Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps I did diagnose it but I 've forgotten . |
| 2 | I did n't forget Nelly who had been a good little friend to me , and eventually we did meet up again , several years later . |
| 3 | But it , it did and , and I think there again a little bit of Guild influence because when er we were at meetings we would say , well what are you going to do about the er drapery you know and eventually we did get this better erm you know , drapery . |
| 4 | Er the work that I 've referred to earlier in terms of the through traffic , was assessed before the southern bypass was open er and so we did put in place er a traffic automatic traffic counters on a number of key routes er to see whether on opening of the southern bypass , the actual effects er where the same as we were modelling cos clearly we were concerned that we did n't want to be er basing our assessments of of of of further relief roads on a false premise . |
| 5 | He was always waiting , very receptive to new ideas and so he did like people and organizations to present their views and he did like to hear discussion . |
| 6 | ‘ And perhaps he did think she would be better off without him ! ’ |
| 7 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 8 | And apparently he did try . |
| 9 | ‘ The door was flung wide and in he did ride |
| 10 | So I had it , and honestly I did enjoy it , and it was n't tough and it was n't you did n't have to chew it ! |
| 11 | I was an insatiable reader , and whenever I did visit Father at one of his shops , I invariably managed to wheedle a couple of batteries out of him — so that I could read in bed under the bedclothes . |
| 12 | And now he did smile , pleased by her recognition ; by her quoting back at him the poem he had read to her only two days past . |
| 13 | And here we did see , by particular favour , the body of Queen Katherine of Valois ; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands , and I did kiss her mouth , reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queene , and this was my birthday , thirty-six years old , that I did kiss a Queene . ’ |
| 14 | I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills . |
| 15 | ‘ There was no traffic for miles , but he looked right and left for about five minutes and then something did come along and he was there for ages . ’ |
| 16 | And then she slopped herself down , got a fag and just about choked me and Auntie Alice out and then she did start to speak . |
| 17 | Yeah , and then she did keep speaking |
| 18 | I just dreamed out of the blue that she had died , and then she did die . |
| 19 | It finished , he tapped his foot , one two three four , and then he did launch into a jig , springy and violent . |
| 20 | Apparently every now and then it did succeed in reaching one of the lower perches , but I never saw it do so and to this day I do n't know how it managed it . |
| 21 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 22 | And indeed we did give them an an undertaking er that that would be done . |
| 23 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 24 | They 've something to hide which is why they wo n't turn up and indeed they did submit , they have submitted er as a mission to the structure plan ; try to get the County Council on their side . |
| 25 | It was still fulfilling its traditional functions of looking after overseas governments and acting as a purchasing agency for them — and indeed it did administer World Bank and British Government overseas development loans . |
| 26 | What am I to do ? ’ wailed the victim , and indeed it did seem a problem , because — since she was so much taller than either of her companions — her feet were larger than theirs , and she could not get into their comfortable country shoes . |
| 27 | ‘ We have time , and indeed I did mark this lady waiting in your anteroom . |
| 28 | Some of the children in our study felt desperately disappointed that they had not been adopted , and yet they did have a home which would continue to be available to them in their adult life and had found a kind of loving , though perhaps not the all-accepting , all-loving parent of their dreams . |
| 29 | In answer to this second argument it can be said that the education available to Desiderius of Cahors in the following century is not likely to have been any better , and yet he did write in the manner of earlier letter-writers . |
| 30 | And yet he did encourage those six-monthly sessions at Chequers when the think-tank would come and brief the full Cabinet , and smaller ones in No. 10 for the junior ministers . |