Example sentences of "[pron] did [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did hold down a responsible job in my last post , ’ she said . |
| 2 | ‘ I did lock up ! ’ said Marie . |
| 3 | I did sit down , but said nothing , and he went on , " It 's your own fault entirely . |
| 4 | I did sit in yesterday at Transport Exec and Planning , but no doubt they will be forthcoming |
| 5 | But I did feel out of touch and missed what was often a superficial but nevertheless very sustaining daily relationship . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But I did stand in for one of your girls at Jenkinsons last week — and I sold the suit I showed . ’ |
| 7 | So I did go round . |
| 8 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 9 | But I did go out or something . |
| 10 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 11 | I erm I did go down to Durban |
| 12 | ‘ I did go back recently on a concert tour . |
| 13 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 14 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 15 | About time I did walk round . |
| 16 | Erm I did give out a plea about two hours ago that I lost my umbrella at the music festival this weekend . |
| 17 | But I did wake up once in the night . |
| 18 | I did end up teaching — but not French . ’ |
| 19 | I think I did end up working for them though . ’ |
| 20 | Although I did phone up to protest about what Brian Clough was at , when he dropped Bremner and Clarke in favour of McGovern and O'Hare . |
| 21 | But fortunately I did write down |
| 22 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 24 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 25 | Recently I did take up a form of gardening , indoor gardening . |
| 26 | But after that I did take up private nursing . |
| 27 | I did take out one thing about the bible since it was going to somebody in the States in the bible belt and I did n't |
| 28 | But he was pleased when I did take off at his command . |
| 29 | I I did glance over yesterday er |
| 30 | Whilst I did track down what I thought was the best , several of them , in fact quite a number of them , said " no " . |