Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My mum did marry her one , ’ said Camille . |
| 2 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 3 | So my job did turn out to be work after all . |
| 4 | I told it not , My wrath did grow . |
| 5 | I told my wrath , My wrath did end . |
| 6 | My landlord did get me out eventually . |
| 7 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 8 | ‘ My wife did know that Nicola and I were having an affair . ’ |
| 9 | I do not recollect that we ever tried it , although my father did bring me home a bottle containing two or three sticks of white phosphorus , at the same time showing me the mark on his thigh where , so he said , a piece of phosphorus has fallen while he was attempting to write on a wall with it . |
| 10 | My father did give money to the Arabs to keep his head . ’ |
| 11 | My father did have a bike actually |
| 12 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 13 | ‘ My cousin did tell you the terms ? ’ |
| 14 | But you might say , and I councillor did say in fact that of course we would be most unfair in the way that we did this because to quote from him er we were giving no time , no time for discussion , no time for evaluation no time . |
| 15 | Only when I had the body in my hand did see it was a goldcrest . |
| 16 | My form did dip last season and the criticism did begin to affect me , but I thought ‘ Sod it . |
| 17 | My son did get a job in a button factory and an optician 's but he was laid off from both because of lack of demand . |
| 18 | My soul did hang as in a pair of scales , sometimes up and sometimes down , now in peace and anon in terror . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ My mother did make it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Besides , my mother did write . |
| 21 | I 'm sure my father would be really pleased if my boyfriend did approach him , though . |
| 22 | Her patience did wear thin but , in general , she resigned herself graciously to being the leader of the pack . |
| 23 | It 's therefore to give too much credit to Wilko on their developement although their play did improve greatly under his guidance . |
| 24 | When we asked all the branches in Environmental Services if they had anything we should know about and put into print for the next Environmental Issues , such as had they done anything exciting or out of the ordinary recently , Branch manager from Pest Control Sheffield , Henri Amiss was quick to point out that everything their branch did set them apart from other branches . |
| 25 | Plaid Cymru , which did a similar deal , voted with the Government , acknowledging that its deal did go further . |
| 26 | But you ca n't love words without appreciating these aspects , and it would be a more civilised world if more of those who have to use words extensively in their work did love them . |
| 27 | Peters said : ‘ They threw everything at us and got nothing , whereas our small breaks to their half did produce points . |
| 28 | They put Odette on a rigid , six-month diet and after losing two stone , she found her asthma did improve . |
| 29 | But her husband did have consolation on Saturday , as we talked over Scotch and Peking duck : the sound of American cheers for his robust version of Boris Godunov . |
| 30 | They found that more than half their sample did have previous admissions within the preceding year . |