Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was much younger I did take chances from time to time and can recall more than one close shave . |
| 2 | Even those who did take legal action received little advantage from it . |
| 3 | For example , even those who did live near their kin did not see them especially often . |
| 4 | She wondered just how awful she did look . |
| 5 | She still did not want a baby , but she knew how much she did want and need her husband . |
| 6 | It might help if he realized how much you did love her . ’ |
| 7 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 8 | Erm I say I do n't know how many he did have . |
| 9 | I wonder how many she did have ? " |
| 10 | Right now he had no idea what would become of him , yet this much he did know — there was a sense of peace in his heart at last , and the bitter core of hatred had melted with his tears . |
| 11 | But God had made bloody sure he did see it — and He had safely left the rest to the inevitable reflex of challenge-acceptance . |