Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] do [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 They found I did have river blindness .
2 I really believed he did love this suede .
3 hopefully it 's gon na be some form of positive response I 'm glad you should say that because if you cast your mind back to when we first talked I did say that if you were happy , and only if you 're happy ,
4 And she called she did ask the girl for er two er cream doughnuts
5 It was of the kind that one is warned against sleeping upon , but I knew she did sleep upon it .
6 Despite her outrage and hurt , Isabel knew she did care if fitzAlan lived or died .
7 This was the way I always imagined Cedric would get home , if he ever did , but the only person I knew who did manage to negotiate the mysterious overland route was a Lancaster pilot on one of our neighbouring stations and he did the whole thing , from being shot down to arriving back in England , in three weeks .
8 Asked if he knew who DID write it he added : ‘ I do n't intend to make further inquiries . ’
9 I thought you did work on something .
10 If you 've ever tried to explain something to somebody , that 's a very reliable way of revealing to yourself that you did n't understanding something that you thought you did understand .
11 I thought you did ask some , there were a lot of good overall questions to start with but I think they tailed away very quickly .
12 ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them .
13 The High Elves place little faith in war machines in open battle , thought they do use repeater bolt throwers in reasonable numbers .
14 Simon said goodness knew he did object to being blown to pieces : but , No .
15 Yet she knew it did matter .
16 I thought it did show up , but I mean it was n't part of it 's a natural part of
17 ‘ I 've had a little help from Barry Humphries in this , and I hope I 've paid him due credit , thought he did start that nasty rumour that he was me or I was him .
18 The revenue figure is 20% down on 1991 and the company revealed it did make a loss last year , though the size was not disclosed .
19 Yeah I did I did go through it .
20 See if you can remember because we did we did talk to you a very short time about this on Monday .
21 We did we did evaluate that option er as part of the er early assessments , I do n't have the results today .
22 We did we did manage to recruit nine during the year but we lost er four by death as Kerry has mentioned , three by removal or one or two elderly people moving into er sheltered or into homes and things like that where they 're no longer contactable , and there were ten lapses making a total of seventeen that we lost er as against nine new members recruited , which meant that we have a nett have a nett loss of eight from a hundred and four to the present total of ninety six .
23 Er and so we did we did we did look at the traffic flows and monitor them .
24 Did what to do expect you to get on with and
25 And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive
26 I said I do want it but I do n't like the game .
27 I said well frankly Cheryl with her record I 'm not in I said she takes off when she pleases , she comes down when she wants something I said she doing me some good at christmas I said I do I quite understand that I said I do understand and I 'm I 've nothing nothing to do with me that 's entirely up to you and she said and you would n't tell me what to do you wo n't change our minds , I said no I 'm not trying to change your minds but you asked me what I would do I said and I think there and now she 's She said and I do n't care what you done , I 'll do I 'll do , I said she 's got hundreds of where they smash the windows and break into so regularly .
28 They do n't have a problem at all it does n't seem to er be part of their daily lives er , that said I do have a farmer of my acquaintance , when I say my acquaintance he happens to be my son-in-law .
29 so he said I did say I 'm bringing my wife , she said oh yeah how many times have I heard that before
30 I wished I did feel sick .
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