Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] did [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 2 | ‘ I never did hold much of a brief for your father , but it seems as if your mother was n't much better ! ’ he said , his voice making clear how lacking in sympathy he found her family . |
| 3 | I never did have any ambitions really — I never did want to do anything . |
| 4 | I never did like those open topped buses . |
| 5 | I never did know much about Shakespeare . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I never did trust that new Mayor Mutton nor none of his creatures neither , ’ said she . |
| 7 | I never did lose any at all , but a couple did go missing one day and there was hell to pay . |
| 8 | She probably did remember that incident on the beach . |
| 9 | There was no attempt to glamorise her visually but by words and performance she really did become that desirable lady , one who would indeed swim naked with a Greek boatman . |
| 10 | ‘ After our night together , when Peter turned up next day , you were so savage , as if you really did believe all those terrible things you were saying about me — I do n't understand why you changed so suddenly — ’ |
| 11 | by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us |
| 12 | ‘ We 've never closed a store , but if we ever did close that one , we would be happy to restore the land for industrial use . ’ |
| 13 | My goodness , we certainly did have some outstandingly good preachers around these parts , particularly before the war . |
| 14 | ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ? |
| 15 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 16 | We never did establish that for the simple reason we were in a terrible quandary ourselves wondering which version was the right one . |
| 17 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 18 | He always did say those new-fangled machines were dangerous . ’ |
| 19 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 20 | He really did love this land . |
| 21 | Even a salad meal was a work of art for Leo , but he really did produce some marvellous meals from that old galley stove . |
| 22 | He never did answer that one . |
| 23 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |