Example sentences of "it did [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 Despite the limitations of the survey it did suggest some clear habitat preferences and population trends .
2 Direction , one felt , was needed , and up to a point , with soloists Neil Black and William Bennett , it did make some impact .
3 A police spokesman said the house , in Old Road , was up for sale and was unoccupied , although it did contain some furniture .
4 In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership .
5 Although it did envisage some mergers with universities , the emphasis throughout was very much on strengthening the public sector of higher education .
6 However , it did take some time for the mother church to readjust after this second labour and birth .
7 But it did take some time .
8 But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time .
9 However , it did provide some valuable indications of what to expect in the races ahead .
10 That indeed was the case , with the appearance of another loose intergovernmental structure , a Conference of European Ministers of Transport , which could only suggest and advise — though it did have some success in persuading ten states to sign a convention on cooperation and coordination of their rail networks in 1953 .
11 You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year .
12 Egypt , was intense and highly concentrated , it did have some dramatic moments , such as my taxying accident .
13 In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated .
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