Example sentences of "he do [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferrari aside , he did love European sports cars . |
| 2 | I really believed he did love this suede . |
| 3 | He did make one slip , of course — referring to Kemijärvi . |
| 4 | Unlike the Mantuan and Ferrarese madrigalists , Marenzio composed mainly for the pleasure of the performers themselves , not for courtly audiences listening to brilliant executants , though he did make some essays in the three-upper-part style associated with the Ferrarese ladies , notably the exquisite ‘ Hor chi Clori ’ in his Sixth five-part book ( 1594 ) , and he must have reckoned on good performers to tackle the chromaticisms of ‘ O voi che sospirate ’ ( Book II , 1581 ) . |
| 5 | In the event , he did make some contribution to Toby and Laura 's education . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Last night she trotted to bed , and he did sleep all night long , but he did n't go till half past ten cos Marie do n't put him to bed . |
| 8 | And yet — I am too hasty , too defensive — Yes , he did identify that mirage , or illusions , delusions very close in configuration to it . |
| 9 | ‘ Afraid that he would do something … well , something like he did do last week . ’ |
| 10 | Although most of Hudson 's tests were conducted on schoolboys , he did conduct some tests on schoolgirls , amongst whom he found a different pattern : |
| 11 | He did advocate penal servitude as a punishment for certain offences , but this was not to be served in prison . ) |
| 12 | If he did eat any food he would either chew very slowly or just hold it in his mouth . |
| 13 | Acton was certainly a minority spokesman and was challenged even by contemporaries in his attitude to female sexuality , but he did express pervasive anxieties . |
| 14 | Two of them , Zouher Kabbara and his cousin Nadim Kabbara , had unfortunately been arrested in Rome about a month before Coleman arrived on Cyprus , but he did meet Sami Jafaar , a short , stocky , fast-talking Shiite drug runner with a hairy chest festooned with gold chains and medallions . |
| 15 | But he did reconsider next day , when he saw her watching the passage of the porter from the refectory before noon , and following him with her eyes as he turned in between infirmary and schoolroom , where the two small stony cells were built into the angle of the wall , close to the wicket that led through to the mill and the pond . |
| 16 | In answer to a prosecution question , he stated that he did hear indistinct gunfire , but had thought no more of it . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 18 | However , he did win four CCs and six Reserve CCs and was to gain a Best of Breed placement at Crufts in 1980 . |
| 19 | But , but , he did win four tournaments , he did finish second to Norman on the money list , and he did end his season with a startlingly brilliant final round , an 8-under par 63 at the Champions course in Houston to give him third place in the rich Nabisco Championships . |
| 20 | However , he did consider this event important enough to send a report to an Australian station on Lord Howe Island . |
| 21 | She noticed belligerently that he did add ginger ale to the brandy . |
| 22 | The risks of antagonising China , if he did support such initiatives , were apparently highlighted by the Chinese side 's emphasis on " political issues " at high-level Sino-British talks on July 3-6 on Hong Kong 's disputed new airport project [ see p. 38340 ] . |
| 23 | He did have good words to say for its menfolk ; ‘ … sturdy and bold , honest and sagacious ’ . |
| 24 | However that may be , Cnut 's considerable generosity to Canterbury implies that he did have good relations with Æthelnoth , and this possibly made him the more determined to control the selection of his successor . |
| 25 | But he did have fancy thoughts sometimes , nor were they always wrong . |
| 26 | ‘ He did have talking eyes . ’ |
| 27 | General Mola was inferior in rank and had less prestige among the military , but he did have two factors in his favour : he was the director of the conspiracy and he was in command of all the rebel troops in the northern half of the country , thus " mirroring " Franco 's command in the south . |
| 28 | Although there was no other region which he dominated for the king , he did have other land which allowed him to exercise lordship on a more modest scale . |
| 29 | Although there was no other region which he dominated for the king , he did have other land which allowed him to exercise lordship on a more modest scale . |
| 30 | And , by the way , he did have this job in Italy , but if it was in the slightest degree inconvenient to join them in the villa , he 'd book into a cheap little pensione by the railway station in Siena . |