Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] he do [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says little about it , but I do n't think that there is very much doubt that intellectually he did exhaust himself . |
| 2 | It is true that sometimes he does attack innate ideas ; but this is merely an indirect strategy . |
| 3 | He was always waiting , very receptive to new ideas and so he did like people and organizations to present their views and he did like to hear discussion . |
| 4 | there is some change going on in the rural economy and perhaps he does want to interpret it as er a revolution which the communists can actually get involved in so he 's writing his paper and saying look , this is happening it may not be a rel revolution , but it |
| 5 | ‘ And perhaps he did think she would be better off without him ! ’ |
| 6 | And apparently he did try . |
| 7 | ‘ The door was flung wide and in he did ride |
| 8 | If ever he did go to the bazaar he would expect the shopkeepers to stand up when he entered … |
| 9 | He could have said , ‘ Of course it 's upsetting … ’ and later he does try to waffle his way into a gentler position . |
| 10 | And now he did smile , pleased by her recognition ; by her quoting back at him the poem he had read to her only two days past . |
| 11 | It finished , he tapped his foot , one two three four , and then he did launch into a jig , springy and violent . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's an attractive thought and indeed he does have form . ’ |
| 13 | In answer to this second argument it can be said that the education available to Desiderius of Cahors in the following century is not likely to have been any better , and yet he did write in the manner of earlier letter-writers . |
| 14 | And yet he did encourage those six-monthly sessions at Chequers when the think-tank would come and brief the full Cabinet , and smaller ones in No. 10 for the junior ministers . |
| 15 | But somehow he does get things done , and he has , after all , resisted the lure of the west up to a point — ‘ can I say that I could now fill 360 days with western offers and stay somewhere between America , Europe and Japan for an entire year ? ’ — to continue his own reconstruction work at the Maryinsky . |
| 16 | No he 's not a spastic but like he does talk some serious shit . |
| 17 | But verily he did return , smiling , if a trifle shagged out , saying , ‘ That 's done . ’ |
| 18 | But maybe he did see Rosa run heavily for the door of her home ; maybe he was one of the men in the cafe who knew , who corroborated Tommaso 's insult later with their laughter , and made it impossible for Davide to ignore it and fail to issue his challenge . |
| 19 | But then he did see him , on the road to the village one day . |
| 20 | It 's a cliché to say that the judge had a difficult task but indeed he did have an unenviable job . |
| 21 | Moving on to Mr Curtis , I do n't want to dwell and re re er restate the the difference I had with Mr Curtis this morning , but again he did start a little bit of a red herring running by talking about the major commitment for retailing facilities , er there is a major commitment for retailing facilities in Greater York , er a degree of all provision . |
| 22 | But occasionally he did speak to us , telling more funny stories , offering encouragement and giving me advice and demonstrations on how to improve my golf stroke . |
| 23 | When finally he did broach the subject of the ball , Isobel refused to take his invitation seriously and said he should take someone his own age . |
| 24 | Herluin , when finally he did touch , touched as if the vellum might burn him , timidly and convulsively , and even when he had the book open , for better or worse , agonized a few moments over where to choose on the page , shifting from recto to verso and back again before settling . |
| 25 | Though why he does want me here 's a bit of a mystery . |