Example sentences of "did [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 2 | The sharpest clash occurred in the village of Bezdna in the eastern province of Kazan " , where a certain Anton Petrov began claiming that the statutes really did grant wholesale freedom . |
| 3 | One leading poverty campaigner says : ‘ With the previous reviews at least they did consult outside bodies . |
| 4 | There was no feeling , as there was among Catholics , that priests were indispensable : heads of families could and did conduct simplified forms of service in front of their domestic icons . |
| 5 | ( The Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 , which introduced statutory control over exclusion clauses in sale contracts did make certain clauses " void " , and there are provisions making contract terms " void " in other legislation , such as the Consumer Credit Act 1974 . ) |
| 6 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 7 | Although they were not avowedly political , they did make political pronouncements and had a ‘ privilege of approaching the Throne ’ which , by the end of the nineteenth century , had lapsed through disuse . |
| 8 | However , they did make important contributions to the education of local residents involved in the problems of vandalism , lack of recreational facilities and housing . |
| 9 | Out there in peaceful Vancouver , going about our ordinary daily tasks , even though they did make sizeable contributions to the war effort , there were some of us who felt we were not doing enough , and some of us who wanted to get into ‘ the action ’ . |
| 10 | Mr Jones said : ‘ He did make reference to the letter in the speech that he made and he did make positive noises but whether they will translate into positive actions we 'll have to wait and see . ’ |
| 11 | However , it must be emphasised that all the women who chose not to register for work actually did want paid employment and took up any employment opportunities which arose ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 12 | The new congress did lack consequential leaders and congressional reform and the further weakening of political parties had brought about a variety of undesirable developments . |
| 13 | Of course people did discuss public matters in public . |
| 14 | Whatever ensued , the United Company of Undertakers did not receive livery status , though they did excite sufficient interest to merit a sarcastic caricature from William Hogarth entitled ‘ The Company of Undertakers ’ , and with the motto ‘ Et Plurima Mortis Imago ’ — ‘ The Very Picture of Death ’ . |
| 15 | Unlike Scotland , where incest was punishable by death up to 1887 , or several American states , England had no civil law on incest in the nineteenth century , although the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 did include incestuous adultery as grounds for divorce . |
| 16 | No because the figure I quoted did include outstanding planning permissions for conversions . |
| 17 | In Vienna the Secession did win representative status from the Austrian government and was , for example , able to mount exhibitions in foreign expositions . |
| 18 | Seats* Percentage Proportional Constituency Total of vote** representation seats BSP 47.15 97 114 211 UDF 37.84 75 69 144 BZNS 8.03 16 0 16 MRF 6.03 12 11 23 Fatherland Union *** 0 2 2 BSDP 0.05 0 1 1 Fatherland Party of Labour *** 0 1 1 Independents *** 0 2 2 Others 0.90 0 0 0 Total 200 200 400 *Only parties receiving at least 4 per cent of valid votes in all multi-member constituencies could win seats on a proportional basis ( although other parties could and did win direct election ) . |
| 19 | But it did cultivate good will . " |
| 20 | His research suggested that while the " Explanation approach " had little impact on infants , the technique did yield measurable benefits with 7 to 9 year olds . |
| 21 | However , there was one measure of early interaction that did predict social competence in three year olds . |
| 22 | It was true that as he progressed , with Nicholson and his soon-to-be-famous contemporaries on hand for adventurous collaboration , Corman did attack social issues involving drugs , homosexuality and the ever-popular parental generation gap . |
| 23 | However , she did need professional help . |
| 24 | But it did need permanent supervision of weapons , gunpowder , and equipment ; and this was provided by the emergence under Henry VIII of a centralized Ordnance Office . |
| 25 | The authorities did seek reserve powers by making all land subject to compulsory purchase , although they intended to leave most of it in the developers ' hands . |
| 26 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 27 | However , the majority of studies did show increased adhesiveness in diabetic subjects with ( Valdorf-Hansen , 1967 ; Badawi et al , 1970 ; Hellem , 1971 ) and without ( Shaw et al , 1967 ; Hellem , 1971 ) vascular disease . |
| 28 | Mr Delors and his colleagues did show guarded enthusiasm for the proposal . |
| 29 | It must be borne in mind that the majority of these data have been derived from subjects younger than 65 years ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) so that the effect of hypotensive drugs in the older age-groups regardless of their blood-pressure status was largely unknown until the recent publication of the European Working Party Trial which did show significant benefits in the elderly ( Amery et al , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | It did show excellent character to bounce back from the start … one plus point from the first half . |