Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time later a creditor did succeed in having him removed to a sponging house , where friends subscribed £500 to make life more bearable for him . |
| 2 | The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers . |
| 3 | These are practical limits on the beneficiary 's powers , for , although it will not usually be difficult to determine whether a real price was paid , it will regularly be very hard for a beneficiary to show that a buyer did know of the existence of a trust ; and unless this can be shown , no action lies . |
| 4 | We can not imagine it , yet it is possible , and if such a change did come to one of us , there would be pain for both and merely afterwards friendship … |
| 5 | There was not a great deal of transatlantic cruising in those days , but whenever a yacht did sail into the harbour Peter rowed over and introduced himself . |
| 6 | ‘ A boat did arrive last night , after Hector Luath had gone to his bed . |
| 7 | This would mean that a marriage did exist ; but doubtless it would not be beyond the wit of the courts to arrange things so that the question of ancillary relief received short shrift . |
| 8 | It 's true you know if a di if a child did come out the gate , with that wee fella yesterday I saw him he was with Ryan and he went up that path like lightning . |
| 9 | Palace aides secretly expect that if a divorce did take place , Charles would renounce his right to the throne . |
| 10 | Her jeep was blocking that infernal track completely , so until a tow-truck did turn up there was no way out anyway ! |
| 11 | When a run did develop on the bank after Tiananmen , the Hong Kong government was ready to deal with it . |
| 12 | Try to focus on the positive , on what a scene did achieve rather than what it did n't ; give them a vocabulary for talking about the work . |
| 13 | If a motorist did enter , he would eventually get a bill . |
| 14 | We can be fairly certain that such a reaction did occur , not merely because it is observable among modern primates , but because it had to exist if young males were , in due course of time , to supplant the fathers , and this , for the purposes of reproduction , they had to do . |
| 15 | Almost exactly a year later , a bomb did go off in the basement car park during the evening rush hour , causing many minor casualties , and about £350m in damage , about ten per cent of which was ultimately reinsured in the London market . |
| 16 | HaYing said all this I must confess that , because there is so much uncertainty in the calculations , if a chemist did succeed in creating spontaneous life I would not actually be disconcerted ! |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 18 | There are those who feel , for instance , that a revolution did take place but not one which achieved positive effects ; or others who dispute the existence of an English revolution but who do not adhere to a neo-conservative interpretation of English history . |
| 19 | We even had a hot line set up between the reception at London Weekend and Number 10 , and a call did come through , but thankfully it was after we 'd done the show , when she was having a drink in the hospitality room . |
| 20 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 21 | At that moment , a voice did call , so that she jerked with shock . |
| 22 | I am sure being a headmaster did affect his ideas on child-rearing , but as I said , we were very happy . |
| 23 | When a coinage did reappear in the reign of the Northumbrian king , Eanred , in the early ninth century it did so at a lower silver standard which continued to decline . |
| 24 | A bus did come , but not surprisingly it was not going through the City as it usually did . |
| 25 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 26 | If such a number did exist , it would be the last member of the series of cardinals arranged in the order of magnitude . |
| 27 | This year , however , a volunteer did come forward : Routledge UK sales manager Alan Leitch . |
| 28 | The play was necessarily a matinee , and as we went down past the Albert Hall a siren did go . |
| 29 | Even if such a system did exist it is unlikely that it would appeal to lay users of a dictionary . |
| 30 | At one time the local authority would have provided only one library service — the public library — and if a school did have its own library it would probably have been administered by the public library . |