Example sentences of "[pron] did [vb infin] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's got four lorries in there now an' I did 'ear 'e was lookin' fer anuvver place . |
| 2 | I did love him , you see . |
| 3 | She saw kindness in his face and compassion , and she whispered , ‘ I did love him so . |
| 4 | ‘ But I did love him . |
| 5 | If I did love him , she thought more soberly , he 'd be the first one that I have , maybe . |
| 6 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
| 7 | It was a good thing I did meet him , as the Well of Lunatics proved to be a long way away . |
| 8 | then also er a talk with the dep about what he 's gon na say , and I 'm gon na put at the beginning please do not refer to this as being prepared for you , that 's two times he 's been to a launch and said that and he do n't give it such a spontaneous thing , so er I did meet him and tell him |
| 9 | But I did meet him down there . |
| 10 | I did shock him with one answer , cos he he was expecting a totally different answer to the one I gave him which was correct , and you know that is unusual for me , but er I did shock him with one , but other than that it was erm it was er an excellent input all the way through the day , and they explained the differences and why they er approved some products and not the others , things like that , it was er spot on . |
| 11 | I did shock him with one answer , cos he he was expecting a totally different answer to the one I gave him which was correct , and you know that is unusual for me , but er I did shock him with one , but other than that it was erm it was er an excellent input all the way through the day , and they explained the differences and why they er approved some products and not the others , things like that , it was er spot on . |
| 12 | But , I did think he was cheeky , I mean it was so blatant . |
| 13 | The thing that , that annoys me about Nigel , I did think he was a really good actor but he 's only ever angry |
| 14 | ‘ I think perhaps I did scratch him . ’ |
| 15 | I did miss him , though , and I quickly met up with a new boyfriend , Mark , in whom I again confided about my strange ‘ food hang-ups ’ , as I called them , whilst keeping my other friendships quite superficial by always pretending everything was fine . |
| 16 | But I did tell him about Jordi . |
| 17 | I did tell him to write to you . |
| 18 | Later , however , I did tell him that the meeting had been a disaster and that if he thought it had mollified the press in any way he was greatly mistaken . |
| 19 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 20 | I did tell him it was |
| 21 | I did tell him how much it was I said sixteen pound sixteen pound for Angela . |
| 22 | ‘ I did blackmail him . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I did affect him , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Because I did choose him , Chips , and quite deliberately , whatever you and he may think . ’ |
| 25 | I did phone him when I got to Rio a couple of months later . |
| 26 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 27 | And I did like him , James . |
| 28 | But it 's true , I did like him . |
| 29 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 30 | ‘ I did ring him up once . |