Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] did [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russell J. then said that ‘ Mrs. Jones did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document ’ but repeated that ‘ the absence of independent advice is fatal to the claim . ’ |
| 2 | The sergeant wondered aloud whether Maggie Parkin did secretly believe in her husband 's guilt . |
| 3 | If Saint Winifred did indeed conceive and decree her departure with the wagon for Ramsey , and if a saint 's plans can not be disrupted by man , then surely she must also have willed all that happened after … the ambush by outlaws , the theft of the cart and team , the abandonment of the load , and with it , her reliquary , to be found by my tenants , and brought to me here . |
| 4 | Mr Customer Smith did however acquire a dubious reputation for dealing in prize goods . |
| 5 | During 1986 , Mr Scott did once enter the kitchen , and when he did not see his wife assumed she was visiting relatives . |
| 6 | ‘ Nevertheless , I have come to the conclusion , after much hesitation , that Mr. O'Brien did falsely represent to her that the charge was limited to secure £60,000 and that it would be released in a short time , when the £60,000 had been raised by remortgage . |
| 7 | A dental specialist , Dr Bernard Sims , has told the court that if the original whack from Lenny McLean did indeed break Humphreys 's jaw , he would not have been able to speak coherently afterwards . |
| 8 | Stations like those at Atbara , Port Sudan , and El Obeid did indeed have the look of an English country or Scottish Highland station , with the building on an island platform , adorned with travel posters and fine lamps . |
| 9 | The team was regarded by many , including James Michener , as having a negative impact : ‘ I strongly suspect that the Harlem Globetrotters did more damage racially than they did good , because they deepened the stereotype of ‘ the loveable , irresponsible Negro ’ ’ ( 1976 , p.145 ) . |
| 10 | If it is the case that Hizir Bey did indeed hold a muftilik that , in effect , Fahreddin Acemi was Mufti in Edirne while Hizir Bey was mufti in Istanbul the situation might constitute a parallel to the earlier one of the possibly overlapping tenures of Molla Yegan in Bursa and Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne . |
| 11 | It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum . |
| 12 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |