Example sentences of "[noun] really did " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some aspects of her job that Margaret Stanhope really did not like , and spending every other Sunday in bed with Reg Butler was one of them . |
| 2 | For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective . |
| 3 | I did not discard everything , for Vitamin A , B , C and little tablets of zinc and selenium made scientific sense , but poor , old Dr. Bach really did seem nonsense . |
| 4 | Marriage misinterpreted his hesitation and said querulously : ‘ Dot really did n't tell me a thing , nothing . |
| 5 | Many colonnades , staircases , doorways and corridors open on to the Central Courts and , if the bull dance really did take place there , they must have been protected in some way from the rampaging bulls . |
| 6 | Marius really did the prodigal son bit … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Pete really did go for her then . |
| 8 | Erm , was , or so his critics said , that er his theory just would not work and the kind of argument that they produced against him , and poor old Darwin really did n't have an answer to this , and i it seemed a very very severe problem at the time was look , supposing that er I 'm a mutant you might think . |
| 9 | It was clearly a spot height — in fact there was a small stone to mark it , but it was almost hidden in rough grass and gorse , and Maggie really did n't want to know how far they had climbed . |
| 10 | Oh we had , we had a good laugh really did , it was a good holiday |
| 11 | Heaven help her if the other girl really did think she was involved with Dr Russell ! |
| 12 | A girl really did break her neck on those stairs . ’ |
| 13 | The girl really did seem perfect , and she also has some very good references , ’ Laura assured him . |
| 14 | By the way the sports editor really did ‘ hold the back page ’ for me yesterday . |
| 15 | Workers really did n't need Marx to figure out the consequences of this inequality in the distribution of power . |
| 16 | This time Alyssia really did pull away , and he laughed under his breath . |
| 17 | Not because I actually felt at home with all the ‘ weirdos ’ in there but because the shop really did look like my nan 's house . |
| 18 | Since Plato ( dreamed that he ) saw Socrates most days , and this was among the most vivid and consistent of all his experiences ( dreams ? ) , and since Socrates said things which he , Plato , had not thought of before and which sometimes surprised him , Plato found it most consistent and convenient to ’ believe ’ that Socrates really did exist . |
| 19 | ‘ That is , of course , if you were telling the truth and Silvia really did say something about going to Alghero . ’ |
| 20 | The free wine really did put everyone in the right mood for the rest of the evening when you could sit back and be entertained or dance to the disco music outside on the terrace . |
| 21 | Belinda watched her , smiling at first because Faye really did seem pleased about the present , then with increasing anxiety . |
| 22 | Your kindness and sincerity really did restore my faith in human nature . |
| 23 | The results of the first two years really did not warrant such astronomical sums and Dennis knew that the following year he would have to pay Prost a sum equal to his evident worth . |
| 24 | The sharpest clash occurred in the village of Bezdna in the eastern province of Kazan " , where a certain Anton Petrov began claiming that the statutes really did grant wholesale freedom . |
| 25 | It spent er very little and the federal government 's er expenditures really did n't amount to , to very much at all . |
| 26 | None of these special Cabinet committees really did anything : it did n't matter a damn that people like Wedgie [ Mr Benn ] and me were not on SEP [ Steering Committee on Economic Policy ] or OPD [ Oversea Policy and Defence ] . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ It 's been great , the ball really did turn and I really had to concentrate on every ball . ’ |
| 28 | But now we understand that these things really did n't amount to much . |
| 29 | Things really did happen while I was in the tree . |
| 30 | So far they 've spent twenty four hours at the house … and in the best tradition of ghost stories , things really DID go bump in the night . |