Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't say with any certainty where I did go , but it was n't home . |
| 2 | On the other hand , a new training school has been set up where I did find excellent service , friendly and helpful instructors and a range of aircraft rates which are almost unbelievable . |
| 3 | You do n't often see photos of this I 've only ever found one , here 's one , or I did find one . |
| 4 | but we stayed home then , yeah I 'm not quite sure where you did go |
| 5 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 6 | Or she did do . |
| 7 | Where we did use to run among |
| 8 | where they did build a school for them you see . |
| 9 | Almost as proof , Kinnaird and Marie Steele , lecturer in Strathclyde University 's department of human resources management and one of the four opening speakers acting as ‘ catalysts ’ for the discussion , set the dismal scene : the unbelievably low number of female applicants for top jobs , the discontinuity between the high rate of female academic achievement in secondary , tertiary and professional education and career patterns , the patchiness of those career patterns in various sectors where they did break through . |
| 10 | The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services . |
| 11 | Sometimes examinations , where they did take place , were not a very searching test of ability . |
| 12 | Where he did intervene in public , it was generally to lend support to ‘ legal ’ discriminatory measures — for the most part popular and meeting with widespread approval — excluding Jews from German society and the economy . |
| 13 | He then became registrar at Leeds General Infirmary , before taking up a fellowship at Harvard Medical School , where he did research into organ transplants . |
| 14 | Where he did have strong personal views , he proved less willing or less able to implement them over the opposition of others . |
| 15 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 16 | Briefly summing up , there seems to be little doubt that Mozart distinguished dots and strokes , and while he was nonchalant about the graphic shapes where it mattered little , he distinguished the signs with deliberation where it did matter . |
| 17 | Where it did occur , it helped improve project design and correct local misconceptions of investments and their impact , " the report says . |
| 18 | I , I have n't actually got to be in at any time except I did say I 'd be in at half nine . |
| 19 | They guarded their independence fiercely and neither Chris nor I dared ask too often how much progress was being made . |
| 20 | ‘ Although I did watch the Ten in session from the visitors ’ gallery . ’ |
| 21 | To me all the cows looked similar — small and black all over although I did recognize that some had longer horns and a few had none at all . |
| 22 | He must have found it very tiresome , although I did sing in tune , and I 'm afraid went through several verses . |
| 23 | I used to get them various gigs at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street and the Roundhouse , and some dates at universities throughout the country , but there was n't an awful lot coming in although I did succeed in getting him a TV appearance and the producer , who was a good friend of mine , said , ‘ I 'll not have this guy on my programme with long hair ’ . ’ |
| 24 | But really I do n't think so , although I did speak to the Reading manager Ian Porterfield a few minutes ago and he does seem relaxed and so do his players , so you know I am a little worried now , now we 're getting nearer kick-off I 'm beginning to get a little more worried . |
| 25 | Being aware of the strict alcohol regulations , I did not object to this , although I did think it rather unfair that a school-friend was obliged to dispose of his soft drink before he entered the ground . |
| 26 | I did as I was told , although I did go off it once , I confess , to watch a lad from Leeds ferreting for rabbits . |
| 27 | Although I did go and watch the rugby , I never was a great one for , and I , I used to swim quite a lot . |
| 28 | And , although I did go home for a few holidays , most I seem to remember were spent elsewhere with friends or at special holiday camps that some of the other boarders went to . ’ |
| 29 | The inner door has a large mosquito net , although I did feel the mesh should have been on the outside of the door flap so you could keep bugs out . |
| 30 | Yes , but it did n't happen , although I did feel a little better for being at least partially honest . |