Example sentences of "did [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For on 17 November 1558 — in the same month as the Scottish parliament did grant the crown matrimonial — Mary Tudor died . |
| 2 | ‘ People did think the King acted rashly but there were other prophecies , not just pious speculation . |
| 3 | She was n't a fanatic , but she did think the slipper was used a bit too freely on the younger boys . |
| 4 | I did elicit the information that Fishbane was five years ahead of him and that briefly they were together in the school choir . ’ |
| 5 | Lieutenant Denholm did explain the dangers to you ? ’ |
| 6 | Milton Friedman 's widely reported remark that ‘ We are all Keynesians now ’ was an exaggeration , even for the time , but it did convey the Zeitgeist of the 1960s . |
| 7 | Although not representing any direct threat to the government these rebellions did hinder the country 's economic recovery . |
| 8 | The nursing home say they did consult the council … and have promised to carry out sensitive landscaping … along the gap . |
| 9 | Green was fulsome in his praise for Barker 's determined and generous efforts to reach an equitable settlement and it is possible that Green did acquaint the Chairman of the RAC with the unhappy position in Bedfordshire . |
| 10 | The intention of the project was to investigate how teachers across the primary age-range used collaborative tasks as an integral part of their normal classroom activity and what they did to enable the children to work effectively together . |
| 11 | He did locate the apple orchard from which Liebermann had composed a large picture , and he made a sketch of it . |
| 12 | Afterwards , however , Pond , himself a Baptist and used to Beecher 's Plymouth Church , described the congregation as ‘ a very devout crowd of worshippers who entered into the spirit of the occasion and did worship the Lord and Mr Spurgeon with tremendous intensity ’ . |
| 13 | Probably humans did build the Store just for humans . |
| 14 | Our results showed that this interpretation , suggested by a content-based representation , but at odds with the one licensed by linguistic criteria , did affect the interpretation of ellipses . |
| 15 | The Court of Appeal held that menaces did not exist unless ( a ) they would affect the mind of a reasonable person or ( b ) did affect the mind of the victim and the accused knew that his actions were likely to have such an effect . |
| 16 | This did affect the Croydon area indirectly , by the withdrawal of tram route 12 . |
| 17 | But in the final hour he did deliver the goods , taking impromptu questions from the audience . |
| 18 | More seriously , however , Priestley 's work on gases did influence the development of balloons . |
| 19 | De Grazia points out that there was a fundamental transformation in the way the power was exercised and that this did influence the state . |
| 20 | But the low level of unionization did influence the form of industrial struggle . |
| 21 | However , the Committee did emphasize the need for a much wider range of accommodation than had been provided before the war , and so they were drawn into the sharp debate about densities and preferences as between flats and houses — and this is where the link with the Ministry of Town and Country Planning proved so important . |
| 22 | It was through the work of the library committees that the first of the project 's stated objectives was most clearly achieved , and we have seen how the proposal documents embodied clearly defined objectives which did relate the development of the library to the curriculum experience of the children . |
| 23 | Cotton took an appointment as golf director at Royal Waterloo Golf Club , telling his friends that he was testing the theory that absence really did make the heart grow fonder . |
| 24 | That 's true , I did make the breakfast . |
| 25 | For the Germans say they DID make the offer . |
| 26 | However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems . |
| 27 | For example , we do not know exactly how God made the world , but that does n't stop us believing that he DID make the world . |
| 28 | Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort . |
| 29 | when you did make the point about not having information I was concerned about that |
| 30 | They did make the point that we 're better than most of their er |