Example sentences of "[adv] did [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were several places kids obviously did get through ; Maxim widened one by yanking loose another plank and ducked in . |
| 2 | Some tyre levers and allan keys were missing but by driving slowly back I ( or rather we , as I 'd offered some fellow tourists a lift back to town ; what with delays getting started , and then this to-do , I bet they wished they 'd never bothered , it would have been quicker to walk ! — and when we finally did set off again , I accidentally left one of them behind , running along the road behind us waving and shouting ! ) — we , as I say , found most of the missing items . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And if they ever did set out to open up this place , ’ he said consideringly , ‘ there are a dozen more important places to begin , of course . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Hey , if I ever did sign on , I 'd need a pseudonym . ’ |
| 6 | Mother had told Mrs Archer at Baldersdale school that it was tonsillitis and I 'm not sure that she ever did find out the reality of it . |
| 7 | But she usually did turn up . |
| 8 | She always did choke off any men who showed signs of wanting to get close to her and she did n't know why she behaved like that . |
| 9 | ‘ You always did stay up late , ’ she said , moving towards him , standing provocatively close , before walking past him into the hall . |
| 10 | Because I think in the so called Good Old Days , you always did stand up when you heard the National Anthem played . |
| 11 | I tell you what I nearly wa , I nearly did end up like he did , I was frightened at one time ! |
| 12 | We nearly did go back , when despite picking what looked like the most innocuous section of the next cloud blocking the route , the VSI cranked round briefly to over 1,000 fpm ascent . |
| 13 | The whole of the introduction was a solemnly tongue-in-cheek exposition of this notion , though Greg had the impression that later the joke rather ran out of steam ( as the book very nearly did run out of authors to treat ) . |
| 14 | I , I actually think they probably did use up all that was possible available to them at the time , and so , in some ways , this is against the spirit of the policy , although the policies have been changed , and I hear what Councillor said about improvement to the place , and so I do n't think we 'd serve any useful purpose in stopping these people doing this , because they 're probably not the people who were responsible for the flagrant disobeying of the rules at the time . |
| 15 | The album was imminent but , just six days after the Bellis and Morrissey denial , The Smiths really did split up . |
| 16 | There were some boys that really did play up . |
| 17 | Because , in the summer of 1969 , people who 'd been consigned to the medical scrap heap , victims of the 1920s sleeping sickness or encephalitic epidemic , really did take up their beds and walk . |
| 18 | It really did wipe out all the plus signs . |
| 19 | Willi often did turn up for rehearsals , had often done so . |
| 20 | When he eventually did show up , it was obvious to all that he was a changed dog ! |
| 21 | Me being Miss Know-it-all did go out , and lo and behold I got arrested . |
| 22 | The latter could always turn round — and indeed did turn round — and say ‘ Sorry , love , I do n't mind working on them , but there does n't seem a lot of point in my giving up my free evenings when the star is unwilling to do the same . ’ |
| 23 | And we never did go back on the payroll after that . |
| 24 | But Carol Wilson never did go back to Virgin . |
| 25 | Halsey , Heath and Ridge have argued persuasively that the post-war education system 's achievements never did match up to the meritocratic ideals of its creators . |
| 26 | Esmerelda never did show up ; nobody saw her after me , as far as Diggs ' enquiries of trawlers and drilling-rigs and so on could show . |
| 27 | Pre-war values never did come back ; rent restriction never did cease to be considered necessary , even after the building of three or four million new houses ; subsidies never were discontinued . |
| 28 | ‘ He never did come back to us , ’ said the young man positively . |
| 29 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 30 | never did get round |