Example sentences of "did [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did explain what this was but I did n't catch all he said and I wonder if you could give me a little more detail ? |
| 2 | never tell , a girl we know went over at the same time as he did got it this year . |
| 3 | However , the goal posts having been established , it did make it all much easier . |
| 4 | Well Geoff did buy me some sherry glasses he says oh , you give me two |
| 5 | She might not know too much about men — her adult experiences had been confined to Hugh Forster — but she did know her own sex . |
| 6 | Did y'hear what that broccoli said about the theory of relativity ? |
| 7 | Captaincy did advance his own game . |
| 8 | she did show me that and then she 's got it like straps on it where she can take it off but er oh she |
| 9 | At the same time , he did embody his own message , so that it could be said that in him , ‘ the divine appeared in as pure a form as is possible on earth ’ . |
| 10 | My wife began , I know not whether by design or chance , to enquire what she should do , if I should by any accident die , to which I did give her some slight answer , but shall make good use of it to bring myself to some settlement for her sake , by making a will as soon as I can . ‘ |
| 11 | ‘ We did give him this massive bouquet , though , ’ said Debi . |
| 12 | But the mid-engined layout did give us all kinds of new problems ; rear visibility , thermal and acoustic insulation of the passenger compartment , engine ventilation . |
| 13 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 14 | Izzie 's right : I did bring you all your trouble . |
| 15 | More self-indulgent self-important twaddle , the product of a rock star who really did believe his own press , his own myth . |
| 16 | Overall , headhunting did create its own demand , and it is still arguable that many companies can do without it ; indeed , many do . |
| 17 | Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment . |
| 18 | Then she insisted , ‘ It was a very kind thing you did … even if you did risk us all getting hung ! ’ |
| 19 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 20 | He did n't often take advice from me , thank goodness , but I did have one little triumph . |
| 21 | The same applies to the upholstering of the outer flat-lidded shaped-shouldered velvet-covered cases of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , though some coffin-makers and funeral furnishers did have their own patterns when it came to the application of the round-headed upholstery pins — as noticed in the east Gostling vault beneath St John 's Church , Egham , Surrey , used from 1817–41 , where each of the five coffins had a similar cross motif between the three side panels — whilst others introduced variety through the use of two complementary colours of velvet . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 24 | Yes , maybe I did have them all , or a good number of them anyway . |
| 25 | To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein . |
| 26 | She did have it all bandaged up , she were she were cleaning toilet at bottom , and er , apparently there was a piece out of it and she did n't know , and she wiped round it , it sliced it , and it were bleeding like mad , well she came across to our 'ouse , and we were n't in , and then she went to Kevin 's and she had she had it , but it , now it 's just like a line now , |
| 27 | He did not yet have a chancery of his own , but it seems he did have his own chapel , that is , a team of household chaplains ( presumably equipped with relics ) . |
| 28 | But I did select my own peg words and you will have to do this too . |
| 29 | Er Stuart , Stuart did phone me some months ago on this issue , to say he was having increasing difficulty getting to the meetings , and he asked me if er I would take it on , and I said , I would if , you know , if he were pushed . |
| 30 | Shaun did match her that day . |