Example sentences of "[Wh pn] really did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | More self-indulgent self-important twaddle , the product of a rock star who really did believe his own press , his own myth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |