Example sentences of "that the [noun pl] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know it would have been possible to have left the switch alone but — given a bit of forward planning and some wire — to have completed an ad hoc electrical circuit so that the wipers did start to work , just as and when they did . |
| 2 | It seemed that both incomers and Shetlanders presumed that the researchers did have a clearcut image of conflict in the area and that they were just fiddling about trying to show it , rather than attempting to do something about it ( e.g. putting the incomers somewhere else , helping out the incomers for once , etc . ) . |
| 3 | Senator Jesse Helms , the arch-conservative North Carolinian Republican , says he was told by the CIA , as well as sources within Panama , that the rebels did offer to surrender General Noriega to the US . |
| 4 | Vercingetorix , Boudicca and a few Druids are allowed to remind the schoolboys of the European community that the Celts did exist in the age of the Romans . |
| 5 | Suffice as it 's to say that the negotiations did provide for extra seats for Germany in account of the additional population that accrued to Germany from the reunification of East and West Germany and er er at the same time the opportunity was taken to allot some extra seats to some other countries er which erm bore in mind er more closely than before , the respective differences in population sizes of the various countries that make up the community , er the two special committees that I referred to Mr Deputy Speaker , were set up in July nineteen ninety three . |
| 6 | It may well be that the police did have justification in their reasonable fear that a breach of the peace would ensue if they did not remain where they were , and if they did not issue instructions to the appellants to leave . |
| 7 | In addition to this breach of the moral duty of fidelity , the court appears to have been concerned with the risk of confidential information being passed to competitors , because it was satisfied that the plaintiffs did own certain business secrets of which the employees had knowledge . |