Example sentences of "they did [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , they did conclude an Agreement on 15 June 1905 to supply electric current to the Company 's Penge tramways at 2 pence per unit from Churchfields Road Power Station . |
| 2 | But they did carry an extra two-gallon can , and had to resort to it three times . |
| 3 | Erm , as I said F T volumes are flat but er , they , they , they did achieve an increase in the yield erm , but forward bookings are much better at the F T and October looks rather better , so I think advertisement volumes are , are on the increase . |
| 4 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |
| 5 | That said , they did attract an audience decked out in all the cool of high fashion . |
| 6 | They did kill an estimated 1,500 Japanese for the loss of only 40 of their own men ; a sharp contrast to the 166,500 Allied losses ( mostly prisoners ) in Malaya , Hong Kong , and in the Dutch East Indies , where the Japanese lost only 15,000 men in the campaigns of the 1940–41 winter . |
| 7 | Yet they did have an important influence on the evolution of bargaining structure and the characteristic form which it assumed . |
| 8 | If they did have an effect , it was in a negative direction discouraging long-term planning ( Fine and Harris , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | The recommendations of the Commission were not entirely adopted , but they did have an impact on the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act 1950 , which provided for a federal budget based on the functions and activities of the government . |
| 10 | But I never ever had a running line , although they did have an order for so many like that and I 'd keep the patterns and the gages and if they wanted any more later on , you know , I used to do that sort of thing for the sake of me customers and all that . |
| 11 | And he says it 's more than I 've given the others because they did have an increase . |
| 12 | Although LEAs have sometimes held on to powers at the centre which prevented decisions being made quickly and flexibly , they did provide an education service which allowed an effective response to diversity and need . |