Example sentences of "people did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I received a few letters from strangers which made me realize that people did care . |
| 2 | ‘ Just a few people did make that mistake . |
| 3 | Well several people did bring in board games but Mr Barnes was ‘ too busy ’ to organise us , so we just joined in with whatever we fancied . |
| 4 | People did move between these industries : engineering workers went to sea , as did in the course of a lifetime , some miners ; seamen came ashore and worked as scaffolders and riggers in the yards . |
| 5 | But , you know , the situation is difficult in that if the people did move in there 's not a lot you can do about it because it would mean that you would have to surrender the lease , which means you 've let the guarantors off the hook for paying the then and you 're left without a tenant whatsoever . |
| 6 | People did laugh at funerals . |
| 7 | People did forget dreams . |
| 8 | And and certainly when when that was broken , then then people did start to come out publicly and complain . |
| 9 | ‘ People did think the King acted rashly but there were other prophecies , not just pious speculation . |
| 10 | Do I I mean I do n't know whether we 'll keep the individuals on the next one , cos people did talk about group work . |
| 11 | Perhaps the young black man was not mad ; people did talk to themselves . |
| 12 | THAT SORT of conversion the road to Damnedmascus sounds like a cliché today , but people did go through it then . |
| 13 | It was amazing how people did rally round at times like this . |
| 14 | And people did rally round . |
| 15 | The weather prevented many members from attending , but forty-five people did manage to make their way through the fog . |
| 16 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 17 | Internally , people did distinguish personal property . |
| 18 | His appeal must have met with some response because although some hundreds of people did leave for Fort-de-France , many hundreds more sought refuge in St Pierre itself , flocking in from the surrounding countryside , so that on the morning of 8 May , as many as 30,000 people were probably crowding the town . |
| 19 | What was really remarkable was that although people did change their ground as a result of English pressure , Henry VIII and Somerset never actually dispelled all their support in Scotland . |
| 20 | Some people did feel guilty about having called the police and having stopped the upsurge . |
| 21 | However , lots of people did give very generously , and we managed to raise several thousand pounds for research and education on arthritis . |
| 22 | However , early people did study those heavenly cycles which were easily discernible within their lifespan . |
| 23 | But some people did say that high interest rates were a reason for not using credit cards , personal loans from finance companies , HP or second mortgages for home improvements . |
| 24 | And I think se several people did say that . |
| 25 | People did notice and comment , of course , which embarrassed me . |
| 26 | But some people did worry , notably those who argued that Britain , having ruled Hong Kong as a benign dictatorship for more than 140 years , should institute a fully democratic government before 1997 . |
| 27 | There was a positive message in there about moderation and I think people did get it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I just thought people did get books published , ’ she said lamely . |
| 29 | Not many people did know . |
| 30 | Historical evidence suggests that in the past people did share accommodation with their kin , at least on a temporary basis , and they did so essentially for instrumental reasons resulting from social and economic pressures ( Anderson , 1971 ; 1980 ; Davidoff , 1979 ; Roberts , 1984 ) . |