Example sentences of "did [vb infin] wrong " in BNC.

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1 If something did go wrong , if tempers flared and violence broke out , they could be hard put to control it . ’
2 Dave added : ‘ Everything that could go wrong did go wrong .
3 If things did go wrong , especially during recording , it was counted major disaster , increasing proportionately in scale the nearer to 10.00 pm the clock ticked .
4 " Well , something did go wrong — the behaviour of the tide . "
5 And d had they shown you like were you sort of trained if anything did go wrong , you would have fixed it yourselves ?
6 But in nineteen seventy nine things did go wrong .
7 We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery .
8 I know that , I mean , er , we what Paul said , is basically that , we could have problems , if it , if it did go wrong .
9 Things did go wrong … she 'd trusted in the powers of justice and compassion before , and she 'd lost her mother … she 'd trusted Mortimer with her friendship and he 'd betrayed her … trusted Guy with the whole of her heart and soul last night and all the time he 'd been laughing behind her back at the ‘ sexy redhead ’ from Chesters …
10 Our safety regulations er dictate that they be a certain distance from the crowd , so that if anything did go wrong , the aircraft would be able to er get out of the way , but no , there is not going to be any danger at all , they 'll make their approaches to the base as if they were attacking , and then we 'll have simulated ground bursts , a large fire as it were , on the ground , it will be going off , providing the sound effects for it , but it 's going to be just a great thing to sit and watch .
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