Example sentences of "did [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This claim gave rise to much discussion in the local and national Press , and the Portuguese Government did eventually settle the claim in full in 1853 . |
| 2 | The player did eventually join the Peacocks , but under unusual and unforeseen circumstances . |
| 3 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 4 | ‘ It did rather trash the town . |
| 5 | But unless I talked out the issue with others , or wrote it up in my diary , it may be far from clear even to myself whether or not I did verbally formulate the alternatives . |
| 6 | Russell J. then said that ‘ Mrs. Jones did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document ’ but repeated that ‘ the absence of independent advice is fatal to the claim . ’ |
| 7 | In the latter case this was notwithstanding a finding that the wife ‘ did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document . ’ |
| 8 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 9 | Thomson invites Ormanroyd to move forward and he drives it on and as he did so presume the referee has whistled for a free kick for the challenge by Gemmell , yes he has . |
| 10 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 11 | Finally , in the 1950s and 60s , new systems of rural credit were established in the district of Ludhiana which did appreciably alter the balance of power in Manupur . |
| 12 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 13 | Charity did guiltily drop the glasses . |
| 14 | Could I just clarify one other point , erm I did incorrectly advise the panel on the ten miles . |
| 15 | Trilateralism was certainly an effective antidote to isolationism , even if it did not extinguish the assertiveness shown by the Lord Chancellor 's Department in securing a faster growth in the rate of expenditure on the courts and legal aid than did the Home Office on the police and prisons . |
| 16 | This was a novel requirement and appeared inconsistent with the decision of the Lords in Newbury , where the defendants did not aim the stone , which killed the victim , at him . |
| 17 | The first rehearsals of an opéra would often be chaos if his talents , or activity , did not clarify the performance . |
| 18 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 19 | The defendants paid in cash the balance of £250 but did not deliver the lorries . |
| 20 | Her work entailed taking orders and payments for hampers , but when she was asked to supply hampers to one customer she kept the money and did not deliver the hampers . |
| 21 | Sandweg church was different from other churches on the island in that its frescos did not bear the imprint of the celebrated Elmelunde master but of some unknown artist who , it seemed , had neither painted nor supervised the painting of any other works of public art . |
| 22 | It has to be said , however , that despite passionate support from 105,000 fans in the Nou Camp , their performance did not bear the hallmark of European champions . |
| 23 | Dacourt threw him an angry glance but , slightly mollified by Benjamin 's assertion that Vulcan did not bear the guilt for Waldegrave 's death , nodded and stumped off . |
| 24 | While the King found it convenient to have a source of income that Parliament could not touch or question , people in England did not reckon the advantages of colonies in terms of the grants of revenue that they could make . |
| 25 | While he did not glamorize the Munich settlement , he insisted that ‘ the Prime Minister was right to choose the catastrophe of yielding to improper procedure rather than to choose the terrible catastrophe of war . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Tantum criticised a suggestion made by the Law Commission this year that hacking in its simple form should be an offence which did not give the police powers to arrest suspects or search their premises . |
| 27 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 28 | The Boston text relates more exclusively to the movement itself and includes , along with historical material , a brief statement by Mark Francis which is intended to justify and explain the motives behind the exhibition ( the Situationists did not give the event their blessings and none of the past members participated in its planning ) . |
| 29 | Frau Nordern did not give the lorries a second glance but dived down a side-street into a rather agreeable square . |
| 30 | And although Bryan Forbes made a stab at backing British filmmakers as head or production for EMI , the company that had taken over ABPC in 1969 , announcing 14 projects within months of taking over his new post , the line-up did not give the impression that he was in touch with any new sources of cinematic excitement . |