Example sentences of "did [verb] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home . |
| 2 | If we did evolve one species into another , why are there no half-fish or half-humans today ? |
| 3 | But she did make one request . |
| 4 | He did make one slip , of course — referring to Kemijärvi . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 6 | She did not reflect that only a few weeks ago she would have thought it impossible that she could have lived the life of a servant , let alone bear eating and drinking in the den in which Rose and her ma lived , but she did know one thing — she would never take her comfortable life for granted again . |
| 7 | But she did know one thing . |
| 8 | Although he did n't like the thought of having his own son sail with him , the idea did present one advantage at least : by doing so , he would put a stop to any further goings on between Tristram and Jennifer . |
| 9 | But besides the lull in firing the rains did bring one advantage ; the spectators were driven away from the hill above the melon beds . |
| 10 | Tell you what I did watch one night in the week on Sky was erm they 've er they 've done a feature on erm all these karate actors , you know , the best ones |
| 11 | The Jesuits did convert one king , whereupon the Abuna absolved his subjects from their allegiance ; and in the subsequent rebellion the king was killed . |
| 12 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |
| 13 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , I remember now , ’ she said : ‘ I did have one dream , just as I was waking up . |
| 15 | ‘ I did have one idea , ’ Dougal said . |
| 16 | Halstead did have one man worth £300 , but among the remaining 148 taxpayers there was only one worth £80 and one worth 40 marks . |
| 17 | The sparseness of fur did have one advantage — no mass of hairs to obscure the charming pose . |
| 18 | Arnold Kaech did have one advantage denied to William Arbuthnot ; his monument could be landed on the spot by helicopter . |
| 19 | Er we did have one person who was in her early twenties but er she gave it up . |
| 20 | Still waiting for a lot of the reports to come in , but we did have one winner on Guess the Scores this afternoon . |
| 21 | Oh yes , we did , we did have one baby , yes , we did , in the er in the home . |
| 22 | I did phone one company whose machine had a good write-up but the purchase price had increased by £50 and there was a five week delay . |
| 23 | The youth semi finals did produce one surprise with Friends of Allonby beating youth league champions St Albans 3–1 while Viking looked strong in their 2–0 defeat of Bere Forest . |
| 24 | Thus we can see how the social policies of Italian Fascism failed to meat its objective of creating a classless society enough they did change one nature of the state and politics . |
| 25 | It did manage one win , though , but that was in the back of Jim Clarke 's Lotus 43 . |
| 26 | And they said you did point one mile in point O O one hours |
| 27 | We did encounter one organisation , again in engineering , which appeared to invest quite heavily In the training of persons it was recruiting on a temporary basis . |
| 28 | He did require one condition to be satisfied , all the bottom row of steel stays , 56 in total , had to be removed for examination . |
| 29 | But I did write one thing at school , the school pantomime , which nobody wanted to be in anyway . |
| 30 | But Brian actually did interview one person , for forty-five minutes ? |