Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me being Miss Know-it-all did go out , and lo and behold I got arrested . |
| 2 | When the mail eventually did arrive , I received this very strange Christmas card which said , ‘ This year we will marry ’ . |
| 3 | In the second appeal , the tape clearly did demonstrate something about the gruffness and depth of the accused 's voice which could not have been gleaned from the transcript . |
| 4 | For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective . |
| 5 | Crime certainly did pay by the looks of it . |
| 6 | Levels of recorded crime certainly did shoot up in the years following the implementation of the 1933 Act , and the crime rate for boys under 14 years of age found guilty of indictable offences almost doubled in only three years . |
| 7 | The difference in accident estimates between right and left turns , t(22)=1.89 , p<0.05 , suggests that subjects may indeed have used feelings of risk inappropriately when giving their accident estimates ( alternatively , it is of course possible that the right turns used in this study actually did come from objectively more risky junctions than the left turns ) . |
| 8 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 9 | When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled . |
| 10 | When the law finally did catch up with Capone in 1931 , it was for tax evasion , and he was sentenced to 11 years in prison . |
| 11 | ‘ D'ye know , ’ he ventured cautiously , ‘ if the marriage ever did take place , all this part of Mayo would belong to the O'Malleys and the Drennans . |
| 12 | The cursed little white stick of wood always did annoy me , and when I see it domineering over the whole orchestra , music departs from me … |
| 13 | Many colonnades , staircases , doorways and corridors open on to the Central Courts and , if the bull dance really did take place there , they must have been protected in some way from the rampaging bulls . |
| 14 | Heaven help her if the other girl really did think she was involved with Dr Russell ! |
| 15 | A girl really did break her neck on those stairs . ’ |
| 16 | The girl really did seem perfect , and she also has some very good references , ’ Laura assured him . |
| 17 | The law as to this is best stated in the words of the judgment in Foster v. Mackinnon ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 C.P. 704 , 711 where it is said that a signature obtained by fraud ‘ is invalid not merely on the ground of fraud , where fraud exists , but on the ground that the mind of the signer did not accompany the signature ; in other words , that he never intended to sign , and therefore in contemplation of law never did sign , the contract to which his name is appended . ’ |
| 18 | Roman law never did have a doctrine that trusts should be set up by imperative words . |
| 19 | The Universe actually did begin with a Big Bang . |
| 20 | However , for this to act as an effective discipline , the market must believe that the government would not rescue the firm if bankruptcy actually did occur . |
| 21 | However , it must be emphasised that all the women who chose not to register for work actually did want paid employment and took up any employment opportunities which arose ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 22 | Do you know sweetheart I have often wondered since I knew about things whether a brother or sister ever did love with such a love as ours . |
| 23 | Marryat — as a writer read by boys , men being already too dulled in the sense at twenty to appreciate him — has probably , through the boys , exercised the greatest influence on the English character that any writer ever did exercise . |
| 24 | Daddy always did say to do what you do best , and I am very good at it … so they say . ’ |
| 25 | Not because I actually felt at home with all the ‘ weirdos ’ in there but because the shop really did look like my nan 's house . |
| 26 | The free wine really did put everyone in the right mood for the rest of the evening when you could sit back and be entertained or dance to the disco music outside on the terrace . |
| 27 | Your kindness and sincerity really did restore my faith in human nature . |
| 28 | Several consequences of the war ultimately did lead some in British society towards fascism , however . |
| 29 | Frolik certainly did expose some real spies including Nicholas Praeger , who had given the Czechs details of the RAF 's electronic counter-measures equipment codenamed Blue Diver and Red Steer . |
| 30 | Pointy-Beard never did make it to his feet . |