Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 2 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 3 | He 'd forgotten that we did have an increase . |
| 4 | However , it is only fair to comment that he did place the lives of two of his most valuable NCOs in jeopardy as well as that of an officer whom he could ill afford to lose . |
| 5 | Yet she found that she did care that Eleanor had used Julius 's Christian name so freely . |
| 6 | Eye-witnesses insist that it did happen and , further , that 80-odd ( or even very odd ) people showed up . |
| 7 | Macdonald 's survey of 1904 claimed that in Edinburgh women were involved in " every process except making up and carrying type " , suggesting that they did lock up formes and do corrections |
| 8 | If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’ |
| 9 | She had never regarded herself as a very organised person , and did n't even consider she had a routine ; but when George retired , realised that she did have a kind of pattern . |
| 10 | Of course it takes time for the increased number of women on the list to work through into actual appointments , but one of the purposes behind the Prime Minister 's initiative was to see that they did work through into actual appointments . |
| 11 | Whatever the outcome , the tendency to rationalize , ie for people to claim that they did achieve what they set out to , is high . |
| 12 | Camille had to agree that it did seem preposterous that anybody they had known should be dead . |
| 13 | However inadequate his predictions proved in the twentieth century , Marx 's appeal remains incomprehensible unless it is recognized that he did have an unsurpassed grasp of nineteenth-century capitalism . |
| 14 | ‘ But the day I wrote this song I honestly believed that I did love everyone ! ’ insists Paul , chirpily . |
| 15 | Well it so happens that I did intend you to do a paramount of talking this afternoon , so it 's quite convenient in a way that we are being recorded . |
| 16 | He added that he did wish , however , to impress upon the Department the importance which the Korean Government and people attached to their apparent exclusion from the defense plans of the United States in the Far East . |
| 17 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 18 | Lynda says that she did think long and hard about changing careers — not least about the fact that as a Stoy 's partner she could soon be drawing a six figure profit share , compared to the substantially lower salary she would get at C&R . |
| 19 | His wife Anne says that he DID drink in Saudi , but would never have committed the more serious offence of running a still and selling its produce . |
| 20 | Yeah , put that we did do that . |
| 21 | After some uncertainty as to whether the Meiji constitution applied to Japan 's colonial possessions , it was decided that it did apply to Korea and Taiwan . |
| 22 | For example , we do not know exactly how God made the world , but that does n't stop us believing that he DID make the world . |
| 23 | It does not appear that she did try . |
| 24 | But during a series of lawsuits against Johns-Manville , Pittsburgh Corning , and other asbestos manufacturers , it was revealed that they did know directly from their own scientific researchers whose implicatory findings were sup-pressed ( Ermann and Lundman 1982 : 68–9 ) . |
| 25 | It seemed that he did want to , for he answered her question far more fully than he need have done . |
| 26 | But if it could be said that he did have a weakness for something , it was for Ireland and the Irish . |
| 27 | Not me , no the drivers and conductors and inspectors , they had a uniform and it was seen that they did wear it . |
| 28 | But yes he confirms that he did ask |
| 29 | But I 'd rather if you did n't mind that you did go in and sort it out cos she said well put a cheque in the envelope with the standing order form but I mean |
| 30 | If a breakdown does occur , we rush to our files to extract the relevant memo which shows that we did tell the boss what was happening — that is , we cover ourselves . |