Yul Brynner a regal air when he wore it in The King And I in 1956 . |
| 11 | Friends , as we speak today about South Africa , we speak about transition transition from February nineteen ninety when De Klerk said that he would change things and he did change things and they were dramatic changes and then we had apartheid with a liberal dispensation . |
| 12 | They did bring out Times Small Ads and I did try and do a Bible in it but it did n't work . |
| 13 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 14 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 15 | Nonconformity did not will migration into the towns nor the migration out again to the suburbs but it did meet the challenges presented by these mammoth social changes . |
| 16 | She was n't overly interested in showy , materialistic status symbols but she did buy one — her open-topped Mazda car with its distinctive JLG number plate for Julie Louise Godwin . |
| 17 | We did n't see any orchids but we did see some beautiful foxgloves and were lucky enough to catch sight of birds high above . |
| 18 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 19 | Late in 1988 I purchased a second-hand Toyota KS901 ( we are now the best of friends but it did take a while ) . |
| 20 | He , at least , kept his hands off the Girls but he did flirt with Nellie 's young nieces whom he would take out on the quiet . |
| 21 | but they were much more interested in people of course with degrees but they did take people who had n't . |