Example sentences of "they did [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As these young people were already disturbed these factors can not be claimed to have predated disturbed behaviour , but they did exist prior to the appearance of psychotic-like disorders . |
| 2 | Although they were not avowedly political , they did make political pronouncements and had a ‘ privilege of approaching the Throne ’ which , by the end of the nineteenth century , had lapsed through disuse . |
| 3 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 4 | Out there in peaceful Vancouver , going about our ordinary daily tasks , even though they did make sizeable contributions to the war effort , there were some of us who felt we were not doing enough , and some of us who wanted to get into ‘ the action ’ . |
| 5 | However , they did make important contributions to the education of local residents involved in the problems of vandalism , lack of recreational facilities and housing . |
| 6 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 7 | The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
| 8 | They did exercise great influence . |
| 9 | One leading poverty campaigner says : ‘ With the previous reviews at least they did consult outside bodies . |
| 10 | As you can imagine , his pet dragons did not grow very large , but they did grow lazy and fat and tame . |
| 11 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 12 | No , you picked up i I mean , I put that she recognized the gap between you know , the Russian ally to the Ger , I presume they did have Russian ally . |
| 13 | Since most employment rights are dependent upon the possession of a record of continuous service with a single employer , most casual workers would fail to qualify for most of these rights even if they did have dependent employee status . |
| 14 | Cos the f the the the they did have pneumatic drilling machines quarries . |
| 15 | When they did get good they 'd be one of the biggest bands in the world , the Fish predicted . |
| 16 | We had nice erm when I went to Angie 's they did like proper Tandoori chicken with , they made up and erm all these other , they did a er chick pea and something else like Indian thing . |
| 17 | The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children . |
| 18 | In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 19 | The Italian Serie B side looked yards ahead in terms of skill and pace , and although Pompey fought hard to equalise , they did look vulnerable on the break . |
| 20 | Yeah when I went in the ladies loo there was one woman in there and they did look nice |
| 21 | Erm anonymous , my son joined the paras five years ago and he was bullied , and another anonymous person from Rugby , my two children were in the army and though they were n't bullied they did see horrific things happening to other lads . |
| 22 | And I looked at people I passed a bit more , and all of a sudden they did seem nice and smiled back . |
| 23 | Yet they did live near to each other , so there might be danger . |
| 24 | Moreover , the vast majority of the peasantry were already semi-socialist : they were not yet persuaded of the need for collective farming , but they did reject private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands . |
| 25 | Whatever ensued , the United Company of Undertakers did not receive livery status , though they did excite sufficient interest to merit a sarcastic caricature from William Hogarth entitled ‘ The Company of Undertakers ’ , and with the motto ‘ Et Plurima Mortis Imago ’ — ‘ The Very Picture of Death ’ . |
| 26 | They did find high incidence of eye diseases among local animals , but in each case they concluded that the most likely cause was infection from a common pathogen . |
| 27 | Likewise , they did use innovative architects , men like George Baines , W. W. Pocock , James Cubitt and Alfred Waterhouse . |
| 28 | Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions , but they did require certain forms of expenditure . |