Example sentences of "[verb] sometimes [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The law did sometimes make an ass of itself , ’ said Sir Nicholas Lyell . |
| 2 | But that was the limit of their comment , except to admit that the large numbers involved did sometimes make it difficult to avoid an appearance of ‘ group justice ’ . |
| 3 | The key textbooks of sociological theories did sometimes conclude with a discussion of treatment implications , but often in the form of an analysis of existing provisions with occasional nods of approval or disapproval . |
| 4 | He was a taciturn man who found it difficult to talk to a boy ; but he did sometimes spare time to tell him of his travels in the wilder parts of Alberta , of encounters with grizzly bears , white water rushing through narrow gorges , being lost in unexpected snowstorms , in an unconquered wilderness totally alien to his suburb-bred son . |
| 5 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 6 | Like many others , it too had its great hall in which the classes did sometimes mingle for such festivities as Mr Lyle 's Christmas celebration . |
| 7 | They did sometimes falter against lesser teams , and in particular had a habit of losing to Crystal Palace in Cup ties , but Northampton were still rank outsiders , especially as their League performances were in the doldrums . |
| 8 | Rory did n't really know Fergus Urvill very well ; although he did sometimes visit Lochgair , he spoke differently — posher — and seemed to spend a lot of his time shooting at birds and animals with other rich people . |
| 9 | He did sometimes break up meetings but that was usually when they were political . |
| 10 | Zuwaya enthusiasts of the revolution did sometimes speak of the injustice of unequal distribution of wealth , but like those who attended the Intellectual Seminar in 1970 , they had difficulty in identifying any particular groups of Libyans who suffered as a group , or who had a common interest in pursuing distributive justice : in Benghazi they said , there were Libyan workers who were oppressed , or perhaps Tripoli . |
| 11 | Compared with the original algorithm , this often produced fast , accurate results , but it did sometimes fail to produce any acceptable result at all . |
| 12 | He did sometimes stay in the storeroom and check the day 's accounts . |
| 13 | Needless to say , these events did n't silence the persistent drumming , though they did sometimes drown it out . |
| 14 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |
| 15 | For a pilot , it is perhaps one of the most agreeable settings in which to ply his profession — even though fog , gales and ice do sometimes demand the limits of his skills . |
| 16 | I do sometimes fancy something a bit more refined . ’ |
| 17 | It was mentioned earlier that trainee advice workers do sometimes observe interviews carried out by experienced advisers . |
| 18 | ‘ People do sometimes manage to leave their offices without anyone noticing . ’ |
| 19 | Some innovative banks and overseas aid departments of OECD governments do sometimes combine finance and aid to provide low-cost financial packages for LDCs ' projects . |
| 20 | However , considerable earthworks do sometimes exist and these are , of course , well worth recording . |
| 21 | Replotting data from the cumulative curve to the frequency curve shows that linear segments do sometimes coincide with recognizable sub-populations but in other cases inflexions where linear segments join also coincide with population peaks . |
| 22 | Companies do sometimes give incorrect details or omit them altogether on their company stationery . |
| 23 | Modern crocodiles do sometimes straighten themselves out when running at speed , thus the movement from shoulder and hips is longer and there is a more effective stride , but it is not their normal posture . |
| 24 | I do sometimes go down to 2½lb , but although I have never been broken on it I never feel as confident as I ought . |
| 25 | Well , it 's like you check the lists , you can quickly , even if you think you remembered it , you can still quickly read through to see whether you 've done all those different things , and you do sometimes forget , so it 's useful for that as well . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , ’ said Helen , ‘ I do know a girl who works in the outer office there , and we do sometimes meet up for lunch and I could try to put her on to it … |
| 27 | When you are at this age and you come up against a brick wall , you do sometimes feel like screaming with frustration . |
| 28 | Journalists do sometimes react against the excesses of newspaper partisanship but even on these occasions it is proprietorial and editorial power that emerges unscathed and victorious . |
| 29 | A : Goodness , how you do sometimes remind me of Bernard ! |
| 30 | However , erm , thinking that er , one day , er , you might marry erm , a prince or princess , Freud says is an , is an illusion , in the sense that er , people do sometimes marry princ princes and princesses , it could happen , it 's not very likely to happen to any particular individual who might have that wish , but it could happen . |