Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably I did hear him right saying that Labour 's spending plans were predicated on assumptions about Labour 's ability to produce economic growth . |
| 2 | It was an absolute brute but eventually I did manage to dig it all out . |
| 3 | E eventually I did get a job . |
| 4 | Yes , eventually I did put it down to your job , worried about Steve being so long away and anxious to tie up the contract , but there was a worse fear — that you just did n't love me enough to want to stay with me . ’ |
| 5 | Or perhaps I did diagnose it but I 've forgotten . |
| 6 | Perhaps I did underestimate your intelligence . ’ |
| 7 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think perhaps I did scratch him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I did jump , but on the evidence I was justified . |
| 10 | Perhaps I did have a few lucky breaks as an investigator , now and then — and some useful assistance , here and there . |
| 11 | So he er he was most upset was poor Ben so I did explain to him that what he had to do with policemen if they were n't feeling too good was to try and avoid saying things er quite as straightforwardly as that . |
| 12 | So I did go round . |
| 13 | So I did record it again ; let's see how far it has gone this time ! |
| 14 | So I did save her life . |
| 15 | So I did say to your mum here you , you would see Jackie 's photo . |
| 16 | yeah , so I did have to guess a great deal |
| 17 | because er it 's obviously gon na fill a gap in my financial planning that I 'd not thought about in the past so I did find it particularly helpful . |
| 18 | Though they did n't read much they had a huge library and they just left me to it so I did read without direction . |
| 19 | So I did need gravel which was totally hardness-free . |
| 20 | Perhaps she did trick me but , well , I can see why she was frantic and why she 's as she is . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps she did buy that picture because it is concerned with loneliness , with " the contemplation of time passing without meaning " , " 1 and moved then , momentarily , hesitantly , towards all the other lost travellers . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps you did teach her . |
| 23 | So she did give but she would pay for wherever we went in a cafe . |
| 24 | So you did feel a great urge to conceive or bear a child yourself ? |
| 25 | So you did want to get married once ? ’ |
| 26 | So you did see . ’ |
| 27 | So who did kill Albie ? |
| 28 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 29 | Now how a man who works on can think there 's anything funny about species I just ca n't understand erm but there it is. erm well , suppose , however , that in my view wrongly one did suppose that there was something erm in this sort of idea of the decoupling between the processes which we observed in single populations and erm the sort of mechanisms leading to large scale evolution , what kinds of processes are held to be important when it comes to large scale evolution events ? |
| 30 | So we did suggest and I did believe your party to support erm , a process where we did consult with local people but we also took other factors into consideration . |