Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb infin] a " 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 | They did lift a restriction order that had prevented the children being taken out of Orkney , and this was to prove very significant . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | we was engaged , oh I have talked to other people but we was engaged in making locks but most of the locks , well they did do a , er wardrobe locks , small cabinet locks , lever locks but one of the biggest kind of locks we di er made was the locks for car cars and vans which , in them days , was was fantastic because most of the car bodies was of wood , the , the , the , the framework was wood , so erm the locks er were three or four , four by five er seven by eight and selvedges on them fourteen inches long , er bolts er the , the bolt mechanism would be anything from five eighths to an inch in di er er square with a radius on the end erm th there was er there was the sidecar locks which were smaller erm that was the sort of locks they made . |
| 6 | The orderlies did n't do a lot of work but they did do a lot of talking , and their general cheerfulness had a lifting effect on the corridor as a whole . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Neither programme really effected any change in the course of events , but they did build a sense of trust in those who might one day use us to bear public witness against the Godfathers of terrorism . |
| 9 | where they did build a school for them you see . |
| 10 | Although the 1992 results are not public , a highly-placed source at USL tells us that they did make a small profit last year ( on revenues of $91m ) . |
| 11 | As mentioned above , although the exiled inhabitants of Siberia never amounted to a large proportion of the total population , nevertheless they did make a significant quantitative and qualitative contribution during the seventeenth century to the region 's manpower resources — accounting for around 11 per cent of the total , and engaged in a variety of administrative , military , clerical and agricultural occupations essential to the proper management of the newly-conquered territories . |
| 12 | That said , they did attract an audience decked out in all the cool of high fashion . |
| 13 | ‘ They did suggest a combination of experience and athleticism , ’ smirked Dalziel . |
| 14 | Yet they did face a genuine dilemma , which the simple formulas offered by critics could not resolve . |
| 15 | Those young people , well , they did talk a bit loudly and show off , but they always had a smile and a pleasant word , and they did brighten the place up a bit , you could n't deny it . |
| 16 | they did give a reason . |
| 17 | Although these theories could not easily be deployed in the ‘ real ’ world , they did serve a valuable purpose as condensations of patterns of thought about the media . |
| 18 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They got on very well , nothing homosexual I do n't think , but they did spend a lot of time together . |
| 21 | In addition , while they were not restricted to any one social class , they did develop a clear sense of identity , fostered by a number of distinctive badges , such as their preference for Christian names of an Old Testament origin or of their own elaborate and didactic construction , such as Sin-deny , Be-Thankful , Praise-God , and Sure-Trust . |
| 22 | Although they had no children of their own they did adopt a baby girl from the convalescent home for children at Morris Grange . |
| 23 | I think that they may be frightened to speak up and that they 're scared that if they say something that they do n't know , like a lot of them do n't know the facts , like today , in the same class as Janine across there , some of them did n't know even the very the pro , progression of the male pill or anything like that , and they did learn a few things but a again they never spoke up and they were n't interested , but I |
| 24 | But they did have a drastic effect . |
| 25 | But they did have a very clear idea of how they wanted the house to look and resigned themselves to living with the mess while they tackled it room by room . |
| 26 | I ca n't help but wonder why on earth they did have a different strip for the World Cup . |
| 27 | Some of the children in our study felt desperately disappointed that they had not been adopted , and yet they did have a home which would continue to be available to them in their adult life and had found a kind of loving , though perhaps not the all-accepting , all-loving parent of their dreams . |
| 28 | The restored Stuarts did not have to deal with any difficulty of this sort but they did have a general problem of making sure that the King 's authority was accepted . |
| 29 | Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye . |
| 30 | The solution , therefore , was to make it look as though they did have a choice , but to ensure that they chose Franco . |