Example sentences of "did [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such prodigies were invariably pupils of the three most prominent schools of the area — Queen 's , Dale and Selborne — whose monumental inter-school rivalries were temporarily suspended when their products did service for the province . |
| 2 | Er , we did sample of the regional wines , last night erm . |
| 3 | Arguing from silence is dangerous , but had he played a significant role in Cnut 's Scandinavian wars of c.1025-8 ( see below ) information about it might have been expected to survive , and so he perhaps did disappear from the scene soon after 1023 . |
| 4 | So here ended my first tour and I could not claim that I ever actually had a clear view of any German target , save that which we did locate with the aid of Jimmy Marks ' experiment northeast of Rotterdam in mid-June 1940 . |
| 5 | He did research on the detection of foetal abnormalities at St Bartholomew 's , then moved to the Royal Free Hospital and began his crusade to offer women a more holistic approach to giving birth . |
| 6 | Of the scientists Margaret Sharman did research in the Department of Zoology at Oxford , Monica Shorten worked on rat control in the Bureau of Animal Population and Jean Stanier worked on a nutritional survey at the National Institute for Research in Dairying at Reading . |
| 7 | You did research in the States . |
| 8 | I did knock at the door , then , when there was no response , took a couple of steps through into a passage floored with stone slabs and containing nothing but some buckets of coal and a rack of ancient clothes , gardening clobber by the look of it . |
| 9 | However one senior member of staff , who preferred not to be named , said great bitterness did remain over the regional health authority 's veto on a merger with MEHT . |
| 10 | He had not been well early in the previous year , and decided to resign as Chairman , though he did remain on the Board for five more years as the Goldsmiths ' nominee . |
| 11 | In Northern Nigeria power did remain in the hands of the Residents , because they possessed historical claims to legitimacy as the standard-bearers of Indirect Rule — a point always emphasized by Palmer in his dealings with junior officers — and because they were linked with the top men in a congeries of feudal autocracies . |
| 12 | Indeed he did broadcast on the BBC before the war with a man called Harry Hopeful who ran a very popular show , rather on the same lines as Wilfrid Pickles and his Have a Go programme . |
| 13 | For centuries , as we have just seen , commentators argued that grammatical gender really did relate to the immutable realities of sex difference . |
| 14 | But I did make for the baize door a little more quickly than on my way in , and in the semi-darkness stumbled over one of the wellingtons , kicking it half-way across the floor . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , differences did exist between the outside and inside view . |
| 16 | The community planner was also aware that conflict probably did exist behind the prominence of what she perceived to be middle class agitation , but did not consider it part of her brief actively to encourage alliances that were not already formed . |
| 17 | Vercingetorix , Boudicca and a few Druids are allowed to remind the schoolboys of the European community that the Celts did exist in the age of the Romans . |
| 18 | There is , in fact , no proof that Christopher Columbus did stay in the house , only tradition . |
| 19 | Furthermore , it remains something of a puzzle that , when this movement did flourish during the 1920s and 1930s , Pound went out of his way to distance himself from it . |
| 20 | Yet she did compromise over the budget at Fontainebleau in 1984 , signed the Single European Act in 1986 , and accepted the Delors proposals for budgeting and agriculture reform in 1988 . |
| 21 | Ancient games did survive amongst the young and continued to be enjoyed into the middle of this century , but their songs and rhymes , and the old chasing , throwing , and racing games were increasingly regarded as puerile . |
| 22 | Many tried simply to deny all memories of the Third Reich or else to question the notion of collective guilt ; others were concerned that the old authoritarian values did survive beneath the surface , that civil servants remained in office despite serving the Nazis and that the basis for a genuine new democracy was not therefore laid after the war . |
| 23 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |
| 24 | A solicitor says that , technically , he DID act outside the law , but police say he did the right thing . |
| 25 | But each could and did act for the other when necessary ; and English diplomats abroad frequently corresponded with both . |
| 26 | However , a great sambhur stag did gallop past the machan . |
| 27 | On the other hand it would be so much simpler for explanatory purposes if animals did behave like the rational egoists of classical economics . |
| 28 | This emerges particularly in the verse paragraph in lines 77 – 89 of the Introduction , in which the Man of Law is made to note certain tales which Chaucer has not versified — Canace and Machaire , and Appollonius of Tyre — which Gower did include amongst the tales of his Confessio Amantis . |
| 29 | Stamp duties , which did fall on the luxury consumption of the better-off , made up only 13 per cent of indirect taxation in 1800 and less than half as much of total revenue . |
| 30 | When the case first came before the Court of Appeal , the court , finding no assistance in the text of the Convention itself , held in effect that the proceedings had to be regarded as in a ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ both under the law of the requesting country , which must necessarily be the starting-point , and that of England , the courts of which had to be satisfied that the request did fall within the terms of the Act . |