Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did believe in that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But then again , he did look like that photo , I think he does look like that photo , but you were younger then , |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ’ . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |