Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably I did hear him right saying that Labour 's spending plans were predicated on assumptions about Labour 's ability to produce economic growth . |
| 2 | It was an absolute brute but eventually I did manage to dig it all out . |
| 3 | E eventually I did get a job . |
| 4 | Yes , eventually I did put it down to your job , worried about Steve being so long away and anxious to tie up the contract , but there was a worse fear — that you just did n't love me enough to want to stay with me . ’ |
| 5 | Or perhaps I did diagnose it but I 've forgotten . |
| 6 | Perhaps I did underestimate your intelligence . ’ |
| 7 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think perhaps I did scratch him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I did jump , but on the evidence I was justified . |
| 10 | Perhaps I did have a few lucky breaks as an investigator , now and then — and some useful assistance , here and there . |
| 11 | So he er he was most upset was poor Ben so I did explain to him that what he had to do with policemen if they were n't feeling too good was to try and avoid saying things er quite as straightforwardly as that . |
| 12 | So I did go round . |
| 13 | So I did record it again ; let's see how far it has gone this time ! |
| 14 | So I did save her life . |
| 15 | So I did say to your mum here you , you would see Jackie 's photo . |
| 16 | yeah , so I did have to guess a great deal |
| 17 | because er it 's obviously gon na fill a gap in my financial planning that I 'd not thought about in the past so I did find it particularly helpful . |
| 18 | Though they did n't read much they had a huge library and they just left me to it so I did read without direction . |
| 19 | So I did need gravel which was totally hardness-free . |
| 20 | On the advert that 's gone in I did wonder whether to put please respond by such and such a date ? |
| 21 | We generally assume that stress falls on DO when used for emphasis , as in I did see him . |
| 22 | If you put two eights in I did put another eight in , but that 's six or eight . |
| 23 | When Mr Hatton began paying large sums in I did attempt to persuade him to open one , the rate of interest being so desirable , you understand . |
| 24 | Perhaps she did trick me but , well , I can see why she was frantic and why she 's as she is . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps she did buy that picture because it is concerned with loneliness , with " the contemplation of time passing without meaning " , " 1 and moved then , momentarily , hesitantly , towards all the other lost travellers . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps you did teach her . |
| 27 | So she did give but she would pay for wherever we went in a cafe . |
| 28 | So you did feel a great urge to conceive or bear a child yourself ? |
| 29 | So you did want to get married once ? ’ |
| 30 | So you did see . ’ |