Example sentences of "he did [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Rochester did er did er , when he was trying to rebuke himself for committing what was bigamy , and the works , he said , when he compared his own wife , who was really a mental animal because she very bestial the way she bit people , and then , he compared her with this sweet , dewy-eyed Jane , he did give a reason did n't he ? |
| 2 | cook my dinner , ooh he did deliver a bacon casserole , mm , it 's hot is n't it ? |
| 3 | He did tinker a bit with the machine . |
| 4 | Though Amiss was not entirely convinced that Trueman had been murdered , he did feel a sense of unease about the Admiral 's safety , so he was relieved to see that he seemed to be getting on rather better with his committee colleagues than the Sunday experiences had promised . |
| 5 | He took part in the Fifth Comintern ( June — July 1924 ) where he did make a mark . |
| 6 | He did make a visit to Rangoon , either in December 1945 or January 1946 , when he called on the Governor who noted on a draft ‘ Nu snubbed ’ . |
| 7 | He did paint a kind of rosy picture , did n't he ? |
| 8 | He did paint a number of portraits , but a painting of a piebald pony in the window of his studio was so lifelike that people started to ask him to paint animals . |
| 9 | This was where he came from — not in any self-pity — ( although there could have been an excuse for that , in the bitter harvest of the coalfields ) — nor with any attempt to show off ( although the battles he had fought and won to achieve what he did deserved a boast ) — those stories were told and retold to keep the faith . |
| 10 | Speed was a bit of a non event ( although he did score a goal ! ) and Deane lumbered about a bit , but was strong when he got the ball . |
| 11 | It was , however , reported by his personal staff that he did manage a smirk when he had been told the story of how his arch rival and competitor had been conned by his countrymen on a flag-flying visit to the auld counthrie . |
| 12 | In the absence of Philip and Storie , George Reifer will open the batting with Bruce Patterson , Clydesdale 's new professional , and though Reifer has not had too much experience of going in first , he did open a couple of times during his 15-game spell with Barbados . |
| 13 | Nevertheless he did suggest a remission of duty to one-fifteenth on all ore mined in the sole of Taylor 's Level ; on the N.W. course of the vein on Deep Level ; and in all the ground S.E. of the Deep Level Cross-cut intersection . |
| 14 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 15 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 16 | He did bring a picture with him : one of Gifford 's that Edwin was going to frame for us . ’ |
| 17 | True drama erupted , however , in August 1913 , when the much beleaguered NSFU Glasgow branch secretary , Albert French , was charged " that on 18 June 1913 , in Clyde Place , Glasgow , he did discharge a magazine pistol loaded with ball cartridge at James Martin , sometime resident at 75 , Finnieston Street , Glasgow , and now deceased , and did shoot him and murder him " . |
| 18 | However , everyone else advised him to do it and it was probably the most catalystic thing he could have done at that period , although I had the feeling even if he did get a hit , it was something he could n't follow up because I knew the style of his writing . |
| 19 | He usually travels well , but he did get a bit upset on the way back from the World Cup final in Gothenburg when we had a very rough crossing . |
| 20 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 21 | Most people got to hear about it afterwards and he did get a bit of stick . |
| 22 | He did n't help in anyway but he did get a lot |
| 23 | He did buy a couple of new ones in China . |
| 24 | The scenery was grim , the food was unappetising , fashion was all but non-existent ( he did buy a Burberry raincoat — his ‘ famous blue raincoat ’ — which he adorned till someone relieved him of it in New York 20 years later ) , the arts were struggling , almost moribund , despite the explosive qualities of Kingsley Amis , John Osborne , Colin Wilson , and Alan Sillitoe ; and the weather was atrocious . |
| 25 | In fact , I now know of three occasions when he did use a double . ’ |
| 26 | But , though Gloucester refused the crown , he did attend a meeting of the barons in Normandy to discuss an alternative to himself . |
| 27 | Colman 's wartime and postwar work before the camera was less distinguished , though he did win an Oscar in 1947 for an uncharacteristically highly charged dramatic role in A Double Life before moving on to a lucrative second career in American radio and television , playing the professor in Halls of Ivy ( 1950–2 ) , a series he also produced and owned . |
| 28 | He did sound a bit Mummerset from time to time . |
| 29 | ‘ He did lose a child , ’ said Sukey . |
| 30 | But if it could be said that he did have a weakness for something , it was for Ireland and the Irish . |