Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 32 | Get out of my filofax , I put you did last time |
| 33 | He says we did have several concerns and we suggested some stringent conditions . |
| 34 | I hope we did feel truly grateful for our merciful preservation … |
| 35 | I really believed he did love this suede . |
| 36 | If I could manage to absorb a tablet in between the bouts of vomiting it did stop the sickness and bring a pain-free sleep — but it left me too exhausted to do anything about enjoying life . |
| 37 | He says he did think of whipping up and running them down , but it would have been useless , they could shoot far faster than we could drive at them . |
| 38 | But Greg says he did set out to irritate his former boss as he got there first with talks with RHM last May . |
| 39 | Dad says he did shut the door — ’ |
| 40 | ‘ I hope he did mellow . |
| 41 | Barnett , what is there to make you think she did visit me ? ’ |
| 42 | ‘ I do n't think you did make a mistake , ’ Ruth told him with resignation . |
| 43 | Yes , well he s he did take it up with me as a , er , I mean you did take it up |
| 44 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
| 45 | I 've got I did have the other one , Crossroads , but the reason why I had it was because Dave was in the house and he had it . |
| 46 | erm I did see I did see you on television . |
| 47 | But you did look you did look truly awful in that picture that appeared in the newspapers you looked as if |
| 48 | The pressure — it 'll be off them , they are no longer champions — but let's remember they did finish in fourth place and I 've got a feeling that they 're not giving anything away at Oxford Speedway , because they never do . |
| 49 | He 'd thought he did love her , until she went on worrying at it , thrashing it to and fro , churning up feelings like a dog digging up a bone . |
| 50 | ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 51 | We did make we did make this point to Keith actually very very clearly , |
| 52 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |
| 53 | I mean we did have one at Easter time did n't we ? |
| 54 | I mean we did have |
| 55 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 56 | I confess I did have a wife until recently , but , alas , no son — or daughter . ’ |
| 57 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 58 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 59 | you know I did say to Brian |
| 60 | Do n't really like to you know I did have a that made me so close to it . |