Example sentences of "[adv] did [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mike finally did collapse after two dreadful weeks , it was clear that we either had to give up , or drastically change our approach . |
| 2 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 3 | A report circulated in the spring of 1939 admitted that the camps ‘ became slave markets where people with the best intentions in the world went to help one child , yet unconsciously did harm to many by looking them over and rejecting them ’ . |
| 4 | Do you know sweetheart I have often wondered since I knew about things whether a brother or sister ever did love with such a love as ours . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I do n't think he ever did score with that one . |
| 6 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 7 | ‘ So this is how you spend all the money I 've lent you , ’ I said , and do you know what — he really did blush at that . |
| 8 | But , let's notice that , first of all , the Lord really did speak to this woman ! |
| 9 | Well I had a hysterectomy when I was forty nine and to me life really did begin at fifty ! |
| 10 | And he , Neil Cochrane , really did know about such Birds of Paradise , for had he not been loved and betrayed by one , and learned his bitter lesson — never to love or trust a woman again ? |
| 11 | The serfs had swallowed the slaves , a process made hopelessly obscure by the fact that the same word , servus , often did service for both . |
| 12 | Last year 's was no la it ca n't be the same one then cos last year 's was absolutely terrible , the one I went to with Right Said Fred was amazing I think someone else did go to that , Sue-Anna or somebody ? |
| 13 | Erm I , I never did agree with that very much really . |
| 14 | As the century progressed and belief in eternal damnation began to lose its hold , so too did fear for unbaptised children . |
| 15 | It 's possible that trade with China in the Middle Ages and later may have caused the genes of the two types to mix somewhat , but they definitely did mix in another way . |
| 16 | Clearly , for those who found they actually did suffer from smelly clothes — evidently a lot of people — the ads struck an immediate and powerful chord . |
| 17 | No one any longer seriously believes that Marie and Eleanor actually did preside over such tribunals . |