Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't want to go around looking for candidates like we did last time . |
| 2 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 3 | It 's got about six bedrooms well it did have , not about |
| 4 | A few days later I did question Shadwell about the possibility of not being covered in shit for my debut as a professional actor . |
| 5 | About two days later she did die , without having been ill or , I understand , having shown any sign of failing . |
| 6 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 7 | Their enterprise began as a wholefood store — ‘ we had very little stock but all those years ago we did manage to get organic Basmati rice ’ — with a little tearoom at the back and a Malaysian feast once a week . |