Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But fortunately there would be no embarrassment : when Megan did eventually mention Hugh Templar , it was in passing , and with respect , along with John Wyndham and Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula le Guin . |
| 2 | He did eventually change things , but by then it was too late . |
| 3 | It indicates that a real change did eventually take place after all , in so far as freedom of information and the inappropriateness of direct consultation without public mediation eventually became accepted as something which , at worst , had to be risked and something which , at best , formed an essential task of the construction of a Christian conscience in a Christian society . |
| 4 | Sighvat 's poem is known to be incomplete , but surviving verses do not mention the battle , and Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa says that Cnut opposed or threw back ( hnekDir ) the Swedes there , and describes him as their withstander ( prengvir ) , neither of which is resonant of overwhelming victory , Indeed , if Holy River was known only from the Chronicle entry one would think it a defeat , but Ottar is unlikely to have included a famous reverse in a list of Cnut 's achievements , and the royal title used in the 1027 Letter ( see below ) suggests that he did eventually claim suzerainty over some Swedes . |
| 5 | It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum . |
| 6 | Although the police did successfully charge fascists for this crime after 1936 the punishment was often derisory , and police interpretation of the law was often inconsistent . |
| 7 | It was these wars , unsurprisingly , which did most to give life to the ideal of unity . |
| 8 | Diego Maradona did most to restore Napoli to the top , creating headed goals ( 18 and 45 min ) for Andrea Carnevale and scoring a virtuoso third ( 84 ) . |
| 9 | Cherishing port as a special occasion drink was certainly flattering , but it did rather inhibit sales . |
| 10 | But in full moonlight on a deserted promenade you did rather attract attention . |
| 11 | ‘ did especially appoint John de Metingham ( then Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas ) and the rest of his fellow justices … that they , according to their discretions , should provide and ordain , from every county , certain attorneys and lawyers , of the best and most apt for their learning and skill , who might do service to his court and people ; and that those so chosen only and no other , should follow his court and transact the affairs therein ; the said King and his council then deeming the number of seven score to be sufficient for that employment ; but it was left to the discretion of the said justices , to add to that number , or diminish , as they should see fit : ’ |
| 12 | He did apparently display signs of hypochondria , however — Herbert Read remembered how he was " addicted to pills and potions " and , according to another friend , he kept a variety of pills in his lower waistcoat pocket — but hypochondria , if such it was , was only one aspect of a larger nervous disposition . |
| 13 | Whoever was on duty would move gently any part of the affected limb , trying as they did so to persuade Jimbo that now the pain was gone he might — I did not dare to say ‘ would ’ — be free soon to walk normally . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know how else to shake you out of your melancholy — and I did so want Hilary back . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I did so want Isabel to come , too . |
| 16 | The fact that they did so makes Mary 's minority fall so clearly into two distinct parts . |
| 17 | At first I did so to console Maman . |
| 18 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |
| 19 | However , RENFE , like BR , did greatly reduce staff from the 1960s , largely as a result of technological modernization ( see ch. 5 ) . |
| 20 | Fowler and Andy Lloyd made a good start , Gower chipped in well , and the rest of the batsmen did enough to see England home by three wickets . |
| 21 | When they did enough to earn wages , they were allowed to keep or spend half , the other half being saved for them on their release . |
| 22 | The score was 288 when Smith departed for 57 , and if the last wickets did not pile on the pressure they did enough to give England a lead of exactly 200 . |
| 23 | Halifax was a snob ; was not a true democrat ; did ludicrously misunderstand Hitler ; and dithered when decisiveness was needed most . |
| 24 | Important shifts did nevertheless take place in ways which profoundly reshaped the organisation of sexuality . |
| 25 | If ACET did somehow reclaim tax on the covenant then you would be liable to pay income tax to the Inland Revenue on the amount of your covenant payment . |
| 26 | If ACET did somehow reclaim tax on the payment then you would be liable to pay income tax to the Inland Revenue on the amount of your Gift Aid payment . |
| 27 | It was Aunt Bessie 's death , coupled with another event , which did finally bring Mother and Father together permanently . |
| 28 | But he did finally find producers and then finally Stephen Spielberg became involved in the project two years ago . |
| 29 | Rampant stags looked odd balanced on twigs among foliage , and so did exquisitely made seabirds , puffins and razorbills . |
| 30 | Unlike Glenn Gould — in many matters one of Karajan 's great soul-mates — Karajan did not abandon the concert-giving habit ; but , like Gould , he did unashamedly embrace recording technology to the full , the first conductor to do so in the wake of Stokowski , that would-be musico-technological pioneer who had the misfortune to be born thirty years too soon . |