Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 2 | Either he was so upset that he did n't look where he was going , or he really did jump on purpose . ’ |
| 3 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 4 | It was so bad that I actually did consider quitting the acting un less I found an exciting role . |
| 5 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 6 | David was n't very happy about me being so blunt , but I think in a way it made him realise that I was really straightforward and that I really did care . |
| 7 | Although she definitely did suffer from claustrophobia , Sylvia was by no means the worst case I have seen . |
| 8 | Somehow she doubted whether sharing with Sandra the fact that she already did regret the day she 'd first laid eyes on Matthew would be helpful to anyone . |
| 9 | Mother had told Mrs Archer at Baldersdale school that it was tonsillitis and I 'm not sure that she ever did find out the reality of it . |
| 10 | She was pale and willowy , with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see . |
| 11 | Is it true that you really did have a nightmare time in your early life , with all the operations on your foot ? |
| 12 | ‘ So you never did see the bar-tailed lark ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ So you really did change me into a wolf , Mr Bilsiter ? ’ cried Mrs Hampton . |
| 14 | We were soon visual and able to locate the airfield , where once again the radio was not manned , so we never did get a weather report . |
| 15 | This behaviour was unmentionable a few years before , although it probably did take place . |
| 16 | That he never did go there again may be explained by his increasing problems at home , yet successive popes continued to hope in vain . |
| 17 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |
| 18 | I could never quite believe that he really did intend to rob me . ’ |
| 19 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |
| 20 | The sincere ring in his voice filled Lucy with gratification , causing her to believe that he really did appreciate her efforts — on behalf of the business , of course . |
| 21 | ‘ Not to me , ’ Robyn murmured , hardly daring to hope that his lighter mood might have something to do with the fact that he really did like her work . |
| 22 | But , surely , for him to say that if she did n't want to be seduced , she 'd better keep her distance had to mean that he really did desire her — did n't it ? |
| 23 | ‘ With the result that he really did keep away , ’ Lucy had pointed out . |
| 24 | He had n't even had good manners enough to protest that he certainly did like her singing , as anyone else would surely have done , given such a direct challenge . |
| 25 | he 's survived all the er heart condition that he ever did have |
| 26 | Since ownership passed to the legatee without performance having taken place , it was much harder to see that he actually did do with the legacy what the testator had intended . |
| 27 | Sharpening the blades of an eighteen-inch cylinder is a four-hour job , so he really did need my help . |
| 28 | Well , they did during the Underground strikes , and I honestly did know a young brat-race type who went to work in the West End on a unicycle . |
| 29 | I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache . |
| 30 | And I never did have . |