Example sentences of "[adv] we did [vb infin] " in BNC.

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31 Well we did have a look but we have n't found it anywhere .
32 Well we did have a letter off erm Good Neighbours through the lady who also came to sing , cos I know her
33 Well we did have one good result locally ; nice to see Abingdon Town back on the winning trail again ; Vauxhall League division two south that was , Abingdon Town three , Horsham nil , our reporter , Nick Quayle .
34 Their enterprise began as a wholefood store — ‘ we had very little stock but all those years ago we did manage to get organic Basmati rice ’ — with a little tearoom at the back and a Malaysian feast once a week .
35 We all groaned a bit and snivelled like kids , and we were putting it on , but we were only putting it on because underneath we did feel sad seeing our names rubbed out .
36 And here we did see , by particular favour , the body of Queen Katherine of Valois ; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands , and I did kiss her mouth , reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queene , and this was my birthday , thirty-six years old , that I did kiss a Queene . ’
37 And in fact , quite fortuitously we did bring along a plan today which has a six mile radius , erm from the Centre of York which was er the subject of some discussion at the greenbelt local plan enquiry and by and large , erm there is some consistency between the outer boundary or the greenbelt erm and the Greater York study area , both at around about six miles from the city centre .
38 Maybe we did look like an ideal exciting couple ’ , says Ferrier .
39 Then we did loose leaves .
40 I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills .
41 And indeed we did give them an an undertaking er that that would be done .
42 At least we did have boss , sometime it 's not being good you can say , they 've been good , and they say ah , it 's just what Phil wants .
43 Yet we did detect an easing off in harassment of Republicans and of itinerants .
44 There was very little else we did have in those days .
45 Actually we did press him a bit and he gave the usual reasons .
46 Ah , number four , interesting one this , actually we did have a few er , mishaps on number four , employed client twenty four thousand , I 'll just do this one on the board , I think it might be an idea .
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