Example sentences of "he did say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 2 | When he did say ‘ nous voilà ! ’ |
| 3 | He was not prepared to preach to the British — ‘ I do n't really know too much about them ’ — but he did say that no one could expect success without putting in a great deal of hard work . |
| 4 | The former Cabinet minister refused to rule out the possibility in the wake of his scornful accusation that the Prime Minister 's shrewd political instincts had been led astray by the ‘ Irish logic ’ of the Foreign Office , though he did say it was ‘ very unlikely ’ . |
| 5 | I think he did say to me once that he was very disturbed at how much coke David was doing , and it got to the point where he did n't hide it in front of DeFries , whereas he did , for quite a while , at first . |
| 6 | Supposing he did say goodbye to his commission , supposing he was selected , supposing he went off to Russia or Finland or wherever it was without even seeing her . |
| 7 | Like yesterday , when I 'd had my hair cut , he did say it looked a mess before ! |
| 8 | But he did say : ‘ I do n't understand the backlash . |
| 9 | , though he did say he would like another short-stay admission for her as |
| 10 | He did say them jokes — it was an effective way of teaching English idiom and Cottle was never a man to miss an opportunity to use humour constructively . |
| 11 | However , he did say : ‘ We would be willing to help Vinnie any way we can . |
| 12 | He did say that by concentrating on types of labourers , and learning from the studies of life he admired so much in work by Gavarni , Daumier , Dore , De Groux , and Rops , he hoped one day to produce acceptable illustrations for the magazines and newspapers , and bring in a small income . |
| 13 | ‘ Never , though he did say his local picture house was the Pavilion and I know his mother took her loaves to be baked at a place called Jimmy McFadden 's bakery , but they 're not in the phone book , either of them . |
| 14 | Although ringsider Ruddock refused to join the attack on Lewis , he did say : ‘ I took on Mike Tyson not once but twice , I knocked out Mike Dokes , Greg Page and Bonecrusher Smith . |
| 15 | But if he did say it , then he 's a fucking liar . ’ |
| 16 | While he could provide no time scale for this , he did say that he expects the business to grow at 20% per annum . |
| 17 | And although he is adamant that the hardware business will not be run down , he did say that in future the firm will carefully weigh up whether it is more more cost-effective to manufacture products and components itself or buy them on the open market . |
| 18 | While he is not actively developing a third party dealer network because no-one is making money out of simply shifting boxes any more , he did say that systems integrators or value-added resellers have more appeal as people still want computers . |
| 19 | He did say that 30 bids were being reviewed , all from foreign firms or Western-backed joint ventures . |
| 20 | While he would not be drawn on exactly how the higher speed has been achieved , he did say that the system enables users to retain their existing equipment . |
| 21 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 22 | He did say , however , that one of HP 's PA RISC partners would be doing a port . |
| 23 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 24 | Erm but he did say that he 's actually writing a leaflet which they can run to seven or eight pages . |
| 25 | Well what he did say was do n't you know do n't go over the top in criticizing that because |
| 26 | He did say that he disagreed with the choice of John Hill 's ‘ Karen ’ for first prize in the PORTRAIT section , he reckoned that it was quite ordinary and not up to John Hill 's normally high standard , although he said that John Hill 's first and second prizes in the ARCHITECTURAL/BUILDINGS/RECORD were very well deserved and entirely right . |
| 27 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |
| 28 | " No , and I was glad to see him , even though he did say I was gettin' fatter . |
| 29 | Well he did say that the monster was rather large , he looked like a bird |
| 30 | What he did say to the working class is this that the emancipation of working class must be the work of the working class itself . |