Example sentences of "do indeed " in BNC.
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| 1 | What will I do indeed , she thought ? |
| 2 | Everything had to be very , very carefully done indeed . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , well done indeed ! ’ echoed Dieter , ostentatiously clapping his hands . |
| 4 | ‘ I did indeed . |
| 5 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 6 | In the 1970s his language did indeed seem a little old-fashioned . |
| 7 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 8 | After the Guardian pointed out on December 8 that Kingfisher did indeed face a prima facie competition problem , he told another newspaper that during his 1986 bid for the then Woolworths , he had been obliged by the OFT to pre-sell Comet to Granada to avoid a monopolies investigation . |
| 9 | In the 1980s free-flowing , borderless markets did indeed make borrowing and capital-raising appear easier . |
| 10 | Gina did indeed start giving lessons of a kind . |
| 11 | I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul . |
| 12 | X-ray fluorescence ( XRE ) analysis ( see glossary ) of solders used on Roman silver suggests that the Roman silversmith did indeed use several different solders which could have given him a working temperature range from the melting point of silver ( 960°C ) , down to 180°C . |
| 13 | One of the children , the little boy , did indeed follow his mother ten years later at the age of fourteen . |
| 14 | Lord ‘ Bertie ’ Denham , the bluff and genial Chief Whip who floated between the Lords , White 's and Pratt 's proffering a glass of whisky to any peer tempted to vote against a government bill , likes to maintain that there is no inbuilt Conservative majority in the Lords , and during the first two Thatcher terms the government did indeed lose 111 votes . |
| 15 | And on the next day the Zuwaya did indeed muster a majority of 117 votes in the first count . |
| 16 | First , he began , and said that Qaddafi did indeed have faults : that was inescapable , all men have faults ; but it was wrong to believe that everything Sadat said about him because Sadat too had faults , and he also had a purpose in saying what he said . |
| 17 | In my ignorance , I had never heard of this extraordinary saga , and I did indeed spend some absorbing time in the church learning something about it . |
| 18 | The market did indeed peak at 150.6 points up at one point . ) |
| 19 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |
| 20 | Another approach has been to consider how a monster or family of monsters , if they did indeed exist in the loch , might be able to survive in a freshwater environment . |
| 21 | As Lord Malmesbury had prophesied , it did become ‘ a magnificent court ’ which did indeed ‘ command the attention of all Europe ’ . |
| 22 | Yes , Jewish doctors did indeed care for the Arab villagers then , although Mrs Zamzam had mispronounced the names . |
| 23 | It is certainly not the case that this can be discerned in the work of all the nouveaux romanciers at the same time ; however , that such a development did indeed take place suggests that a new poetics was being tacitly formulated . |
| 24 | Stations like those at Atbara , Port Sudan , and El Obeid did indeed have the look of an English country or Scottish Highland station , with the building on an island platform , adorned with travel posters and fine lamps . |
| 25 | As a result of the well-publicized vagaries of the British electoral system the Conservatives did indeed have more seats than Labour ( 321 to 295 ) although Labour had more votes in the country as a whole ( 13.9 million to 13.7 million ) . |
| 26 | That such shifts did indeed take place , is shown by the geological and biological conformity at the edges which once joined together . |
| 27 | No report of the treatment appears to have been published at the time , but evidence has come to light that he did indeed treat at least one patient , a young nurse with a persistent abscess resulting from injuries received in a street accident . |
| 28 | When she was examined , she did indeed have a nasty attack of herpes , but the doctor who looked at her noticed that she was as brown as a berry . |
| 29 | He did indeed immediately contact Hamilton , and the result of their subsequent collaboration was a brilliant joint paper published in the journal Science in 1981 , a paper that won the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . |
| 30 | Fischer did indeed observe that pairs with an uneven sharing of sex roles tended to break up . |