Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became a pariah although he did have an avid following amongst some of the more radical left-wing students who regarded him as something of a guru . ’ |
| 2 | However inadequate his predictions proved in the twentieth century , Marx 's appeal remains incomprehensible unless it is recognized that he did have an unsurpassed grasp of nineteenth-century capitalism . |
| 3 | He does remember Hollar from ten years ago and that he did get a good degree ( p. 52 ) , and his enthusiasm for the fact is indicated by the emphatic nature of his approbation — " Of course you did . |
| 4 | We 're sure Alan Sugar will be pleased to know he still has one fan left , and we have to admit that he did play a great part in bringing PCs to the masses . |
| 5 | and he does have a better understanding of that person 's role , even though |
| 6 | And he did become a chief inspector in eight years . |
| 7 | Oh , André was always a hit with the girls , and he did have a certain effeminate appeal and a wonderful way with words , but he lacked Piers 's vitality , the vibrant sexuality that seemed to smoulder away inside him . |
| 8 | This worked as a part of the discourse he was involved in ( the interview ) even if he did use a grammatical construction which might well have got a red line through it if he had written it as part of a school essay . |
| 9 | Even if he did have a provincial practice ( as his likely African origin may suggest ) , he also held office in Rome , probably had connections with Gaul , and is attested in the consilium of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 10 | But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight . |
| 11 | Perhaps it 's for the best if he did take an early retirement . ’ |
| 12 | Thirdly he should be loved devoutly ( 113.171f. ) and sweetly and that is when the soul feels overcome with joy , burning in the heat of the Holy Ghost — a Noah 's ark of security in the love of God that nothing can destroy : On the question of how the lover can recognise whether he is loving , Rolle warns that apart from the overwhelming assurance which accompanies the gift of the experience of singular love , man can not live by certainty , but faith , since that is the nature of the game ; but he does suggest a do-it-yourself questionnaire which is really designed to reveal to the user where his heart is fixed . |
| 13 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 14 | Gregory of Tours seems not to have known about the Trojan origin of the Franks , but he did know an undeveloped version of their migration legend . |
| 15 | Earlier , in 1278 , when Roger permitted the appropriation by Stafford priory of the church of Stowe by Chartley , he made no stipulation about the creation of a vicarage , but he did obtain a ten-mark annual pension for the dean and chapter of Lichfield 's common fund . |
| 16 | Bateman was unable to put his name on the League scorers ' list in spite of 32 appearances but he did get an important goal for Palace that season . |
| 17 | He did not feel the presence of the dead poet in the room , but he did have a vague excited sense that any of these containers — the desk , the trunks , the hat-boxes , might contain some treasure like the faded letters in his own breast-pocket . |
| 18 | Unlike Guillaume , Zborowski was unbusinesslike , and a poor book-keeper , but he did have a wonderful faith in Modigliani 's talent . |
| 19 | . It was a puzzle to me to think that any customers wanted any of these things in the alley he lived , but he did have a few visitors , because he dealt in antiques , he knew a great deal about them … |
| 20 | It was not possible to construct a satisfactory double blind challenge but he did have a positive open challenge to pure ethanol . |
| 21 | But he did have a long-established base on which to build — and that was the British class system . |
| 22 | ‘ Not now , that 's true , but he did have an older brother , who died nine years ago . ’ |
| 23 | It is very easy to read him wrong and to make mistakes , and there are , of course , occasions when he does offer a brutal simplicity , which it would be ridiculous to try and develop . |
| 24 | It is very easy to read him wrong , and to make mistakes , and there are of course occasions when he does offer a brutal simplicity which it would be ridiculous to , to try and develop . |
| 25 | But when he did appear a suffocating shame kept her rooted to the spot . |
| 26 | More often than not though , when he did make an absolute cock up , it was either a big occasion ( fa cup final ) , or the cameras were there ( throws ball in own net at Anfield ) . |
| 27 | This has n't got to much to do with his gangling , freakishly elongated frame , which he 's used to evolve a unique form of comedic body language , flapping around on stage as he does like a dislocated stick insect , the missing link between Jerry Lewis and Pee Wee Herman . |
| 28 | Both the scale of his operations and the degree of his specialization in financial business made him a unique figure in early Stuart England , though he did have a few other economic irons in the fire : among them , a share in the tobacco monopoly and the export of iron ordnance in the 1620s and huge purchases of East India Company pepper in 1623 and 1628 . |