Example sentences of "[noun] she did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some steps she did remember having seen before , perhaps she would find them down there . |
| 2 | She did n't find it , but buried right down at the bottom she did find a tape cassette in a box . |
| 3 | Robbie would have been happy to listen quietly , for the snippets she did overhear told her more about Fenton Marshall . |
| 4 | and the woman who took the course she did say had she had done the reading work it |
| 5 | And er but of course she did lose the baby . |
| 6 | In Mrs Clark 's case she did beat the tender , but the police appealed the decision . |
| 7 | She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face . |
| 8 | But the credits she did have outweighed such difficulties . |
| 9 | by gawld she did look young |
| 10 | I said to Joan I said well when we came here five years ago , I 'm glad we did n't get her , by gawld she did look young |
| 11 | And when later that day she did return she found that her mother , worn out with upbraiding the daughter who had disgraced her , had taken to her bed . |
| 12 | Her wardrobe was , of course , immediately refurbished when she arrived , and continually added to , though on occasion she did wear ‘ Scottish dress ’ , to the patronizing admiration of the French . |
| 13 | Oh what grand stories she did tell . |
| 14 | In accompanying school staff to the warehouses she was in a position to offer some advice , and in processing actual orders she did appear to exercise a tempering influence . |
| 15 | The half-erased graffiti on the silver train she did notice , without being able to identify it as man-made . |
| 16 | It took her an absolute age to get off to sleep that night , and what sleep she did get was only sketchy . |
| 17 | She slept badly , with what sleep she did get punctuated with dreams where Barney was driving away in her car , and where Cara was blaming her for letting him take it . |
| 18 | You can often allow a verb and an object together , but never a subject and a verb , so sentence three and five you can say Florence said she teased Dougal and she did , I E she did tease Dougal , but sentence four is ill-formed . |
| 19 | One thing she did know however was that she was n't running after him . |
| 20 | She did n't know what she was waiting for , a miracle perhaps , because one thing she did know , and that was that Patsy was right . |
| 21 | One thing she did know , she was not going to attract the attention of the men out there beyond the panels of the door . |
| 22 | One thing she did know , however — there were no roots here for her , nothing to find . |
| 23 | But one thing she did say was that our friend Fernie is going around telling everyone Connon killed his wife . |
| 24 | Although she knew no amount of imagination would take her away from this prison , for fleeting moments she did manage to escape into her book . |
| 25 | She rarely attempted to create new routines but one idea she did think up had painful consequences . |
| 26 | It did n't , and by the time she did reach the village it was fully dark — and pouring with rain . |
| 27 | Most of the time she did look lovely , despite her apparel . |
| 28 | This time she did get a response . |
| 29 | If Mrs Hamilton had realised that she was pregnant , she would have stopped smoking , and in fact she did stop after the miscarriage . ’ |