Example sentences of "did [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Doctors from the hospital told the coroner that although it was ’ highly unusual ’ for such a thing to occur , such complications did arise from time to time .
2 Unlike Faulkner 's discussion group , the Parliamentarians could and did agitate for action to be taken on certain issues for which there was all party support .
3 However , others did not satisfy the requirement and the section did apply with respect to those particular transfers .
4 I never established anything like a friendship with him , but our paths did cross from time to time .
5 Those who did read from end to end discovered that , far from giving its blessing to ever-expanding production and consumption , it pointed out its futility .
6 The U S did cut off aid to Chile after the Chilean government had nationalised the copper mines with token compensation , but was not able to prevent other Western governments from continuing to extend aid .
7 One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction .
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