Example sentences of "[pers pn] did [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though I did hold passionate beliefs , I was a bit young to express them all . |
| 2 | Anyway , all I can say is , I did make some notes somewhere , I think I put them in my pocket , or maybe ( silence ) . |
| 3 | But I did see black guillemots swimming down in the bay , and a gully full of boulders where they probably nest . ’ |
| 4 | I did see some tits in there , yeah . |
| 5 | ‘ I did get some interviews but I would be so paralysed I could n't do myself justice . |
| 6 | I did hear some buyers indicate that the EUROAIM scheme made it easy to avoid , en masse , many troublesome independents , as they were all grouped conveniently together , but I trust this was a minority position ! |
| 7 | I did have two minutes to see A do his ladder climb , and T's climbing feat . |
| 8 | ‘ I did have other priorities . ’ |
| 9 | And then , as the job came up with Social Services , and I joined it , I did have some reservations , because I felt that maybe people would see me as sort of having deserted them and joined them , you know , er brilliant movie ? |
| 10 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 11 | ‘ Because I became a sister so young , I suppose I did have high expectations of myself . |
| 12 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |
| 13 | I did have three commendations over the thirty years — three ten bobs ! |
| 14 | I did notice those remarks , which were widely reported this morning . |
| 15 | You , you did get funny things like that that er that sort of rather lightened things . |
| 16 | Having travelled a reasonable distance into wind ( you did wait three years for a day with a light breeze did n't you ? ) , apply some sideways cyclic to bank the model and start a turn . |
| 17 | We think you did have extra coupons when you got married . |
| 18 | Be that as it may , I perceive in your decision to purchase these shorts — you did purchase these shorts , did n't you ? ’ |
| 19 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 20 | ‘ She did commit these assaults . |
| 21 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
| 22 | She was n't going to give her smiles away — not till she 'd fixed her position , and certainly not to an ugly pock-marked thing like Miss Phoebe with her beaky nose and whiskery chin … though she did have nice eyes . |
| 23 | One rainy morning , she did see some cowboys , though no horses . |
| 24 | Although an unhappy liaison with Rodin consumed much of her attention during the next several years , she did produce many drawings , among them most of her famous cat studies , and at least a dozen paintings . |
| 25 | We did meet three times , and , and , and the , the steps erm , under reductions get er , er , gradually worse for want of a better phrase , in relation to how we 're able to deliver the service . |
| 26 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 27 | We did get some rates from Glasgow did n't we ? |
| 28 | We did have separate supplies in station . |
| 29 | He says we did have several concerns and we suggested some stringent conditions . |
| 30 | But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married . |