Example sentences of "did [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However I did throw in a little bit of doubt , there was a possible objection there that you might have apacked you sound a little bit doubtful Mrs , do you have a problem with that |
| 2 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 3 | However , it was clear that the appellant did qualify for a custodial sentence under Criminal Justice Act 1982 . |
| 4 | The Dar es Salaam-based Government papers , despite their partiality , did act as a valuable forum for public debate . |
| 5 | It is very difficult a Sunday , but it Actually although we did n't take a vote on the bus , the few people that I did speak to a few people , and they were not terrible exited at the idea of of an outing during the week . |
| 6 | This said , the gig did finish with a mass stage invasion , another example of the band gathering an intensely fanatical following . |
| 7 | As expected , shadowing did result in a significant reduction in right field advantage for the verbal task . |
| 8 | Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness . |
| 9 | A favourable monsoon season and a record harvest in 1988-89 of 172,000,000 tonnes of food grain were not enough to prevent the need to continue to import rice and wheat in order to maintain distribution and to provide food for the country 's growing population ; however , the improvement in the agricultural sector did contribute to a major increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) , of 9 per cent in real terms in 1988-89 , helped by increases in industrial and manufacturing production . |
| 10 | The support of school managers did emerge as a key factor in library success . |
| 11 | He did not look like a wolf , but he did look like a young man with an eye for a girl , and techniques that would bear watching . |
| 12 | The Pope did officiate at a public mass at the Lighthouse on Oct. 11 . |
| 13 | The Universe actually did begin with a Big Bang . |
| 14 | Since women had for centuries been instructed to use the masculine possessive pronoun when referring to the whole human race , why should n't there be some belated corrective action , even if it did stick in a few ( masculine ) throats ? |
| 15 | In the early 1790s , however , like canals , the trusts did feature in a general investment boom , as they did again in 1809 – 12 . |
| 16 | Certain aspects of the Protestant assault on popular religious culture did meet with a limited degree of success . |
| 17 | Although she did call for a fuller apprenticeship for women , Amelia McLean did not argue ( nor did anyone else ) that the Monotype made old-fashioned apprentice ships redundant , and that by a historical reversal of the usual procedure , women compositors in 1910 actually controlled a skilled process while men did not . |
| 18 | Bevin did not accept Attlee 's idea of resiting Britain 's main base in Africa , but he did share in a developing view that Africa should play a much greater role in Britain 's imperial policy , especially because of its ( alleged ) economic potential . |
| 19 | However , Mr Hassell did end on a positive note — at least for leasing , if not for other forms of business finance . |
| 20 | The imminence of the general election , now impinging on all aspects of political life , did lead to a temporary public truce . |
| 21 | They occur in many other lakes and rivers in Africa , but have never lived in the present Victoria ( though they did live in a prehistoric lake on the same site ) . |
| 22 | They seemed silly and childish and so much less wise than us who really did live in a drab and depressing world and yet found happiness in it . |
| 23 | In my judgment … the placing of the new lock and chain and gate did amount to a final unequivocal demonstration of the defendant 's intention to possess the land . |
| 24 | As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices . |
| 25 | McCoist did snatch at a mistimed clearance from Buttigieg but by then the appeal of a substitution was growing at the same rate as the crowd 's dismay . |
| 26 | The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services . |