Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] i did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps I did diagnose it but I 've forgotten . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We have time , and indeed I did mark this lady waiting in your anteroom . |
| 7 | It was an absolute brute but eventually I did manage to dig it all out . |
| 8 | But anyway I did have to do some of them . |
| 9 | But fortunately I did write down |
| 10 | But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the |
| 11 | I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long , but how I did miss it when it absented itself . |