Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that really did astound her , for she had assumed he must know , and that was why he was so convinced of her guilt . |
| 2 | There were some boys that really did play up . |
| 3 | ‘ As for any home , I 've none , nor never did have , ’ she said quickly to distract him from too much thinking . |
| 4 | In the 80s , shares reached record heights and so did skirt lengths . |
| 5 | Between 1986 and 1989 the prices of the country 's two main exports , coffee and cocoa , halved , and so did export earnings from them , to $776 million from $1.5 billion . |
| 6 | Of course the young girls , they sometimes started off very enthusiastic and perhaps did do quite a lot without realising the implications and effect of it but the older women often had trouble keeping up . |
| 7 | Mary Ann Doane 's argument concerning the ‘ women 's films ’ of the 1940s , for example , was that these products of mainstream fiction cinema were directed at a female audience and thus did construct a female gaze . |
| 8 | No she got up and fucking did go . |
| 9 | He was a firm atheist and was interested in , though unconvinced by , the paranormal , and also did research on hypnosis . |
| 10 | Yes , I heard you , yes , I heard you say the other day , and also did read in the press , where you 've been quoted , Councillor Warby , that you would build various by-passes and no doubt you will be putting , I have n't yet heard any amendments to the capital goal . |
| 11 | But Mrs Thatcher could equally have meant ( and probably did mean ) ‘ to stall for time ’ . |
| 12 | I wanted them to learn the piano and both did learn . |
| 13 | Eventually , I rang the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and said I 'd got this botfly and really did need a bit of surgery , and they said ‘ Come along today . ’ |
| 14 | And fast did hold in slumber safe , |
| 15 | The latter could always turn round — and indeed did turn round — and say ‘ Sorry , love , I do n't mind working on them , but there does n't seem a lot of point in my giving up my free evenings when the star is unwilling to do the same . ’ |
| 16 | In January he surprised everyone and actually did resign . |
| 17 | A water supply was very slow coming to Baldersdale and never did arrive at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 18 | I just put down Ex-Soldier and never did change it , even when he came in a couple of minutes later with his canvas bag over his shoulder . |
| 19 | I do n't have it , and never did have it ! ’ |
| 20 | He found that the squatters ' actions were not foreseeable in this sense and therefore did amount to a novus actus interveniens . |
| 21 | The House took the point further : not just did " inflict " require direct application of force , but so did assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault . |
| 22 | The Court was much less explicit on the matter , but nevertheless did hold that the transaction was not incapable of falling within the scope of the Directive on the ground that it ‘ arises out of the grant of subsidies to foundations or associations whose services are not remunerated . ’ |
| 23 | So erm yes I think everybody 's very very disappointed as I think we probably heard with Paul Simpson because United certainly in my books , played some of the best football I 've seen them play since they 've been back in the second division in the erm first half , but really did let things slip away a little bit in the second . |