Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even when you got into your second years you did get erm two hours off one day and three hours the next , which was usually five till eight . |
| 2 | In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe , but I did not try to escape in it . |
| 3 | And the reason in the first place I did leave the building trade was my hands was breaking out with in industrial disease , see ? |
| 4 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 5 | But the first time I did use it I thought me inside were on fire . |
| 6 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 7 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 8 | ‘ When was the last time you did see him ? ’ |