Example sentences of "did [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I did answer that question . |
2 | Plants were the only source of help for health improvement for hundreds of years , and doctors were almost entirely reliant on them though some , notably Hippocrates , did stress that hygiene and diet were of major importance . |
3 | ‘ Just a few people did make that mistake . |
4 | And I did enjoy that volley from just outside the area he scored for Wednesday in the League Cup a few seasons back … now who was that against ? |
5 | Perhaps she did buy that picture because it is concerned with loneliness , with " the contemplation of time passing without meaning " , " 1 and moved then , momentarily , hesitantly , towards all the other lost travellers . |
6 | by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us |
7 | I told Malpass he could find me at Stuart Street and , for a couple of streets , I did head that way . |
8 | And yet — I am too hasty , too defensive — Yes , he did identify that mirage , or illusions , delusions very close in configuration to it . |
9 | It 's true that I did feel that way at the time . |
10 | Now that 's fair enough because we 've actually bunged more in in terms of testing , we 're covered in testing , and we 've got temps who are less productive , so to an extent we , we , we , we ou our budget did expect that bump . |
11 | We did we did evaluate that option er as part of the er early assessments , I do n't have the results today . |
12 | ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ? |
13 | Now ‘ I 've Got My Mojo Working ’ does n't go down with everyone , but at that time there were a few people around who did like that kind of stuff , and we were hopefully appealing to them . ’ |
14 | Never did like that group … |
15 | But Huxley did envisage that selection acted on genes that had more than one effect on the form ( morphology ) of an animal , so that although the large body size would be adaptive , the extra large antlers were simply a consequence of prolonged growth . |
16 | She probably did remember that incident on the beach . |
17 | ‘ Well , at the time it did look that way . ’ |
18 | He did wish that custom and her total generosity had not made everything so easy as to be negligible . |
19 | and even if you think no I would n't really spend the money to make myself more beautiful , you think , oh maybe , if I really , if I did have that money would I do it ? |
20 | According to Aubrey , Madeleine was still unattached , even if she did have that army officer dancing attendance on her . |
21 | She did have that allergy in her eyes . |
22 | Yeah , we did have that quote , but there were other things on it . |
23 | Although I did hear that accident was n't entirely kosher . ’ |
24 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
25 | Of course , this a justified objection ; and I am ready to concede that in most historical examples one might like to point out things probably did happen that way round . |
26 | right , she did take that book with her , did n't she ? |
27 | However , on March 31 , Tao Siju , China 's Public Security Minister , while denying the existence of a " blacklist " , did admit that information on Hong Kong residents was collected by agents from his ministry and by the New China News Agency , China 's de facto embassy in Hong Kong . |
28 | And indeed the reflections on art by modernists such as Flaubert , Klee , and Auguste Macke did hold that literature and painting should be like music in a quest for the attainment of formal qualities and in a departure from realist notions of representation . |
29 | I did add that rider , just . |
30 | She 'd rather be seen as hopelessly naïve , and she voiced her feelings , suddenly not caring if she did seem that way . |