Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives never did mount an efficient and effective campaign . |
| 2 | However , Goody 's claims for the ‘ consequences ’ of literacy are couched in such a way that they do require it : he imposes upon himself the obligation to establish that the Greeks really did achieve the distinction of ‘ myth ’ from ‘ history ’ if his claims for literacy are to be credible . |
| 3 | However , we might question to what extent youth cultures really did represent the struggles , anxieties and aspirations of the parent culture . |
| 4 | Some patients truly did require an asylum from the strains of the world . |
| 5 | Ferngrove Park , with its woods and meadows and deep thickets full of secret nooks and crannies , was a place where the Brownies really did have a grand time . |
| 6 | The malai army doctors really did hold a little surgery for our children . |
| 7 | Exotic substances owed part of their prestige to their mere difference from ones available in the home environment , but even more to the fact that obtaining them from a distance might and in civilized societies normally did reflect the exercise of power . |
| 8 | The popularity of programmes therefore did become a factor in BBC calculations in a qualitatively different way from previously . |