Example sentences of "[pron] did [vb infin] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Izzie 's right : I did bring you all your trouble . |
| 2 | My wife began , I know not whether by design or chance , to enquire what she should do , if I should by any accident die , to which I did give her some slight answer , but shall make good use of it to bring myself to some settlement for her sake , by making a will as soon as I can . ‘ |
| 3 | I did visit it that day . |
| 4 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I can see you 're very upset , but I did ask you this morning — remember ? |
| 6 | now I did ask you this before and still puzzling me , where , where does this fit in to article eighty five ? |
| 7 | Yes , maybe I did have them all , or a good number of them anyway . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , you did tell me that . |
| 9 | Oh you did tell me that . |
| 10 | Then she insisted , ‘ It was a very kind thing you did … even if you did risk us all getting hung ! ’ |
| 11 | That 's right you did ask me that |
| 12 | she did show me that and then she 's got it like straps on it where she can take it off but er oh she |
| 13 | She did tell me some things in her letters , but not enough . |
| 14 | She did have it all bandaged up , she were she were cleaning toilet at bottom , and er , apparently there was a piece out of it and she did n't know , and she wiped round it , it sliced it , and it were bleeding like mad , well she came across to our 'ouse , and we were n't in , and then she went to Kevin 's and she had she had it , but it , now it 's just like a line now , |
| 15 | ‘ We did give him this massive bouquet , though , ’ said Debi . |
| 16 | We did offer him some ice cream but he said no thank you . |
| 17 | You see , we did get it all completely repaired when we moved in , cos it was in a hell of a state from Peter ! |
| 18 | Yes they did tell me that your Lordship . |
| 19 | But they did get her another chair , and put it in the old chair 's place . |
| 20 | Er now did we get John back or we 've forgotten John now because he 's in a shop serving customers in Ripon and er great take away Indian there very very good take away Indian and they did ask me this would you please play this so hang on . |
| 21 | ‘ He did tell me that . ’ |
| 22 | He did tell me some other things about himself . |
| 23 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 24 | However , the goal posts having been established , it did make it all much easier . |