Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All three did badly compared to Japan and performed roughly on a level with the United States . |
| 2 | When my parents did eventually reply , their letter was full of the most ordinary details of life in England and seemed far removed from my experiences in the Legion . |
| 3 | A few further discs did eventually appear , the Ecodisc and the Volcanos disc among them , but they were not enough to revitalise the fortunes of the Domesday initiative . |
| 4 | The family had great hopes , after the war , that he would suddenly reappear ( some soldiers did eventually return , years later ) , and kept all his hairdressing equipment clean and unused and all his clothes under dust sheets well into the 1970s . |
| 5 | Of those who did eventually end up in court , the acquittal rate by March 1985 was 24 per cent ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 6 | The New Democracy conservatives , though they were alarmingly slow to tackle the budget deficit when they got back to power , did eventually do something stern , and are still resisting the temptation to relax again . |
| 7 | He , he did it once or twice , had to give up when he got to the mouth of the River Orwell because he mistimed the currents but he did , he did eventually do it from Stoke Bathing Place to Felixstowe . |
| 8 | The debate over the Aggravating Vehicle-Taking Bill is different , not only because the Bill presumes a defendant responsible for occurrences if he can not disprove mere presence , but also because of the reasons which the Minister of State did eventually offer for this legislative formulation . |
| 9 | The CEGB did eventually carry out its test drilling on the farm at Luxulyan . |
| 10 | The monastic reform movement did not reach north-west Mercia either , yet this area had not been much influenced by Scandinavian settlement , and it did eventually extend into East Anglia , which had to some degree been so affected . |
| 11 | The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again . |
| 12 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 13 | This claim gave rise to much discussion in the local and national Press , and the Portuguese Government did eventually settle the claim in full in 1853 . |
| 14 | In at least one such area where it did eventually intrude , the original ‘ rotten apple ’ is believed to have been a government agent . |
| 15 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 16 | Inflation did eventually accelerate , and tight-money measures have barely begun to halt it . |
| 17 | He did eventually speak to Klein , who after some persuasion accepted his apologies , and then went on to tell him there was to be a party at Taylor and Clem 's house the following day , and he was sure Gentle would be welcome if he had no other plans . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He did eventually change things , but by then it was too late . |
| 20 | They did eventually go out of the house but he was about done and then he comes in five to seven . |
| 21 | She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside . |
| 22 | Which er I did eventually get on to and was a convenor for quite a number of years . |
| 23 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 24 | Now , even in it took us some , some time to get the situation under control but we did eventually get it under control but , as I say , not without a lot of misgivings and very very strong complaints from the public at large . |
| 25 | She did eventually die of a heart attack but it was nothing to do with Luke . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When I did eventually look in the mirror my hair was in patches , like little bits of baby hair . |
| 28 | Filmer did eventually come down , but with Daffodil . |
| 29 | Mr Templeton of the STA bluntly stated that " either the men or the women must cease to exist as comps " , 76 while Mrs Pankhurst , speaking in North Berwick , remarked that " the women were between the devil and the deep sea " .77 But that unity did eventually come about . |
| 30 | However , it did eventually become well known , and for 20 years organic mercurials were the most potent diuretics in clinical use . |