Example sentences of "did [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think if you did bring back hanging it 'd cut out some of these flaming crimes . |
| 2 | Peyton did move back into some degree of opposition ( now called Whig ) contact , and he was involved on the peripheries of the 1682–3 Rye House plot . |
| 3 | ‘ But Steen did phone back ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I did go back recently on a concert tour . |
| 5 | We nearly did go back , when despite picking what looked like the most innocuous section of the next cloud blocking the route , the VSI cranked round briefly to over 1,000 fpm ascent . |
| 6 | And we never did go back on the payroll after that . |
| 7 | After all , he did go back to that church , presumably to ask his God for further and better instructions . ’ |
| 8 | He did go back to London ; he did defy the might of Zanuck , but the canny Alex Korda in London stitched up the contract later which , yes , was to give him a million dollars , but also tie him to some terrible films . |
| 9 | But Carol Wilson never did go back to Virgin . |
| 10 | I think everyone 's got their own ways of dealing with them , you know certainly some people ignore them , you know I prefer to ignore them rather than taunt them , er possibly because I was n't really friendly with any of them that did go back , I think people who were close friends have found it very awkward and I know even now they 're probably looking daggers at each other you know , that sort of thing . |
| 11 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 12 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 13 | Those that did write back stated that they were very happy with their present designs . |
| 14 | ‘ When I did get back she had a very strange and dangerous problem which she dumped in my lap , assured me I was the only man she could trust to handle it . |
| 15 | But just once — it was to be the last time — we did get back . |
| 16 | I do n't live round here ’ , and my mind sort of blacked out and I ca n't remember getting home , though I did get back , changed my clothes and had a bath . |
| 17 | Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act . |
| 18 | Leeds battled fiercely with Whelan playing well up front , holding the ball and putting decent balls in the box a lot ( he came on for Rocky at half time ) but when we did get back in it it was Deano who was in the box and looking like scoring who got hauled down and the ref points to the spot . |
| 19 | Ian Wright extended that lead on eighty one minutes , but Derby did get back into things with an effort from Gary Micklewhite . |
| 20 | Pre-war values never did come back ; rent restriction never did cease to be considered necessary , even after the building of three or four million new houses ; subsidies never were discontinued . |
| 21 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 22 | But when she did come back , with her own children , the railway line had been closed . |
| 23 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 24 | I know he did come back because of the new tape on the Ansaphone . ’ |
| 25 | Claudia walked slowly back to the hotel ; she could leave Alnwick now before Roman came back , if he did come back . |
| 26 | ‘ He never did come back to us , ’ said the young man positively . |
| 27 | ‘ He did come back once . |
| 28 | If he did come back to life , he was in real problems with the bank . |
| 29 | If Nevil did come back , even if he was giving away religious tracts , she 'd castrate him before the doorbell had stopped ringing . |
| 30 | Okay I that would have been okay in that particular case but you did come back to it as benefit , you say we have n't seen you for such a long time that was a not just look at your policies but to put a , a face to the name so I can become your point of reference |