Example sentences of "did go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ianthe spoke perfunctorily , for she was walking away from the library with John who had not left her as he usually did to go to his bus stop . |
| 2 | Then what the guys did going down the 18th was incredible . |
| 3 | My slide shows did go down reasonably well , if only because while the lights were out , they had the chance to change places under cover of darkness in the hope of confusing you know who . |
| 4 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 5 | I did go to the beer festivals in Camden , Battersea , Greenwich , Stratford ( and the Cider and Perry Exhibition ) and many others . |
| 6 | Oh , he said , but he did go off and fetch him . |
| 7 | When the couple did go to their bedroom the girls became even more wide awake than before . |
| 8 | If something did go wrong , if tempers flared and violence broke out , they could be hard put to control it . ’ |
| 9 | So David did go to work there , though not without protest . |
| 10 | Mind you , Ralph did go the whole hog with it : he got Gaby Sturmer as PR doing photographs and write-ups and turned out some lovely leaflets . |
| 11 | ‘ We did go out together a few times , yes , Chief Inspector . |
| 12 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the question of aid to Malta had been decided beforehand , and did go through the National Assembly . |
| 14 | Those who did go before 1560 were writing about a country which the English wanted to conquer . |
| 15 | ‘ I did go back recently on a concert tour . |
| 16 | Of those who did go to the 30,000 polling booths , set up in mosques and schools , few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders . |
| 17 | ‘ If the injunction did go through it would have serious consequences for the National Trust nationally . |
| 18 | Whatever the ethics of the disclosure , Leonard Arthur did go on trial in August , 1981 , at Leicester Crown Court . |
| 19 | If however , you did go ahead with revamping the Schenker Method or developing something along similar lines , I would be interested in seeing sample materials . |
| 20 | Despite all this , 'Mill did go in at half-time one goal to the good after some great work on the left by youngster Matthew Hadden . |
| 21 | Although some skulduggery did go on , by and large no-one pinched material from someone else 's fire — it was an unwritten law which was drummed into us at school ‘ to keep your hands from picking and stealing ’ and this was obeyed by most youngsters . |
| 22 | The play was necessarily a matinee , and as we went down past the Albert Hall a siren did go . |
| 23 | Well now you mention it , I think I did go twice , but I do n't know when the second time was . |
| 24 | She spent most of her time weeping and wailing to whoever would listen to her — and she really did go ‘ Boo-hoo ! ’ exactly as it is written in the books . |
| 25 | He did not go to the Grammar School , as has been stated elsewhere ; but he did go to Dr. Henry Clarke 's mathematical school in Salford , answering four mathematical questions in 1775 , and three the following year . |
| 26 | I thought the half bottle of wine we left was symbolic of the extravagant life I was now entering , though I must admit it did go against the grain and I did think vaguely of ‘ bowser bottles ’ . |
| 27 | The passing years took their toll , of course , and he did go into a decline when Grandmother died . |
| 28 | We nearly did go back , when despite picking what looked like the most innocuous section of the next cloud blocking the route , the VSI cranked round briefly to over 1,000 fpm ascent . |
| 29 | Sheila and Annie did go on a bit last time . |
| 30 | Did go round southern gatehouse , having been evicted |