Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] he [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To risk his job — and Sir Daniel had made it very clear that he did risk it — was a courageous thing to do when you considered how few editors ' chairs there were on the Street . |
| 2 | Obviously , one can not accept anything that Philby says since he would have a vested interest in causing mischief amongst the British security services , but it is interesting that he did volunteer the suggestion that MI6 was involved . |
| 3 | At every gig we went to , there was a woman there — that 's what we wanted , we liked to see women hanging around the star attraction of the group because he was good-looking and he did stand out and look good on stage . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's being very brave but he did adore her , you know . ’ |
| 5 | He was soft and more used than he dared admit to indolence and good food . |
| 6 | ‘ Now , it 's perfectly possible that he did discover Nicola was having an affair a couple of weeks ago but only threw out the photos last night . |
| 7 | It is possible that he did kill , but having killed , took thought to cover what he had done . |
| 8 | And Otis is relieved that he did take out the extra cover , because , in September in 1989 , just five months after he bought the car , he had an accident . |
| 9 | Unlike Spurgeon , Parker was a keen and fairly radical Liberal although he did support the Boer War . |
| 10 | It is true that it would not prevent the mortgagee taking possession , though it made his position in some degree uncomfortable if he did take possession . |
| 11 | ‘ Suppose Dora 's right and he did kill Gebrec ? |
| 12 | retarded lad that invented all these strange and he did bank robberies with a remote control car . |
| 13 | I am glad that he did answer it , as I wanted to ask him this : has he learnt any lessons from the report , particularly those related to ability streaming ? |
| 14 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 15 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 16 | The whole poem , at this stage as was pointed out in the section on Wordsworth 's creed uses language ambiguously , though it must be obvious that he does believe in ‘ something out there ’ . |
| 17 | Nice to see Bruce get injured although he did seem to recover . |
| 18 | That 's what you call a grounding , and it 's what makes him confident if he does get to meet Big Ron at Villa Park next season . |
| 19 | I mean , one scapegoat is enough as long as he does hit bit . ’ |
| 20 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
| 21 | On no account should he be allowed simply to get in his car and drive around before he has been pronounced competent to drive , and has organized his driving licence and insurance accordingly , if for no other reason than that his insurance would be invalid if he did have an accident . |
| 22 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 23 | Denis hung back , unsure whether he dared emulate his superior . |
| 24 | I ca n't keep my cool and he does rattle me ! ’ |
| 25 | He was looking at his food , or at Mamma , or Papa , when he was listening- and he does listen now , does n't he , like a proper grown-up man , making conversation . ’ |
| 26 | His expression was grim as he let go of her arm . |
| 27 | For a man who started life as a ‘ Scythian shepherd ’ , he is incredibly intelligent and he does speak as if he were a prince . |
| 28 | Perhaps a little too active but he did achieve his goal ! |
| 29 | The counsellor feared that would be the last she heard from him so she was pleasantly surprised when he did come the following week , bearing a letter from Susie in Denmark . |