Example sentences of "did [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 've I I did think at one time whether to pass a note , bye ! |
| 2 | We did think about this point last night . |
| 3 | So we did suggest and I did believe your party to support erm , a process where we did consult with local people but we also took other factors into consideration . |
| 4 | Where the misconduct complained of consists of both words and conduct , it seems likely that both will be considered by the magistrates in deciding whether or not what the defendant did amounted to disorderly conduct . |
| 5 | What did remain in that paper , that year , was a hankering after what had survived from 1967 , exemplified in the prose of John Peel . |
| 6 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 7 | What the neo-Darwinists have in their favour is almost irrefutable evidence arising from recent advances in the techniques of molecular biology and genetic engineering which virtually prove that modern species did evolve from common ancestors . |
| 8 | Er it 's difficult for people to appreciate today er the amount of political activity that took place during this early thirty period , and it 's pe difficult for people to appreciate the political understanding that did exist over this period . |
| 9 | To be sure , bitterness which did exist in some quarters between Protestants and Catholics both then and now has not affected Jews , thankfully . |
| 10 | It did exist in those parts of ‘ modernizing ’ industry which were part of the engineering industry and involved skilled labour in manufacture , as distinct from the Fordist production practices of process plants . |
| 11 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p. 147 ) did approve of one book : ‘ This is the first book Émile will read ; for a long time it will form his whole library and it will always retain an honoured place . |
| 12 | Mattie Barkess said : ‘ He did act with considerable sympathy towards his victim . ’ |
| 13 | Erm if we actually look erm and I do n't know if we did introduce to all members Bryony who is my assistant and who works very largely on the programme with me and on the educational and events side , and is acting minute secretary while Judith is on maternity leave . |
| 14 | In fact nobody knows exactly what Galileo did promise at this meeting in 1616 , but his enemies , by a gangster-like trick , did much later produce an unsigned document ( long after Bellarmine was dead ) claiming that Galileo had promised not to teach or publicise the Copernican doctrine . |
| 15 | But even if that is held to be culpable ignorance , it can not be assumed that if the voters did know of those plans or intentions they approved of them . |
| 16 | All he did know at this moment was that it seemed a shame a girl such as Maggie here , with brains , because she was no fool , and a talent such as she had , should be encased in a body that held no appeal . |
| 17 | And he , Neil Cochrane , really did know about such Birds of Paradise , for had he not been loved and betrayed by one , and learned his bitter lesson — never to love or trust a woman again ? |
| 18 | The main sponsors of the meeting , Professors Matthew Meselson of Harvard University and Carl Kaysen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , declined to answer questions about the meeting , Those who did speak to New Scientist did not know whether a summary of the discussions would be made public , |
| 19 | But , let's notice that , first of all , the Lord really did speak to this woman ! |
| 20 | In this chapter , I look at what would happen if the acoustic-phonetic front-end did achieve near perfect performance . |
| 21 | Mary did refer to Scottish affairs in her letters , but under the influence of the cardinal , and in a manner which visibly lacked the vigorous interest shown in her determination to get rid of her governess . |
| 22 | Moreover , despite the conservatism in design , the capital cost per MW of generating stations did decline in real terms , by more than a quarter in the period affected by the BEA 's decisions in its first five years , a decline almost as rapid as that achieved later . |
| 23 | However , as we have seen , there is little evidence that such poverty did decline in this period ; indeed the survival of more mouths to fed may have increased it . |
| 24 | The pressure — it 'll be off them , they are no longer champions — but let's remember they did finish in fourth place and I 've got a feeling that they 're not giving anything away at Oxford Speedway , because they never do . |
| 25 | This could and did result in nasty crash landings which could set the bombs off . |
| 26 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , Reichsführer , but German paratroopers did land on English soil and fought a bloody battle . |
| 28 | Belgium 's most prestigious museum did benefit to some extent , but far less than anticipated . |
| 29 | But both kings did benefit from public gatherings of bishops and great men , largely though not exclusively from within the duchy of Francia , on the model of the assembly Philip I had called to Orléans in 1077 . |
| 30 | I did touch on this problem a good many years ago in an essay I wrote on the death of a great music-hall artist , Marie Lloyd . |