Example sentences of "he [adv] do [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He 's recovering nicely from his injuries , though he still does walk bent double .
2 He always did say those new-fangled machines were dangerous . ’
3 ‘ He has — ’ Stubbly began to look shifty ; that did n't help ; he always did look shifty — ‘ business interests in the club , that 's all .
4 Right , he probably does think that , but is n't it interesting er does n't this illustrate the point we 've been making that he felt he needed to have a play that , strung that historical cord as it were .
5 Though he nearly did wed three times .
6 As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away .
7 He really did love this land .
8 Even a salad meal was a work of art for Leo , but he really did produce some marvellous meals from that old galley stove .
9 He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home .
10 He never did answer that one .
11 But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked .
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