Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an exasperated Bassett eventually did tell them to shut up , two of them immediately demanded police action because THEY had been offended and an investigation ensued . |
| 2 | Again , Herbert Spencer believed that evolution was an on and upward process of , of increasing perfection culminating in Victorian man , and Herbert Spencer probably did mean man as opposed to woman . |
| 3 | Arsenal really do keep things tight ; they gave little or no room in which to manoeuvre . |
| 4 | Ian Wright really does behave like a shithead . |
| 5 | An area where WordPerfect really does excel is that of printer drivers . |
| 6 | The West will face some difficult decisions if Mr Gorbachev really does make a dash for economic freedom . |
| 7 | I did not discard everything , for Vitamin A , B , C and little tablets of zinc and selenium made scientific sense , but poor , old Dr. Bach really did seem nonsense . |
| 8 | No one any longer seriously believes that Marie and Eleanor actually did preside over such tribunals . |
| 9 | Edward never did get in touch with Sally again . |
| 10 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |
| 11 | IBM always did go for the best , aiming for the long term . |
| 12 | ‘ Although it was partly an ego thing , I can see that Simon probably did love me — in his way . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Pete really did go for her then . |
| 14 | Anyhow , Sonja and Petra never did breakfast . |
| 15 | And Darwin explicitly did believe , in the inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 16 | And Aunt Janice never did remember any more about whatever Rory had hidden in his later work . |
| 17 | Last month a thirty-foot stretch of the walls of Urbino actually did fall down , provoking a ritual wailing and breast-beating in the Italian press last heard when the bell tower of Pavia cathedral collapsed in 1989 , killing three bystanders . |
| 18 | Denzil always did like bright colours . |
| 19 | When Yeats eventually did marry , in 1917 , his wife Georgie was made aware that she was strictly second-best . |
| 20 | After considerable discussion Mr Jones accepted the possibility that Olwyn perhaps did need love and attention but that it was just as likely she needed it because she behaved badly rather than the other way round . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sure if King Stephen ever did have the Empress in his power he would not wave a sword in her face , ’ she declared severely . |
| 22 | ‘ Cameron always did take a hard line on these things , ’ she tells her . |
| 23 | Buckley probably does do it differently , working towards less confrontation and for a solution that will last . |
| 24 | Thinking of her mother , always making the best of things ( or pretending to : when the train began to move she had stopped smiling ) Carrie nearly did cry . |
| 25 | This time Alyssia really did pull away , and he laughed under his breath . |
| 26 | Since Plato ( dreamed that he ) saw Socrates most days , and this was among the most vivid and consistent of all his experiences ( dreams ? ) , and since Socrates said things which he , Plato , had not thought of before and which sometimes surprised him , Plato found it most consistent and convenient to ’ believe ’ that Socrates really did exist . |
| 27 | ‘ That is , of course , if you were telling the truth and Silvia really did say something about going to Alghero . ’ |
| 28 | Belinda watched her , smiling at first because Faye really did seem pleased about the present , then with increasing anxiety . |
| 29 | If Mr Patten really does want to promote literacy he should set accessible books that the modern child can relate to and enjoy . |
| 30 | Willi often did turn up for rehearsals , had often done so . |