Example sentences of "be [that] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that he did feel something other than sexual desire for her ? |
| 2 | ‘ But the positive thing is that we did win our last home game and it was a big one . |
| 3 | S so then the evidence is that they did know each other , begging what know exactly entails , but that 's not in dispute . |
| 4 | For certain it is that she did leave your enclave with my men , and with them took the road to Ramsey . |
| 5 | Another reason for suspecting the masked lady was Ada is that she did seem to disappear , from at least public view , about that time . |
| 6 | The other thing perhaps I could just say , chairman , is that I did meet a representative of the district auditor last week to bring you up to date on the work which the education committee was doing . |
| 7 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 8 | Kemp had reported to the group that he would be arriving in Oxford at 3 p.m. — and the simple truth is that he did arrive in Oxford at 3 p.m . |
| 9 | But what he strenuously de nies inventing is that he DID serve Mr Lamont in Praed Street , Paddington , west London , on Monday , November 16 . |
| 10 | Erm was that we did elect , I recall , a local publicity group , one representative from each union did n't we ? |
| 11 | Then suddenly , while aware she had told him that she did not love Travis , she realised that here was her chance of clouding the issue of who it was that she did love . |
| 12 | She saw then that saying this had been unpardonable , but the odd thing was that he did pardon her , and laughed , and quietly fished some of the soggy pills out of the sink in case he fancied one later after all . |
| 13 | The Board 's general counsel , Michael Friend , said afterwards : ‘ The finding was that he did change his scorecard at the qualifying round for the European Tour School last October , but the Board felt the sentence of 10 years was too severe given that it was a first offence . ’ |
| 14 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |