Example sentences of "did [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ramsey Everett was never quite one of them , it seems , never quite convinced that the world did owe them all a living . |
| 32 | Tim Rodber had a much better game that at Murrayfield and won his share of the ball at the tail of the line-outs , but it remained an area where Ireland did hold their own through the excellent play of Neil Francis and Brian Robinson . |
| 33 | ‘ He did tell me that . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ Yes , you did tell me that . |
| 35 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 36 | Yes they did tell me that your Lordship . |
| 37 | Oh you did tell me that . |
| 38 | She did tell me some things in her letters , but not enough . |
| 39 | He did tell me some other things about himself . |
| 40 | No , but Mr did , did tell him this morning . |
| 41 | In 1911 Liberal backbenchers did establish their own unofficial committee . |
| 42 | And ABC 's Martin Fry — who did write his own music — was no less subversive than McLaren in accounting for his own authority . |
| 43 | But they did get her another chair , and put it in the old chair 's place . |
| 44 | did get it all wrong and |
| 45 | You see , we did get it all completely repaired when we moved in , cos it was in a hell of a state from Peter ! |
| 46 | We did offer him some ice cream but he said no thank you . |
| 47 | I did visit it that day . |
| 48 | On the positive side some of your comments did reflect my own findings . |
| 49 | That 's right you did ask me that |
| 50 | Er now did we get John back or we 've forgotten John now because he 's in a shop serving customers in Ripon and er great take away Indian there very very good take away Indian and they did ask me this would you please play this so hang on . |
| 51 | ‘ I can see you 're very upset , but I did ask you this morning — remember ? |
| 52 | now I did ask you this before and still puzzling me , where , where does this fit in to article eighty five ? |
| 53 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 54 | Yet despite these medical tergiversations there is considerable evidence that women did find their own means of resistance . |
| 55 | ‘ In fact it did find its own way down , ’ concedes Mr Featherstone , ‘ though how , I can but wonder . ’ |