Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm for what it 's worth , I 'll give you my suggestions about what we should do as far as ticket prices are concerned er , having taken in a view of the most important factor of the treasurer 's comments but also bearing in mind that we did have high recurring expenses this year , which wo n't apply in future and we 're not here to make money . |
| 2 | Dennis Bond wrote in his ‘ chronology ’ in 1639 : ‘ The 27th December there was such a wind that it did blow down divers houses and several woods . |
| 3 | A statement issued by the board said : ‘ We maintain , as we have done throughout the inquiry , that there is no reason to doubt Mr Evans 's own submission that he did raise his flag on each occasion , and we have not been made aware of any evidence that he did not . ’ |
| 4 | We had to , obviously , but the Poll Tax is now all on this modern technology and it does n't need nearly as many staff , and Phyllis will remember in her budget that they did put savings in the Treasurer 's Department for that very reason . |
| 5 | And never in my wildest dream did we imagine that Labour would get in with the resounding majority that they did get in . |
| 6 | First , the mere statement by a constable that he did anticipate that there might be a breach of the peace is clearly not enough . |
| 7 | as his friends used to call him ) was born prematurely and was not expected to live more than a few weeks ; it was only due to his mother 's great love for her child that he did survive . |
| 8 | Chairman , there 's just one little point that I did speak to the Town Clerk and I think the Council should be aware of it . |
| 9 | Both for not being prepared , not giving the opening of this course the importance that it did deserve , and obviously for the embarrassment that er you must have felt having to sit there while I made a total fool of myself . |
| 10 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |
| 11 | it was not relevant that the insurer was prepared to make a payment in the event that they did provide insurance cover . |
| 12 | Er Mr also made the point that er urban regeneration erm no longer seems to have the emphasis that it did have . |
| 13 | Making the reasonable assumption that Sue wanted , for professional reasons , to be " identified with " her clients , we have here evidence that she did adjust her linguistic behaviour in such a way as to bring it closer to that of a group with which , at the time in question , she wished to be identified . |
| 14 | ( e ) There is , to put it negatively , no evidence that she did wish to persist in a refusal of a blood transfusion even if it was at risk to her life . |
| 15 | There is actual evidence that he did do it in his childhood , and th so they 're not erm , they 're kind of building everything on a single sentence like Leo does , you know , amazingly enough , Leo 's book starts with entry of Who 's Who in a single phrase , where she calls herself daughter of , her father . |
| 16 | ‘ Mr. Burgess in my judgment was clearly an experienced careful solicitor and I have no hesitation in accepting his evidence that he did form the view that on 26 March 1986 Mr. Winterbone was not capable of making a will for the reasons he stated — namely that he was incoherent and confused in the sense that he was unable to remember names and addresses and he was not at all clear in relation to the names of the people that he wished to benefit . |
| 17 | He also spoke of the motivation and enjoyment he had derived from Young Enterprise and the confidence he had gained from this knowledge that he did possess significant , relevant abilities school just had not teased them out before . |
| 18 | She told herself she did not care about the fact that he was already married but was equally scarred by the knowledge that he did have a wife . |
| 19 | However , even though it expresses my belief that you did steal the money , the distinctively ethical role of the sentence is to express my attitude of disfavour towards you for this act . |
| 20 | As irony would have it , however , an examiner that I did have passed on to Rowse the information that , in the paper on Political Institutions , in which I did badly , I had vigorously attacked Rowse 's pamphlet on ‘ The Question of the House of Lords ’ . |
| 21 | I still had this uncomfortable feeling that I did know her . |
| 22 | Although she had an unpleasant feeling that she did know who formed the current centrepiece of this particular seraglio . |
| 23 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 24 | This is what she said to herself , but at the same time she was alarmed , faintly alarmed by the implication that everyone did know such things . |
| 25 | While the Prime Minister himself denied that he would be the first executive President , in the absence of any obvious independent candidates , there was an assumption that whoever did take up the office would closely reflect Lee 's views . |
| 26 | Yes , okay , could we ask Mr Chairman , on this particular thing on this arson business in one thing that we did express concern of were a number of years that are invariably are started we 've called in to do the research into this and the investigation , so ar does this add now the fact that you 're more sophisticated , does it now mean that your having more staff er , devoted to this , because this was a question that whether we should do it , or whether the police should be doing it ? |
| 27 | Well that , that was another thing that we did debate |
| 28 | One thing that I did tell her was that if I ever got arrested she would not be involved . |
| 29 | The only thing that I did find was that the , getting to grips with the issues er th was certainly as difficult , possibly more difficult , than I realized . |
| 30 | And the thing that I did say to June once was erm , you know , when I began to courting and seeing all the girls in the pretty little dresses and things , Marks and Spencer 's had just got clubs going and that , you know . |