Example sentences of "did [vb infin] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then the Lion Rampant did appear over the rising ground , perhaps three hundred yards behind those first riders , but it rose above a fairly compact party , and this was backed by a still larger body of men . |
| 4 | In winter , when the level in the canal would tend to be some three inches higher , then some water did splash over the sides of the tanks , but never at any time was the water emptied from the tanks to enable hauling to proceed.9 ; On this basis alone the lift must be judged to have been a technical success . |
| 5 | Of that No 4 Group party which set out to bomb Italy the night they declared war on England , I know that four — and only four Whitleys — did get over the Alps . |