Example sentences of "did take [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And many women actually did take to their beds when they were menstruating and erm sort of retired from active life and this was n't possible then because so many women had been called up you know and they had had to be in the army or they had to work in factories and it was n't possible for them to be absent . |
| 2 | Mena 's everyday face is just stubborn , you could call it proud — she 's a countrywoman from a good province as they say — but Anna took to it , she did take to people — her infatuations Constanza says — she took to my father when he was a very young man and he was n't so good-looking either . |
| 3 | On leaving the squadron did take at least two of its old Hurricane Is with it . |
| 4 | They did take in boarders , many of whom were orphans or the recipients of charity . |
| 5 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 6 | And pe , people did take in lodgers did n't they ? |