Example sentences of "[coord] they did [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah when I went in the ladies loo there was one woman in there and they did look nice |
| 2 | As you can imagine , his pet dragons did not grow very large , but they did grow lazy and fat and tame . |
| 3 | They did n't preach to her , but they did love each other . |
| 4 | As these young people were already disturbed these factors can not be claimed to have predated disturbed behaviour , but they did exist prior to the appearance of psychotic-like disorders . |
| 5 | It was primarily an amateur place , but they did do three professional productions a year , mostly of plays on the school curriculum like The Royal Hunt of the Sun . |
| 6 | The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
| 7 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 8 | Moreover , the vast majority of the peasantry were already semi-socialist : they were not yet persuaded of the need for collective farming , but they did reject private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands . |
| 9 | But they did say four to five weeks on the coat did n't they ? |
| 10 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 11 | St. Albans average two-and-a-half goals a game away from Clarence Park and ex-Dragons Steve Clark and Jimmy King are having excellent seasons , but they did lose 2–1 at home to Harrow Borough on Saturday and let Chesham go nine clear at the top . |
| 12 | Kelso were guilty of missing far too many tackles , but they did lose all their back row through injury during the game , and Eric Paxton had to come out of retirement as a replacement . |
| 13 | Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions , but they did require certain forms of expenditure . |
| 14 | There was no sign of any sheep , but they did notice some strange-looking footprints in the earth by the house . |
| 15 | The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children . |