Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did confess to one problem — when the washing goes out , the sundial has to be moved . |
| 2 | ‘ He did complain at one point , actual fact . |
| 3 | His wife Anne says that he DID drink in Saudi , but would never have committed the more serious offence of running a still and selling its produce . |
| 4 | Where he did intervene in public , it was generally to lend support to ‘ legal ’ discriminatory measures — for the most part popular and meeting with widespread approval — excluding Jews from German society and the economy . |
| 5 | But when he did speak at last , his words were a chilling disappointment . |
| 6 | He had n't done so since 1987 , but he did get within three shots of Levi on the back nine . |
| 7 | It appears that he did search for 3-dimensional examples but could find none without divisors of zero . |
| 8 | Mattie Barkess said : ‘ He did act with considerable sympathy towards his victim . ’ |
| 9 | He did believe in that . |
| 10 | No paintings are known , but he did commission from another artist a series of three substantial history pictures in which his family appeared as witnesses to religious scenes . |
| 11 | But he did inveigh against those Protestant nobles who placated the regent by going to mass , and he preached , mainly in the Protestant strongholds of Angus and Ayrshire . |
| 12 | The defendant had some reason for wishing to weigh the boilers ; and he could do so only by obtaining permission from the plaintiff , which he did obtain by promising to return them in good condition . |
| 13 | But then again , he did look like that photo , I think he does look like that photo , but you were younger then , |
| 14 | ‘ He did write to that American professor that Boz ‘ disappears and presently emerges from a bathing machine , and may be seen — a kind of salmon-coloured porpoise splashing about in the ocean ’ . ’ |
| 15 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 16 | All he did know at this moment was that it seemed a shame a girl such as Maggie here , with brains , because she was no fool , and a talent such as she had , should be encased in a body that held no appeal . |