Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But did she dare impersonate a journalist ? |
| 2 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 3 | While England sent no revivalist as famous as Moody she did send a number of famous ministers and the works of her most famous preachers were avidly bought and consumed in America . |
| 4 | She did her best to try and in to make things a little bit more er interesting and she did start a tennis club up , which was nice because there was nothing at all before then . |
| 5 | Morag French , 27 , is more optimistic about a job , although she did experience a few brief spells of unemployment before entering the hostel a year and a half ago . |
| 6 | She did cry a little , almost soundlessly , and was furious with herself for doing so , her tears mingling with the spray of the shower . |
| 7 | But her ear plugs were not impregnable and — the music having stopped at last — she did hear a tap on the door . |
| 8 | But she did ask a question , she was the first question that was asked , the one about erm |
| 9 | This time she did get a response . |
| 10 | She did get a few out of one bag and a few out of another . |
| 11 | No , she did not own a car — could not afford to — but she did have a driving licence . |
| 12 | Despite her irritating affectations , she did have a genuine flair for divining quality in both literature and the visual arts . |
| 13 | However , there is one other thing that we know about Elsie for sure : she did have a club foot . |
| 14 | The publication of de Beauvoir 's letters to Sartre has revealed that , contrary to her repeated denials , she did have a number of sexual relationships with women . |
| 15 | For example , you could discover whether the employee 's watch was faulty , or whether she did have a regular hair appointment on Friday . |
| 16 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 17 | She had never regarded herself as a very organised person , and did n't even consider she had a routine ; but when George retired , realised that she did have a kind of pattern . |
| 18 | I could see he thought it was serious , that she did have a case . |
| 19 | Bunny says she 's quite an asset , even if she did have a disturbed schooling . ’ |
| 20 | Ma is thin and she 's not all that strong , but she did have a go , persevering even after it mowed down most of her prize herb bed . |
| 21 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 22 | It was true : she did have a reputation for good housekeeping . |
| 23 | She did have a crush on Dr Russell , of course . |
| 24 | Fen was right — she did have a temper to match her hair . |
| 25 | Because she did have a hard life . |
| 26 | And she did have a responsibility to her students . |
| 27 | She did have a mother . |
| 28 | She did have a thousand and one things to do , though there was n't a single one of them that could n't have waited . |
| 29 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 30 | But , yeah , she did have a choice but I mean sh you do with people with money . |