Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] we did [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 . ’
5 I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills .
6 And indeed we did give them an an undertaking er that that would be done .
7 Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours .
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