Example sentences of "did [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did eat jelly with chopsticks — as I said ! |
| 2 | ‘ Though , ’ she qualified , ‘ I did enjoy botany at school , and I 'd love to see your ghost orchids . ’ |
| 3 | He did give power to schools and parents , but that made him enemies . |
| 4 | It has one very curious feature ; it was drawn up by one ‘ Henry Balfour , priest of Dunkeld diocese , notary public by apostolic authority ’ , who was in fact no notary at all , and this did give ground for doubt . |
| 5 | But , but , he did win four tournaments , he did finish second to Norman on the money list , and he did end his season with a startlingly brilliant final round , an 8-under par 63 at the Champions course in Houston to give him third place in the rich Nabisco Championships . |
| 6 | Where employers did see value in work experience schemes , it had to do with information about career choices . |
| 7 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 8 | I supposed that it did endorse part of Ewen Mackay 's story . |
| 9 | Penry did use persuasion on Leonora next time they met , but it had nothing to do with becoming her lover . |
| 10 | The poor would at least have a common school with the advantaged in society , enjoy a common programme and though this in itself did not mark equality of outcomes it did secure equality of access . |
| 11 | I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques . |
| 12 | The Ramsey chronicle of c.1170 , for example , claims to have used charters , some written in English , while there is good reason to think that the historian of Ely Abbey did have access to records compiled in Anglo-Saxon in the late tenth century and translated into Latin in the early twelfth . |
| 13 | But her husband did have consolation on Saturday , as we talked over Scotch and Peking duck : the sound of American cheers for his robust version of Boris Godunov . |
| 14 | you did overlook death in service benefits and it is important when you 're doing life cover to take |
| 15 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 16 | However , Ambrose also found that these ‘ spiralists ’ did take part in community life , and did n't see the village as a transient bus stop as Pahl had forecast . |
| 17 | Bilateral talks did take place between Israel and Syria , and between Israel and Lebanon . |
| 18 | Nevertheless liaison did take place with CAB specialist welfare rights units . |
| 19 | The world was created ; man and woman were made in God 's image ; the fall did take place in time . |
| 20 | So the result is that , where people did take notice of Freud , and here Talker Parsons is the prime example , they interpreted Freud as if he too were a cultural determinist . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , infusion of PYY at much higher concentrations ( two orders of magnitude higher ) did produce inhibition of motility . |
| 22 | This is an aspect of canal finance for recognition rather than exaggeration , for at no time did total investment in waterways approach the sum in the " funds " . |
| 23 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 24 | But you did get respect from people . |
| 25 | Acton did advise restraint for men , both inside and outside marriage , as a solution to the problem of promiscuity and infection . |
| 26 | Years before , I did telephone sex with Pamela , from a musty office in Baron 's Court . |
| 27 | And he did turn water into wine . ’ |
| 28 | However , the proximity of Mr. Tee to Winchester , as it was perceived by Norwich , did cause concern to Norwich , and on 11 May they wrote to the applicant , requesting that he ensured ‘ that [ Mr. Tee ] does not attend Winchester Group 's premises or is in any way involved with the running of the business . ’ |
| 29 | Reagan 's anti-Communism did find sympathy in Europe , from Britain 's Margaret Thatcher and , after 1982 , from the new German Chancellor , Helmut Kohl . |