Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferrari aside , he did love European sports cars . |
| 2 | He did feel faint . |
| 3 | Caused by a dispute with the film 's producers over money , it 's sorted out now , but Broderick confesses that he did feel angry . |
| 4 | When he did feel able to write to Coenwulf he reminded him of his humble origins ( but avoided reference to his matrimonial difficulties ) and exhorted him to remember always the very best features of Offa 's reign , avoiding Offa 's displays of greed and cruelty . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | He also spoke of the motivation and enjoyment he had derived from Young Enterprise and the confidence he had gained from this knowledge that he did possess significant , relevant abilities school just had not teased them out before . |
| 7 | He did appear flushed and his eyes held a strange glitter . |
| 8 | He did advocate penal servitude as a punishment for certain offences , but this was not to be served in prison . ) |
| 9 | None the less , he did con firm that there was a place for the sociology of knowledge — provided it lost its ‘ epistemological impedimentia ’ ( Merton 1957 : 508 ) . |
| 10 | Acton was certainly a minority spokesman and was challenged even by contemporaries in his attitude to female sexuality , but he did express pervasive anxieties . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One thing did upset him , and that was innovation ; if the Vicar discovered anything new , on either the theological or the social horizon , he grew hot it was the only time he did get hot . |
| 13 | Okay , he did get nervous around the par-4 17th , which he bogeyed after flying the green , but then again he likes to be nervous . |
| 14 | Anyway , what if he did get suspicious ? |
| 15 | As a result , the Whig MP John Hervey had to work extremely hard to cultivate the corporation , and although he did use various financial incentives , he found that the best way to keep their support was by serving their interests both locally and in Parliament . |
| 16 | In answer to a prosecution question , he stated that he did hear indistinct gunfire , but had thought no more of it . |
| 17 | She noticed belligerently that he did add ginger ale to the brandy . |
| 18 | He did have good words to say for its menfolk ; ‘ … sturdy and bold , honest and sagacious ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But he did have fancy thoughts sometimes , nor were they always wrong . |
| 21 | ‘ He did have talking eyes . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Where he did have strong personal views , he proved less willing or less able to implement them over the opposition of others . |
| 25 | He did have white mice . |
| 26 | Robert Leeson ( 22nd January ) may be right in suggesting that Just William might not have wanted to be a Tory minister , but he did have parliamentary ambitions . |
| 27 | He did have red hair and he had certainly been interested in the whole area down by the river walk . |
| 28 | Lord Home belied his reputation for laziness — the commonly-held view of the elder statesman , as the British prototype for Ronald Reagan , did n't hold water : up and working at 6.30 every morning , even if he did spend uncommon amounts of time in trout streams . |
| 29 | He did look impressive when he played for England … |
| 30 | and he did n't stay long and he did n't , he , he did look terrible , he did really |