Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only then did he dare look back over his shoulder . |
| 2 | He did throw out a hint- ’ I stopped . |
| 3 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 4 | But Greg says he did set out to irritate his former boss as he got there first with talks with RHM last May . |
| 5 | Sean was reportedly less chuffed about doing this than doing an ‘ ollie shove-it ’ , a very hard skateboarding manoeuvre — however , he did go on to break his leg in two places soon afterwards when he fell off said contraption . |
| 6 | She was not going to leave until he told her , and at last he did go on , while she listened carefully , to make a picture for herself she could trust . |
| 7 | He did go on . |
| 8 | But he did go up to my mother and say , like , you know . |
| 9 | After all , he did go back to that church , presumably to ask his God for further and better instructions . ’ |
| 10 | He did go back to London ; he did defy the might of Zanuck , but the canny Alex Korda in London stitched up the contract later which , yes , was to give him a million dollars , but also tie him to some terrible films . |
| 11 | Oh , he said , but he did go off and fetch him . |
| 12 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 13 | He did go out a lot . |
| 14 | Yeah but he did go out with a girl there for a while did n't he ? |
| 15 | He did simmer down at times , enough to recognise his tendency to pour oil on the fire , and catch glimpses of himself as a ‘ half-strange , half-tiresome person . ’ |
| 16 | And , of course , if he did stir up trouble he could always be put inside again . |
| 17 | From time to time he did break out , cruising Soho and returning drunk , with or without bedfellow . |
| 18 | At every gig we went to , there was a woman there — that 's what we wanted , we liked to see women hanging around the star attraction of the group because he was good-looking and he did stand out and look good on stage . |
| 19 | Not to his face , you understand , and he did make up for it by giving lavishly to the church … ’ |
| 20 | So I took it out on Phil when he did show up which was natural enough I suppose but probably unhelpful . |
| 21 | Finally , when he did show up willing , there were no more stage coaches . |
| 22 | I would n't put it past Nigel for showing off he did show off and he was trying to , he was trying to be really cool . |
| 23 | The leg-spinner , Ian Salisbury , proved the most expensive , conceding 142 runs from just 29 overs , though he did end up with two wickets including that of Tendulkar . |
| 24 | He did carry out some repairs to the fabric of the Soane Museum . |
| 25 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 26 | But when he came into the picture it had been cast and the script had been done , and he did bring about a lot of changes . |
| 27 | The abolition on stamp duty for house purchases was n't made permanent , as I thought it might be , but inheritance tax was ameliorated and he did bring in transferable tax allowances between spouses . |
| 28 | It was riddled , in his opinion , with old and stupid men , most of whom had been recruited by word of mouth or by membership of a certain club or school society , but to give Menzies his due , he did bring in new blood of a different order . |
| 29 | ‘ As you wish , although you can hardly imagine that Jones would mind if he did find out . |
| 30 | But he did ring up . |