Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where schools patently did need greater assistance , Leslie Ryder reasoned , was in the production of materials , in the planning of course units making use of resources , and in the use and operation of audio-visual and reprographic equipment . |
| 2 | by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us |
| 3 | Denzil always did like bright colours . |
| 4 | ‘ By the Lord , Jimmie , you always did have rose-edged ambitions , but like sunsets they fade . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You always did have strange ideas . ’ |
| 6 | Though he nearly did wed three times . |
| 7 | She probably did remember that incident on the beach . |
| 8 | Of course , this a justified objection ; and I am ready to concede that in most historical examples one might like to point out things probably did happen that way round . |
| 9 | He really did love this land . |
| 10 | The sharpest clash occurred in the village of Bezdna in the eastern province of Kazan " , where a certain Anton Petrov began claiming that the statutes really did grant wholesale freedom . |
| 11 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 12 | The ‘ false dawn of courtesy ’ was over and the pupils really did accept each other . |
| 13 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 14 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |
| 15 | The one redeeming feature was that Groups initially did select good crews , many of them second-tour types . |
| 16 | The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women . |
| 17 | On the other hand , given the state of confusion in France and the fact that Thorez himself was in Moscow , it was not clear that the communist hierarchy was in a position to control communist maquisards , many of whom undoubtedly did have revolutionary aspirations . |
| 18 | Women did not eat as many sausages , pies , or fish and chips than men , yet did have more fruit and recommended reduced fat milk . |
| 19 | ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ? |
| 20 | Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved . |
| 21 | I never did have any ambitions really — I never did want to do anything . |
| 22 | ‘ On my soul , ’ sighed Thomas , injured but patient , ‘ 1 never did see any fellow could find all the devil 's arguments like you . |
| 23 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |
| 24 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 25 | Never did like that group … |
| 26 | In some cases , autonomous groups certainly did achieve higher levels of shop-floor control , but were not widely popular with management , presumably for that reason . |
| 27 | The Vikings certainly did cause extensive damage to property in the short term . |
| 28 | However , it must be emphasised that all the women who chose not to register for work actually did want paid employment and took up any employment opportunities which arose ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 29 | He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home . |
| 30 | But Brian actually did interview one person , for forty-five minutes ? |