Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] do [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I perhaps do have some sympathy for Harrogate 's position . |
| 2 | Well I always do come this way ! |
| 3 | And I really do think that is poor . |
| 4 | I I really do think that . |
| 5 | I really do think that one of the things that I 'm unhappy about this evening is that people are concerned that our profession is n't caring . |
| 6 | That has been our major worry and I think for us now to go away and just allow it to go ahead , twenty years on , without any improvements , without the link road and without improvements to Hill I think is an abdication of our duties and I really do think that . |
| 7 | And I really do think that ! |
| 8 | Although visibility remains a problem I really do think this repositioning is an important step forward . |
| 9 | I really do love this old place . ’ |
| 10 | I really do love this old place , Mandy had said . |
| 11 | I really do appreciate all kindness you have given to me , Jean . |
| 12 | I really do understand that . ’ |
| 13 | I really do see this age as a time to widen horizons . |
| 14 | I really do like that hat ! |
| 15 | ‘ I really do find that hard to believe . ’ |
| 16 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 17 | ‘ I never did hold much of a brief for your father , but it seems as if your mother was n't much better ! ’ he said , his voice making clear how lacking in sympathy he found her family . |
| 18 | I never did have any ambitions really — I never did want to do anything . |
| 19 | I never did like those open topped buses . |
| 20 | I never did know much about Shakespeare . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I never did trust that new Mayor Mutton nor none of his creatures neither , ’ said she . |
| 22 | I never did lose any at all , but a couple did go missing one day and there was hell to pay . |
| 23 | She probably did remember that incident on the beach . |
| 24 | There was no attempt to glamorise her visually but by words and performance she really did become that desirable lady , one who would indeed swim naked with a Greek boatman . |
| 25 | ‘ After our night together , when Peter turned up next day , you were so savage , as if you really did believe all those terrible things you were saying about me — I do n't understand why you changed so suddenly — ’ |
| 26 | Her smile widening , she queried , ‘ You really do think that 's why I followed you ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You really do need some sleep , do n't you ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe you really do have that fast , incisive mind I 've been hearing so much about lately ? ’ |
| 29 | And if you really do have any feelings left for me , then you wo n't try to stop me . ’ |
| 30 | But we always do have such a choice and hence no sentence has observational consequences all its own . |