Example sentences of "did [verb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the law finally did catch up with Capone in 1931 , it was for tax evasion , and he was sentenced to 11 years in prison . |
| 2 | Bernice could n't see what he thought he would be able to do even if they did catch up with the shapechangers . |
| 3 | She was breathless when she did catch up with him outside on the front doorstep . |
| 4 | And Lori 's erratic course as good as told her she had no fear of the outcome if Paige did catch up with her . |
| 5 | Those of us who did carry on with the flight , masochistically addicted to the hellish aimlessness of it , were obliged to leave at New Delhi , and spend a day selling brightly coloured scarves and small gold elephants on a souvenir stall . |
| 6 | Thirdly , if war did break out with Tito , what would be the response of Tito 's Communist ally , the Soviet Union , with its immensely powerful forces stationed nearby ? |
| 7 | That helped meet police costs that rose by 16 per cent to a record level of £9.28m , although the Trust did weigh in with a £2.24m contribution . |
| 8 | We did meet up with the Oxford contingent at the Leathern Bottle at Lewknor , just off , junction 6 on M40 , worth a visit if you 're in that area . |
| 9 | The leg-spinner , Ian Salisbury , proved the most expensive , conceding 142 runs from just 29 overs , though he did end up with two wickets including that of Tendulkar . |
| 10 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 11 | Yeah but he did go out with a girl there for a while did n't he ? |
| 12 | She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face . |
| 13 | Meanwhile her mother did get on with the job . |
| 14 | Jenny Holland , who shared a flat at university with Sarah , told the hearing she was quiet but did get on with her fellow students . |
| 15 | You did get off with him ? |
| 16 | I do n't like doing movies anymore but I really enjoyed this , ’ and he did come up with a very eloquent retraction , which no one printed . ’ |
| 17 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | We could n't get an address out of him , and when he did come up with one it was wrong , a non-existent road . |
| 19 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 20 | They were n't concerned with that , although they did come up with some electro um electro-static field , or electro magnatic magnetic fields in the brain or something . |
| 21 | But they , they did come up with the work on the results , and then they , they did get time to plan it . |
| 22 | Erm one , one of the statements that you did come out with when you , when you were saying about erm why you were there , you said about to make sure that your policy is performing how you wish it to which is as good a one as I did when I said you 're obviously satisfied with , with your Friends Provident contract cos we 're brilliant erm Martin asked the question about why has the , why has the bonus gone down and , and you overcame that objection er which was good and he , he was , he was satisfied with that . |