Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made into the lower part of the boot is a special ‘ water shed ’ membrane which successfully helped keep my feet dry . |
| 2 | Of course the young girls , they sometimes started off very enthusiastic and perhaps did do quite a lot without realising the implications and effect of it but the older women often had trouble keeping up . |
| 3 | You might feel , you perhaps did feel , is it not astonishingly self-centred , is it not even offensively self-centred , this concern with his own greatness , his own importance , what I am writing now , what I shall achieve . |
| 4 | Arguing from silence is dangerous , but had he played a significant role in Cnut 's Scandinavian wars of c.1025-8 ( see below ) information about it might have been expected to survive , and so he perhaps did disappear from the scene soon after 1023 . |
| 5 | erm people who were in court , say , twenty/thirty/forty years ago perhaps did see scenes where the Clerk was over involved and appeared to be running things , but you do n't see that these days . |
| 6 | After considerable discussion Mr Jones accepted the possibility that Olwyn perhaps did need love and attention but that it was just as likely she needed it because she behaved badly rather than the other way round . |
| 7 | A film which apparently did touch the spirit was King Kong , though we do not know whether Jack found it quite as exciting as Warnie did : ‘ There were astounding representations of the various prehistoric monsters , ’ Warnie confided breathlessly to his diary . |
| 8 | So in order to impress her I made a speech and it apparently did impress her because I 'm married to her now . |
| 9 | A principal sea-side town had become a large and squalid town by the sea ; not only did fashion begin to desert it by the later 1820s , but medical opinion could no longer treat it with the blind enthusiasm of earlier decades . |
| 10 | They only did like erm a square foot every time . |
| 11 | Not only did profit move well . |
| 12 | I mean before they came to the centre I think people felt Save The Children only did work in countries abroad . |
| 13 | Obviously did do a thing . |
| 14 | leave me alone , he obviously did jump did n't he ? |
| 15 | There were several places kids obviously did get through ; Maxim widened one by yanking loose another plank and ducked in . |
| 16 | It was run by a man and his wife who obviously did know Schellenberg well . |
| 17 | This is not to say that the emergence of more popularly-orientated styles of activity expressed a displacement of sectarian religious feeling but antislavery none the less did become an important channel for religious feeling which looked to a broader moral enhancement of English society and in turn that had to involve the full-hearted commitment of a myriad of individuals and groups . |
| 18 | It rejected the idea that the associated companies which together did have a countrywide business were in any way relevant . |
| 19 | In the 80s , shares reached record heights and so did skirt lengths . |
| 20 | On the other hand , in 1966 when manufacturing employment turned down , so did total employment . |
| 21 | The House took the point further : not just did " inflict " require direct application of force , but so did assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault . |
| 22 | Between 1986 and 1989 the prices of the country 's two main exports , coffee and cocoa , halved , and so did export earnings from them , to $776 million from $1.5 billion . |
| 23 | Earth Report states that the introduction of peanuts as a cash crop in the 1950s and 1960s led farmers to become dependent on peanut harvests as their main source of income ; as prices declined by 22 per cent between 1967 and 1969 , so did soil fertility as less money was available for fertilisers . |
| 24 | So did have to take them |
| 25 | He was clearly so fearful of the answer to his father 's unasked question that he scarcely dared pose it himself , but then summoned up the courage . |
| 26 | Then suddenly , and sweetly , she began to realise that , since Travis was no more to her than a good friend , and she was still going to have her job at the end of all this , when it finally did end , it was going to be she who had the last laugh — and not N. Massingham Esquire . |
| 27 | When we finally did make it back to the ground , palpitating and soaked with sweat , there was no sign of Ranteallo , and much of the crowd had already dispersed on its way back to the Rante . |
| 28 | When he finally did stop working , it was the first time in a year and a half that everyone involved stopped and got a chance to take a break , and once everyone took a break , things began to change . |
| 29 | He saved one of the Signals Waafs from getting into trouble through not turning up for duty on time , simply by staying at his post until she finally did appear . |
| 30 | Some tyre levers and allan keys were missing but by driving slowly back I ( or rather we , as I 'd offered some fellow tourists a lift back to town ; what with delays getting started , and then this to-do , I bet they wished they 'd never bothered , it would have been quicker to walk ! — and when we finally did set off again , I accidentally left one of them behind , running along the road behind us waving and shouting ! ) — we , as I say , found most of the missing items . |