Example sentences of "did [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although the Komsomol in 1922 only enveloped 0.8 per cent of ill peasant youth , there did exist a cell in the Nikol'skaia volost' , and seven of its twelve members were peasants . |
| 32 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 33 | He did buy a couple of new ones in China . |
| 34 | The scenery was grim , the food was unappetising , fashion was all but non-existent ( he did buy a Burberry raincoat — his ‘ famous blue raincoat ’ — which he adorned till someone relieved him of it in New York 20 years later ) , the arts were struggling , almost moribund , despite the explosive qualities of Kingsley Amis , John Osborne , Colin Wilson , and Alan Sillitoe ; and the weather was atrocious . |
| 35 | While Ralston concedes that negotiations did include a discussion of Lincoln 's collaboration in the project including the participation of Lincoln University Press no Lincoln role is mentioned in the final contract . |
| 36 | Northampton did win a scrum against the head on their line but they could not escape and a ferocious tackle by Pepper knocked Foale backwards as he tried to drive from a scrum . |
| 37 | Another Gothic design did win a prize , although it failed to satisfy The Saturday Review that it was a bona fide Gothic scheme . |
| 38 | This enthusiasm , inspired by Scottish sections , was short lived , and nothing came of the move , but it did signal a phase of agitation over representation that was to culminate in formal acceptance of the principle at the 1917 Congress . |
| 39 | Eventually , I rang the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and said I 'd got this botfly and really did need a bit of surgery , and they said ‘ Come along today . ’ |
| 40 | The NHS did need a kick up the backside , and a lot of us were ( and still are ) far more prepared than you realise to promote any scheme that looks halfway decent . |
| 41 | She did need a shower to wash away the tension from a day that had been too full of emotion . |
| 42 | This girl did need a woman around her and her brother 's face was a fascinating mixture of satisfaction and irritation . |
| 43 | ‘ The only person who did catch a glimmer of the truth was poor Dame Frances . |
| 44 | It was 30th December , I did catch a bus before I got to Charing Cross Station , it was good old No. 30 , for Fulham . |
| 45 | But it 's hard to imagine what she did to deserve a fate like this . ’ |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 48 | Obviously did do a thing . |
| 49 | When the school did do a production I played Celia . |
| 50 | and what I did was , there was a gap here , and I drove into the gap nose first , and I did do a hell of a lot of steering to get myself out |
| 51 | Judith Oakley is er as you know , is the was an anthropologist who , who did do a study of gypsies . |
| 52 | I mean if somebody did grow a tree I mean , it must be harder in that kind of area but but wi with the right will for people to plant a tree and grow it it 's just as easy |
| 53 | did send a message by telephone which was grossly offensive , or |
| 54 | ‘ did send a message by telephone which was grossly offensive , or ’ Means the message must have gone by a public telecommunication service and must be very offensive . |
| 55 | ‘ did send a message by telephone which was grossly offensive or ’ As with the last point the telephone causes problems . |
| 56 | While England sent no revivalist as famous as Moody she did send a number of famous ministers and the works of her most famous preachers were avidly bought and consumed in America . |
| 57 | ‘ I did send a telegram to the caretaker to tell him to be here to let me in . |
| 58 | Part A goes ninety one to ninety six , part B ninety six to two thousand and six , sites adjacent to the urban area in the Greater York study er which were acceptable for development because corporately the districts and the county did not think that those sites discharged a greenbelt function as the greenbelt local plan was progressed those sites were excluded from the greenbelt erm and yes , we did identify a number of sites which did not conflict with greenbelt objectives erm on the urban edge . |
| 59 | This did present a problem , as of the three services which the L.C.C . |
| 60 | The approach of validation day did present a problem of a different kind . |