Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps I did diagnose it but I 've forgotten . |
| 2 | It went on so long that finally I did undress and started to give in to the sleep I could feel coming on me . |
| 3 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 4 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 5 | If ever I did meet a man I could love , I should love him ’ — her voice dropped again — ‘ Platonically ’ … |
| 6 | So I had it , and honestly I did enjoy it , and it was n't tough and it was n't you did n't have to chew it ! |
| 7 | I was an insatiable reader , and whenever I did visit Father at one of his shops , I invariably managed to wheedle a couple of batteries out of him — so that I could read in bed under the bedclothes . |
| 8 | Cos well I did say to her why 's to worry about . |
| 9 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 10 | ‘ We have time , and indeed I did mark this lady waiting in your anteroom . |
| 11 | It was an absolute brute but eventually I did manage to dig it all out . |
| 12 | But anyway I did have to do some of them . |
| 13 | But fortunately I did write down |
| 14 | But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the |
| 15 | I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long , but how I did miss it when it absented itself . |
| 16 | We generally assume that stress falls on DO when used for emphasis , as in I did see him . |
| 17 | Though admittedly I did feel a brief uneasiness when I remembered that odd floating movement of Sergia 's . |