Example sentences of "they did go " in BNC.
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| 1 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 2 | The Chinese never felt that they had to go anywhere much beyond their own frontiers to acquire knowledge or to find riches ; to the extent that they did go abroad , it was to the west , by land or by hugging the coast . |
| 3 | That is , while they did not start courses at the institutions we studied , they did go on to take a course elsewhere . |
| 4 | And they did go in there . |
| 5 | They did go eventually , though . |
| 6 | Whether any of them was tripped up by his own snare or not I do n't know , but I 'd like to think they did go sprawling head first . |
| 7 | She ought to be hoping instead that they did go to Civitavecchia and finally sorted out the mystery of Jeff and Silvia . |
| 8 | As an admission that , yes , they did go into a bit of a decline , the band has even included re-recorded versions of a couple of songs from their last album , No Place Like Home , a record whose only purpose appears to have been ‘ to keep things ticking over ’ . |