Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the clergyman who eventually did open the door might have been included in this category , surprised though she was to see him . |
| 2 | It was run by a man and his wife who obviously did know Schellenberg well . |
| 3 | For not only would the developers — who always did have a reputation as sharp dressers — be examples of sartorial elegance but the traditionally staid chartered surveyors would also have swapped their green-check jackets and corduroy trousers for double-breasted suits , red braces and ties that were more of a ‘ statement ’ than a fashion accessory . |
| 4 | Speaker K's contribution ‘ picks up ’ the past time element , moving closer to speaker J's time while maintaining the personal reference in my father , who also did work ( stonemason ) comparable to J's ( bricklayer ) and received money for this work . |
| 5 | The engine will also be offering lessons on the footplate to all those who really did want to be engine drivers when they grew up , with the help of an experienced fireman . |
| 6 | Not for professional historians so much as for people who really did want to have a version of England 's past which makes some sense sort of sense now . |
| 7 | People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her . |
| 8 | More self-indulgent self-important twaddle , the product of a rock star who really did believe his own press , his own myth . |
| 9 | This she loved , and it led to her , Dad and Shadwell going to dinners and parties with all kinds of ( fairly ) important people — not the sort we knew in the suburbs , but the real thing : people who really did write and direct plays and not just talk about it . |
| 10 | They seemed silly and childish and so much less wise than us who really did live in a drab and depressing world and yet found happiness in it . |
| 11 | The specific plan announced by Schuman had been drafted by Jean Monnet who certainly did see it as only a first step in a chain that would ultimately lead to political integration . |
| 12 | ( Stuart Maconie , 6/4/91 who actually did award the Single Of The Week plaudit ) |
| 13 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 14 | On the other hand , given the state of confusion in France and the fact that Thorez himself was in Moscow , it was not clear that the communist hierarchy was in a position to control communist maquisards , many of whom undoubtedly did have revolutionary aspirations . |