Example sentences of "[pron] did [vb infin] [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , at first I did do all the humdrum work , though to be honest , I never found it dull .
2 But there was still a problem about the label Education , and also that I did have such a very large chunk of air-time , 15 per cent of the Channel .
3 Of those firms which did possess such a strategy , a quarter had not reviewed it for more than two years , making it only mildly effective .
4 Er I myself and many others were here for two and a half years and I submit to you that this is a considerable portion of one 's adult lifetime and consequently , the experiences of the last three days have been very meaningful and very moving to those of us who did spend such a portion of our lives here in this place .
5 Then you obviously had a you did say such a lot of in the Radio Times somewhere I was reading today about er colours you wear .
6 Oh , what I told you before was quite true — we did argue all the time .
7 We did have all the posession without SOUNDING like there were any chances of note in the first half .
8 Well that Actually that 's on my disk cos we did have two the the disk partitioned and it 's my half of it that 's got a meg and a half left .
9 To Westminster Abbey , and there did see all the tombs very finely , having one with us alone , there being other company this day to see the tombs , it being Shrove Tuesday .
10 Then they did hold all the cards . ’
11 Mind you , they did have all the satellite and all that did n't we ?
12 Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands .
13 If it did have such a cause of action , then the court would have power to award interest from the moment it arose by virtue of section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 .
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