Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HSMorris Bristol PS I did find the article amusing and am no less a woman because I did . |
| 2 | Yes , he 's always jumping on me to tell me to do more for local radio and get South East Arts and South East Arts clients more regularly in contact with local radio , and I must admit on the latter case I do think that many of our clients do spend a great deal of time and erm want to be active with local radio . |
| 3 | So , in this case I do inherit a new form , do I ? |
| 4 | The kind the military use , just in case I do want to play the major . ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in this case I do believe there is some value in tracing differences in the perspectives from which various groups of colleagues seemed to have developed their thinking . |
| 6 | I did n't want his title or his money , although I must say in all honesty I did enjoy the London season . |
| 7 | Chairman I do have a couple of questions , I do have a couple of questions if I may . |
| 8 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 9 | The only , the only bit I did find was the very last part during the course did n't sound as natural as the rest of it . |
| 10 | I was scolded for an hour by Bessie as the most ungrateful child in the world , and indeed with so much hate in my heart I did feel wicked . |
| 11 | Well of course I do know that the , the only answer to it , of course , is for the christian way but it 's not what it , that 's going to happen . |
| 12 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 15 | Despite the failings of the course I did have an excellent time and was not put off continuing with chemistry . |
| 16 | Although it is not a mountain tent I did take it on a high camp with a family group . |
| 17 | Persuading others to accept the hard financial facts of life is not usually a very popular job , but he does it with great tact and skill , and under his guidance I do believe that our deficit is under control , and that it will be reduced . |
| 18 | I 'm not naturally slim , and any excess weight I do put on shows because I 'm only 5′ 1″ . |
| 19 | And , ’ he added with a malevolent glint in his eyes , ‘ at your interview I did point out that I was n't offering a nine-to-five sinecure . ’ |
| 20 | and I bi , you know that big loft I helped get the , get the la big lathe he bought from the |
| 21 | Well , a side which did win and won well ; Bicester against Swindon Athletic in the Hellenic League premier division ; Bicester six , Swindon Athletic one , to tell us about it , Charlie Rawling . |
| 22 | One line of research which does appear to support the idea of arousal as an important psychological construct while simultaneously making empirical tests of its effects more complex is the work of H. J. Eysenck on individual differences ( H. J. Eysenck , 1967 ; H. J. Eysenck & M. W. Eysenck , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that there is one section of the department which does have regular problems of robbery and criminal damage — our Parking Section . |
| 24 | However , there is one sharply defined grammatical prediction which does follow from this proposal : An adjective which does not share a referential locus with its head noun should be unacceptable in postnominal position , since assignment specifically applies the property of the adjective to the subject . |
| 25 | But I have put to Graham a way round our dilemma which does involve you . |
| 26 | Moreover , that those increases in recorded crime which did occur came after the onset of the panic . |
| 27 | Any remedy which does affect Orfe will say so in the instructions . |
| 28 | The 29.5 per cent of the electorate who did vote Tory under the circumstances of February 1974 must have known what they were doing — contesting the ‘ unconstitutional claims of the disruptive sectional union interests ’ — but they did not form a sufficiently large social bloc . |
| 29 | Derek Edwards spoke , too , of the presence of Charismatics in Orkney : ‘ It 's known that there is one social worker in this very small department who does belong to a Charismatic Christian Fellowship . |
| 30 | Those few casual workers in the catering industry who do seem to work on a more or less continuous , almost full-time basis over a long period for a single organisation ( the plaintiffs in the oft-cited " O'Kelly case " ) , tend to possess skills which that organisation , and indeed other potential employers , value . |