Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she found that she did care that Eleanor had used Julius 's Christian name so freely . |
| 2 | If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’ |
| 3 | She had never regarded herself as a very organised person , and did n't even consider she had a routine ; but when George retired , realised that she did have a kind of pattern . |
| 4 | ‘ But the day I wrote this song I honestly believed that I did love everyone ! ’ insists Paul , chirpily . |
| 5 | He added that he did wish , however , to impress upon the Department the importance which the Korean Government and people attached to their apparent exclusion from the defense plans of the United States in the Far East . |
| 6 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 7 | It seemed that he did want to , for he answered her question far more fully than he need have done . |
| 8 | Mr Jones said : ‘ He did make reference to the letter in the speech that he made and he did make positive noises but whether they will translate into positive actions we 'll have to wait and see . ’ |
| 9 | In answer to a prosecution question , he stated that he did hear indistinct gunfire , but had thought no more of it . |
| 10 | In a telephone call after I read Kay 's article Medicare in Baltimore confirmed that it does cover such treatment in full . |
| 11 | Zakrewski confirmed that he did expect the legislation to hurt its Polish acquisition , DHI , which currently expects to turn over $15m in the market this year , and added ‘ The result will be that there will be some preferred companies who have been doing assembly that will be supported , and they will grow and make a huge amount of money by reselling imports , not by assembling ; it 's a scandal . |
| 12 | He confirmed that he did think it would be for the best if I dropped out of family life , and in my heart , I knew he was right . |
| 13 | He replied that it did seem strange to him too , but that at every stage God — as far as they could discern — had opened the way to do this . |
| 14 | Alright , and then there 's this extraordinary bit erm , that George has in the middle of page thirty , about what happened when he did run the history department for four years during the War . |
| 15 | What , I had in mind is to get us to a point where if we decided that we do want to recruit somebody we can do that within er er a much shorter time scale than than our |
| 16 | I pumped one through today on something lost and it does give you an immediate link to , a written link . |
| 17 | Then he subsequently moved one person from the ground floor onto the first floor , which meant that he did require a fire certificate . |
| 18 | And I felt that they did need some kind of ongoing support . |
| 19 | He loved Stanley , and thought that he dared do things he would n't dare do himself . ’ |
| 20 | And he thought that it did square , that there was a common root , a matrix of beliefs . |
| 21 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 22 | Vincent retorted that he did wish to be better than he was , and feared stagnation , but was ‘ even more afraid of remedies that are worse than the evil itself . ’ |
| 23 | I joining the company something like that and if they did when you do join a department that does it you have a great sense of belonging , because some of the things you 'll do for the training will be allocated to other members round a team , yeah , all this sort of stuff and it becomes very easy , takes a monkey off your back as it were , you do n't have to worry . |
| 24 | When he left that he did wonder if anyone would cast him in a straight play but was fortunate enough to get Billy Liar . |
| 25 | One survivor , as I have already noted , said that she did mind , mainly because she missed the company , but that her husband would not hear of her carrying on . |
| 26 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 27 | Keith and I had got engaged four months before and we said if I did get pregnant we would get married but we never did . |
| 28 | I said but you do appreciate there are some dead sectors in the timetable that would n't w that even the greatest salesmen in the world could n't sell because they 're precisioning sectors . |
| 29 | So he said whether she do have somebody else , I do n't know ! |
| 30 | one of things you said earlier on you said when you do become very radical erm it 's , the distinctions between become blurred |