Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course we did have gangs , as do as other places : London , Birmingham , Manchester , Liverpool , Cardiff , etc . |
| 2 | Because of course we did put er these proposals , most of these proposals until we 've had to erm at the board meeting er and we did give them full publicity in the Cambridge Evening News a couple of weeks ago . |
| 3 | But of course he did ride . ’ |
| 4 | And er but of course she did lose the baby . |
| 5 | Of course it did herald a new era … in the second division . |
| 6 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 7 | its , honestly it was and eventually of course it did come out and there 's always been a gap because the one behind |
| 8 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 9 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 10 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 11 | He was vaguely surprised that what sense of loss he did have seemed to be connected in some way with Cyprus . |
| 12 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 13 | It was really extremely hazardous , and as we stood there peering vainly into the blanket of fog it did cross my mind that we were all quite crazy . |
| 14 | Er just out of interest I did ring the other day |
| 15 | I 've already earmarked the cage drilling machine just in case we did require it , to make sure that no parts were taken off it to support the next one . |
| 16 | I wanted to double up all Wavebreaker 's standing rigging , just in case we did try to take her across the ocean . |
| 17 | Oh save anyway in case you did change something and you forgot it . |
| 18 | Although local authority staff and councillors accepted that Review Boards could not be truly independent , members feel that in practice they did act independently ; |
| 19 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 20 | However , in compensation I did find a nice silver hammered halfpenny of Henry V and a few rose farthings . |
| 21 | She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face . |
| 22 | Although he has spent most of his working life in academia he did have an eight- year stint , from 1963 , in industrial research . |
| 23 | Even in the situation that we find ourselves in with the Maxwell Pension situation , where we find that the the erm Trust Law did n't prevent the things from happening which did happen . |
| 24 | Later on in life I did acquire another bike , a Raleigh , and a good , stout little bike it is . |
| 25 | And erm I , when I was in , in hospital we did have triplets two of those lived alright though . |
| 26 | Yeah page seven er er I think that speaking from memory we did want that made clear that that er was the recognition of the achievements of the groundsman handyman , particularly in relation to the high standards of upkeep in the park . |
| 27 | But in fact they did care , because if they had n't the traumas that afflicted Welsh rugby at about this time would have had not effect . |
| 28 | This booklet was distributed just before met , so in fact er , paragraph two does say at the moment that in our new recommended programme there is n't , well in fact they did agree those recommendations . |
| 29 | In fact we did find a clear difference between the three- and the four-year-olds : the younger ones typically pointed to the box with the chocolate and the older children to the empty box . |
| 30 | Yes coun councillor I can advise you that in fact it did cost considerably in excess of two pounds fifty , it cost four pounds and sixty one pence each . |