Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbie would have been happy to listen quietly , for the snippets she did overhear told her more about Fenton Marshall . |
| 2 | The elections to the Convention were the least contentious of any of the general elections held under the later Stuarts : few of the contests which did occur were fought along party lines , and a number of constituencies returned one Whig and one Tory unopposed . |
| 3 | In the fourteenth century even judges had been remarkably ignorant of the statutes which they had to enforce ; lawcourts sometimes did not even possess copies of particular acts ; and the copies which did exist were marred by gross errors . |
| 4 | ‘ The fans who did turn up gave us tremendous support and I know they 'll be back but it would be nice to have an even bigger crowd roaring us on . ’ |
| 5 | His submission was that where the words of a statute were ambiguous or obscure or were capable of giving rise to an absurd conclusion it should be legitimate to look at the Parliamentary history , including the debates in Parliament , for the purpose of identifying the intention of Parliament in using the words it did use . |
| 6 | At the same time , I 'm elated and I can go back to the vices I did have , ’ said Mr Tyson . |
| 7 | Very quickly erm er the Mrs said that er yes I do have a direct er line to God and one of the messages he did give me was that I should start to write Focus . |
| 8 | But the credits she did have outweighed such difficulties . |
| 9 | For the classes who did have enough to bequeath , we have valuable evidence about the patterns of inheritance preferred in the early nineteenth century from a variety of sources , especially a study by Davidoff and Hall ( 1987 ) of 622 wills made in two different areas of England during the period 1780–1850 . |
| 10 | Well one of the things we did do immediately after the er youth consultation is that we erm , we erected a paid for a skate board ramp at erm one of the youth centres in , in Harlow , so you know , we we creating that facility , but erm , what , you , so you your question was more directed at providing more of those kind of facilities . |
| 11 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 12 | He was only being polite , saying the things you did say to someone to whom you were close in an unusual situation . |
| 13 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |
| 14 | I also jot down the questions I did answer and ask myself if my answers were open or closed . |
| 15 | The chants which did catch my ear on sat were that newish Brian Deane one again , but I still have n't heard the beginning , I only know it from the ‘ scores off the bar , f**k Cantona ’ line — anyone else know it in full ? |
| 16 | ‘ But when you looked into the wings you did know . |
| 17 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 18 | He thus denied himself any further influence , but the radicals who did join what was now called the Derry Citizens ' Action Committee did not dictate the pace of events and had little which was distinctive to say or propose within the new body . |
| 19 | The children who did come were not familiar . |
| 20 | Er the ones they did ride were the ones they used to drive at erm ah , down the two jars but er and that was a completely different way of life then to what that is now . |
| 21 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 22 | It was so difficult in Australia to get that kind of music on record the ones we did get became very influential ; in fact we wore the bloody things out ! |
| 23 | Yes , like many of the others , I happen to be one of the ones who did go up there and take a look at it , erm , at the time , and I hope that the motion as er , not only to the county archivist but all the staff over there for the very hard work and diligent work of which they put in . |
| 24 | First , that Nigel would refuse entry to anyone to whom he took a dislike , and the ones he did like he would n't want to charge , a distinct disadvantage from a business point of view . |
| 25 | If I recall er when that er the King Street car park was given to the town by the benefactors we did want entrance er at the top end of the car park for the people who shopped which saved a lot of people coming round that dangerous corner where you know we 've had one fatal accident there , and I just wondered whether we should take this under the umbrella while er we 're actually discussing it . |
| 26 | And then the women I did want to go to bed with , but could n't conduct a conversation with . ’ |
| 27 | It was a further miracle that the child has made a full recovery from the injuries he did sustain . ’ |
| 28 | Fool 's Gold director Terry Winsor says : ‘ The truth is extremely elusive but my understanding is that unlike the Great Train Robbers , the boys who did go inside wo n't come out as poor men . ’ |
| 29 | And on the occasions they did manage to create openings , they found Goram in outstanding form . |