Example sentences of "they did [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | they did offer some postcards yesterday . |
| 2 | There was no sign of any sheep , but they did notice some strange-looking footprints in the earth by the house . |
| 3 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 4 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 5 | ‘ As a matter of fact , they did have some news . ’ |
| 6 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 7 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
| 8 | In the end , they did get some players and I have said I am pretty satisfied that the England players who went did n't go for money . |
| 9 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 10 | And I felt that they did need some kind of ongoing support . |
| 11 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 12 | However , they did find some evidence that the price of index futures leads the spot price ( S&P500 index ) by some 20–45 minutes . |
| 13 | Ehrich and Koehler ( 1975 ) also produced a script recognition system which did not use real time information in its coding scheme , although they did use some sequence information . |