Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frau Nordern agreed , although not without adding a rider of her own : ‘ I always did think that Bodo was being alarmist . ’ |
| 2 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 3 | I really did find that we sunk to the pits when we started circulating recipes for cheesecake on er poll tax er payers money , that is absolutely ludicrous and we should n't be spending money on that . |
| 4 | I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache . |
| 5 | I never did believe that , as the coroner seemed to think , because of one of her mental lapses Grandma had gone out into the garden in her nightie and just fallen into the stream by mistake . |
| 6 | ‘ You always did say that her fairies were the lightest you ever tasted . ’ |
| 7 | In the end the student asked the lady if she really did mean that her grocer was a counter-service shop and the old lady replied , ‘ Oh yes , it 's counter-service all right . |
| 8 | We never did see that organ grinder again and I felt sorry about what had happened . |
| 9 | After the ceremony they really did discover that the minister had married the bride to the best man ! |
| 10 | They never did sell that did they ? |
| 11 | So he he probably did realize that he was he was the last resort , but I do n't think he was the he was the type to actually think that out you know . |
| 12 | He really did believe that money was all she cared about ! |
| 13 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |