Example sentences of "of [adj] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also lived at Pinner and erm then the work dried up and he first of all he did work was a postman at Christmas time , you know just as a thing and then he started you know then he became full time you know . |
| 2 | Erm , first of all I did promise to you that I 'd give you some idea of the sort of material would be on next week 's erm multiple guess questions , okay ? |
| 3 | For many of those who did remain life was very hard ; family members frequently had to seek outside employment on a part-time or short-term basis . |
| 4 | A substantial minority of all paper readers , 42 per cent , thought their paper was biased in its treatment of the Alliance ; and most of those who did detect bias thought their paper was biased against the Alliance . |
| 5 | On Dunkirk 's sunlit main street , Sid Carter marched again with five thousand of those who did make it back ; old friends reunited , new friendships established , and all remembering a very different June day . |
| 6 | Of those who did marry , comparatively few did so as young as 20 . |
| 7 | Of those who did go to the 30,000 polling booths , set up in mosques and schools , few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders . |
| 8 | In addition to regulating the chief feasts and rituals of the year , the Church canons prohibited Sunday work , in accordance with the Ten Commandments , and these canons were backed up by the dissemination of miracle stories concerning the fates of those who did work on Sundays . |
| 9 | Of those who did attend , the bias in favour of Oxford and Cambridge has remained effectively unchanged . |
| 10 | Not all of them came , and many of those who did attend represented the panoply of power rather than its reality . |
| 11 | Secondly , about half of those who did attend for worship chose to go to a Nonconformist chapel . |
| 12 | Reporters were n't welcome , but most of those who did attend were unhappy with what they heard . |
| 13 | In the group to which I paid closest attention my surprise was more at the unremarkable calibre of several who did get through than at any apparently unfairly rejected . |