Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 2 | I never did have any ambitions really — I never did want to do anything . |
| 3 | ‘ You always did have strange ideas . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ By the Lord , Jimmie , you always did have rose-edged ambitions , but like sunsets they fade . ’ |
| 5 | She probably did remember that incident on the beach . |
| 6 | by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us |
| 7 | ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ? |
| 8 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 9 | Though he nearly did wed three times . |
| 10 | He really did love this land . |
| 11 | He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home . |
| 12 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |