Example sentences of "[pron] did take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is I did take it out once or twice , determined to do something with it , but other things , like earning enough to keep a roof over our heads and send the children to decent schools , always seemed to intervene . |
| 2 | Recently I did take up a form of gardening , indoor gardening . |
| 3 | When I was much younger I did take chances from time to time and can recall more than one close shave . |
| 4 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 5 | If I did take the twins away all summer then Masquerade would be taken to a boatyard in Florida , so I now signed the necessary customs forms and the insurance waiver and the dozen other pieces of paper that would be needed to keep the United States government and the delivery company happy . |
| 6 | I did take you for a couple staying there together , and normally I would have retreated smartly and come back here again , but for what had already happened . |
| 7 | I am positive the only reason I 'm still here is because I did take drugs . |
| 8 | Although it is not a mountain tent I did take it on a high camp with a family group . |
| 9 | But after that I did take up private nursing . |
| 10 | Look I 've just remembered , I did take a walk — just to get a breath of fresh air . ’ |
| 11 | But I I did take part in it when I was a a boy in school , and that 's a that 's a fair while ago , now right enough , but er er I used to attend the er Well a primary school , I went to the small Grimness school , in the north end of South Ronaldsay , which has now been closed for over twenty years . |
| 12 | He said of his winter sporting expedition : ‘ I felt I 'd reached a decent standard by the end of the week , although I did take a tumble or two . |
| 13 | Now that is the accepted way of doing it , and I can not see any reason why that can not be done , erm in Greater York , once the location for the new settlement is erm er is identified , erm so that 's my definition of erm integrated and balanced community , it 's a concept , you ca n't define , I do n't think , integrated and balanced separately , you need to bind them together er into into some erm er or all er erm concept , erm now the erm the question you did pose me , sir , which er I did take a note of , but I wonder if you 'd be kind enough to repeat it so I 've I 've a I 've a got it quite clear before I respond . |
| 14 | But he was pleased when I did take off at his command . |
| 15 | There is one thing , and I think I did take it with you , erm , Mr Chairman , I 'm with the erm , I 've forgotten what the question on , corporational liberties , the thing that is concentrating many of our minds quite some , but the er , would , would the Chief Fire Officer like to ? |
| 16 | I did take out one thing about the bible since it was going to somebody in the States in the bible belt and I did n't |
| 17 | I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court . |
| 18 | I did take a step back and look at myself . |
| 19 | Christmas cards go flying I did take a picture of all my birthday cards , |
| 20 | I only looked , I did take quickly a look at them but , you know I thought oh I ai n't got I did n't really have time to mess about for long you know . |
| 21 | Right , this is an extremely good slide , I did take this myself , erm of the actual dress of the eighteen forties , I 'll just sort of point out its components . |
| 22 | A hundred and thirty five , erm , all of which did take |
| 23 | Even those who did take legal action received little advantage from it . |
| 24 | Perhaps a more sensitive test would be to examine the writings of puritans who did take an interest in science in seventeenth-century England to see what connections they did make in their schemes for reform . |
| 25 | However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture . |
| 26 | Several prominent figures refused to take the test , including a former state prosecutor Mohammad Moussavi Khoeniha and a former chief justice Ayatollah Abdelkarim Moussavi Ardebili ; among those who did take it , but failed , were Ayatollah Karrubi and Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali ( the head of the Islamic revolutionary courts set up after the 1979 revolution ) . |
| 27 | Now , I understand then that you did take a walk down Boundary Drive on that night ? ’ |
| 28 | Well when you had your grab , you used to lower it on the deck of the , deck of the erm trawler and when you open your grab , that much , a lot of it hold up in the grab you see , you could n't get so of course when you did take your grab up , lot of it went over the side . |
| 29 | Yes , well he s he did take it up with me as a , er , I mean you did take it up |
| 30 | Mena 's everyday face is just stubborn , you could call it proud — she 's a countrywoman from a good province as they say — but Anna took to it , she did take to people — her infatuations Constanza says — she took to my father when he was a very young man and he was n't so good-looking either . |