Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this dimension the lower orders did invest money as well as " emotional capital " in leisure . |
| 2 | But the six ministers did draft a joint proposal for the pooling of information and work on the uses of nuclear energy , and for the establishment of a customs union that would lead to a common market . |
| 3 | Overall these indicate that while the rate of victimization recorded in the annual surveys did increase in the 1970s and 1980s , this was at a substantially lower rate ( 1 per cent on average ) than the officially recorded crime-rate ( 3.5–5 per cent average annual increase ; cf. |
| 4 | According to Greta Balfour from the Royal College of Midwives , ‘ Longer hospital stays gave women the chance to make new friends , and contact with other mothers showed them how the early problems did get better . ’ |
| 5 | The following conferences did place racism on the agenda , and all white participants were expected to take it seriously . |
| 6 | In 1955 the three states did accept an agricultural common market , though in the event a further seven years elapsed before it was established . |
| 7 | ‘ And even if the good nuns did seduce them , they would have to break the seal on the pouch as well as my lord cardinal 's special seal on each letter , decode the cipher and re-seal them again . ’ |
| 8 | But I could at least sense that even the most feared and serious of all the mental illnesses did have something to do with me , however disturbing that may have seemed at the time . |
| 9 | In eighteen , between eighteen fifteen and eighteen eighteen er the great powers did intervene in France . |
| 10 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 11 | And the fire actually started beyond the North Wall , just by the North Gate , but the wind was blowing from the North , and it blew it down , and although it did n't burn the rather better stone houses , facing onto St Aldate 's , erm behind I think a lot of the poorer houses did suffer , and St Ebbe 's parish , next door , suffered a great deal , and because it was war , I think they just , the city council , city records lament that there how hard it is for people , and there 's no money to help them . |
| 12 | And the comic trippers did get to see the back of rebel Lord Tebbit , a sight that would have made Mr Major grin with relief amid the squabbles . |
| 13 | But the first visitors did find intelligent life within the planet , in a vast hallowed-out area that has as much land area as some smaller worlds . |
| 14 | Er , but even so the running boards did look very complicated because on one half an hour he 'd probably go and do a Six A run , another one a Six B run , a Two and a Four . |
| 15 | Contrary to the norm for a Yorkshire dale , the young men did venture outside to seek their partners and John met Marie at a fair . |
| 16 | It was so much worse for her because all the other boys did turn up , and her friends had a lovely time with their partners . |
| 17 | The point made by Mr Bishop about employment , shopping and other land I also wish to respond to , I think one of the other participants did mention the issue of existing provision , it 's been quite clear from the work of the Greater York authorities that certainly shopping terms there is an oversupply of shopping companies in and around the edge of the urban area at the present time , we have a number of major outstanding consents which have not yet been taken up . |
| 18 | Despite the deterioration in inter-Korean relations , the two countries did reach an agreement on Feb. 12 to enter joint Korean teams for two international sporting events . |
| 19 | Unlike their failure to collaborate in the atomic field , the two countries did decide to work together on missiles . |
| 20 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 21 | year but the end result came when the two children did get took into foster care erm , that 's when I realized that it was a problem and I had to do something about it . |
| 22 | Last night , the psychic researchers did hear something strange … up in the attic . |
| 23 | The new measures did bring about a large flow of resources to the disadvantaged . |
| 24 | Eventually , many of the sordid facts did come out , in the public trial of Lieutenant Calley . |