Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There might be some very well-intentioned people in them , but the institutions nevertheless did discriminate . |
| 2 | The intriguing point is this : if the Germans really did land in East Anglia in 1940 , and there was an elaborate cover-up , it is surely inconceivable that Ealing would have been allowed by the censors to portray such an accurate reconstruction only two years later . |
| 3 | The Elizabethans certainly did like it , and it has been a popular favourite ever since . |
| 4 | The Conservatives never did mount an efficient and effective campaign . |
| 5 | All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say . |
| 6 | The sharpest clash occurred in the village of Bezdna in the eastern province of Kazan " , where a certain Anton Petrov began claiming that the statutes really did grant wholesale freedom . |
| 7 | However , Goody 's claims for the ‘ consequences ’ of literacy are couched in such a way that they do require it : he imposes upon himself the obligation to establish that the Greeks really did achieve the distinction of ‘ myth ’ from ‘ history ’ if his claims for literacy are to be credible . |
| 8 | The Vikings certainly did cause extensive damage to property in the short term . |
| 9 | So you can imagine that erm , er during the war of course , th they buses made because they made to the trolley buses made plenty of money because erm , labour was cheap and erm , you had the soldiers they were , lot of them , no other form of transport , petrol rationing and that , so the buses really did come into their own during the war . |
| 10 | Ferngrove Park , with its woods and meadows and deep thickets full of secret nooks and crannies , was a place where the Brownies really did have a grand time . |
| 11 | It must be noted first that the Liberals really did have something to hide over Marconi , but it must be . |
| 12 | The ‘ false dawn of courtesy ’ was over and the pupils really did accept each other . |
| 13 | I mean before they came to the centre I think people felt Save The Children only did work in countries abroad . |
| 14 | I still needed evidence in black and white that the inches really did disappear from areas previously impossible to reduce — namely the hips and thighs . |
| 15 | I do n't think the boys ever did have far to go , but Weenie did have . ’ |
| 16 | Coupled with this , the rains eventually did come . |