Emphatic do in Seasons

Das Hilfsverb do in affirmativen Aussagesätzen.

1 (SEASONS1 6:20)
The facts of the prosecution's case that Andy never contested were these: that he had a wife, Linda Collins Dufresne; that in June of 1947 she had expressed an interest in learning the game of golf at the Falmouth Hills Country Club; that she did indeed take lessons for four months; that her instructor was the Falmouth Hills golf pro, Glenn Quentin; that in late August of 1947 Andy learned that Quentin and his wife had become lovers; that Andy and Linda Dufresne argued bitterly on the afternoon of September 1Oth, 1947; that the subject of their argument was her infidelity.

2 (SEASONS1 14:2)
The DA had asked him what he thought had happened, and Andy slipped the question -- but he did have an idea, and I got it out of him late one evening in 1955.

3 (SEASONS1 14:3)
It had taken those seven years for us to progress from nodding acquaintances to fairly close friends -- but I never felt really close to Andy until 1960 or so, and I believe I was the only one who ever did get really close to him.

4 (SEASONS1 15:3)
After that I don't know, but I do know that sixteen years later he was still in Cell 14 of Cellblock 5.

5 (SEASONS1 24:21)
I 'm not saying it was Andy Dufresne, but I do know that he brought in five hundred dollars when he came, and he was a banker in the straight world-- a man who understands better than the rest of us the ways in which money can become power.

6 (SEASONS1 37:5)
A beer does taste good while you're workin.

7 (SEASONS1 40:5)
And yes, he did keep a box of fairly spicy paperbacks under the checkout desk, loaning them out carefully and making sure they always got back.

8 (SEASONS1 50:1)
He probably wasn't the best student Andy ever took over the jumps, and I don't know if he ever did get his high school diploma, but that forms no part of my story.

9 (SEASONS1 62:8)
They did have an inmate named Elwood Blatch.

10 (SEASONS1 65:1)
But for those four years, although he never became exactly like the others, he did become silent, introspective, and brooding.

11 (SEASONS1 72:25)
Cons do go over the wall from time to time, and the searchlights almost always catch them.

12 (SEASONS1 75:17)
Because you do get institutionalized.

13 (SEASONS1 79:40)
Probably he did believe it.

14 (SEASONS1 81:1)
But I do know that there were twenty-six cons listening to Norton's little dust-up with Rich Gonyar that evening as the last of the light faded from a dull late-winter sky, all of us hard-timers and long-line riders who had seen the administrators come and go, the hard-asses and the candy-asses alike, and we all knew that Warden Samuel Norton had just passed what the engineers like to call the breaking strain.

15 (SEASONS1 82:20)
I guess that Rory Tremont decided he didn't have much left to lose after he'd lost his lunch and dinner, because he did go on.

16 (SEASONS1 84:28)
If it hadn't been for the eight months Normaden had spent with him after Warden Norton first came in, I do believe that Andy would have been free before Nixon resigned.

17 (SEASONS1 89:4)
Nevertheless, I have to believe that for the first two years -- until mid-May of 1950, when he helped Byron Hadley get around the tax on his windfall inheritance -- that's exactly what he did get by on.

18 (SEASONS1 98:8)
And if I did find the right one, I might never know it.

19 (SEASONS1 100:1)
Meantime, have a drink on me-- and do think it over.

20 (SEASONS1 107:18)
The guy did look a little bit like Albert Einstein, and he did look a little bit like Boris Karloff, but what he looked like more than anything else was one of the seedy old winos that hung around down by the railroad yard.

21 (SEASONS1 117:6)
He did know?

22 (SEASONS1 117:26)
I really did do a research paper, and you know what I got on it?

23 (SEASONS1 157:8)
Todd did come, about five minutes after Dussander had given up on him for the afternoon.

24 (SEASONS1 178:29)
He was not rich, but he tended what he did have with great care.

25 (SEASONS1 178:40)
-- but I do have a half-grown shepherd pup.

26 (SEASONS1 182:44)
I think he did remember.

27 (SEASONS1 183:4)
Monica, Idon't remember everythimg from my dear dead youth, but one thing I do remeber is that wet dreams are not always pleasant.

28 (SEASONS1 184:24)
He said if the right hand did know, it would probably grab a meat-cleaver and chop the left hand right off.

29 (SEASONS1 239:14)
But from what he does say, I 'd guess he's naturalized.

30 (SEASONS1 248:5)
In some way Morris felt that perhaps he did know where he and Denker had been acquainted, but that his knowledge was like the son of the old couple in the story -- returned from the grave, but not as he was in his mother's memory; returned, instead, horribly crushed and mangled from his fall into the gnashing, whirling machinery.

31 (SEASONS1 249:15)
No doctor predicts it, but it does happen.

32 (SEASONS1 254:9)
But he did look.

33 (SEASONS1 263:4)
And if you did happen to get hold of somebody, what the hell did you say?

34 (SEASONS1 263:11)
Yet, as he lay on the bed flipping through the thin San Remo white pages and half-scanning the columns, it seemed to him that he did know somebody in San Remo.

35 (SEASONS2 284:18)
And if I'd gone much further, some smart lawyer might be able to get him off on entrapment a year or two down the road even if something does pull together.

36 (SEASONS2 284:30)
He 's saying to himself, "This cop is off the wall if he thinks Dussander had a Nazi friend here in town, but if he does think that, it takes me off ground-zero."

37 (SEASONS2 286:25)
Perhaps, if it did happen, it was just luck.

38 (SEASONS2 296:2)
Sure did die hard for a guidance counsellor, Todd thought, and brief laughter escaped him.

39 (SEASONS2 371:10)
But at last I did break the surface.

40 (SEASONS2 373:6)
I never did see that train, nor do I know if its engineer saw us -- when I mentioned the possibility that he hadn't seen us to Chris a couple of years later, he said: They don't blow the horn like that just for chucks, Gordie.

41 (SEASONS2 402:6)
I was positive that sleep would be impossible, but I did sleep -- a light, uneasy sleep that skimmed through unconsciousness like a sub with its periscope up.

42 (SEASONS2 411:11)
What I did tell him was: I was thinking of something else, that's all.

43 (SEASONS2 414:15)
And if small events really do echo up larger and larger through time, yes, maybe if we had done the simple thing and simply hitched into Harlow, they would still be alive today.

44 (SEASONS2 433:8)
And I happened to have a thought -- just in case they did call Bannerman.

45 (SEASONS2 437:7)
Still, it 's mostly just the idea of holding that pail in my two hands, I guess-- as much a symbol of my living as his dying, proof that I really do know which boy it was-- which boy of the five of us.

46 (SEASONS2 446:12)
Constable Bannerman did indeed come out to the Chambers house, but Richie Chambers didn't go to jail.

47 (SEASONS2 447:27)
He was held back a year for repeated absences, tardies, and the attendant flunked courses ... but he did graduate.

48 (SEASONS2 461:21)
And, although it may seem odd, having been left to sink or swim in such an unfamiliar situation, I did enjoy myself.

49 (SEASONS2 467:24)
I didn't feel I needed an engraved card delivered to my apartment door by a footman in livery bearing a gilt plate, I don't mean that, but I did want something, even if it was only a casual remark: Coming by some night, David?

50 (SEASONS2 468:1) But when even that didn't come, I began to think more seriously about going back anyway-- after all, sometimes people really did want you to drop in anytime; I supposed that, at some places, the door always was open; and that mothers weren't always right.

51 (SEASONS2 486:16)
When she did look up at last, there was a small smile on her lips.

52 (SEASONS2 497:17)
And she did come to believe in it.

53 (SEASONS2 510:29)
If he did think such a thing, he could not have been driving an ambulance long.

54 (SEASONS2 515:22)
I did keep track, and I still do.

55 (SEASONS2 524:2)
When the postman finally did show up, walking briskly with his leather bag over his shoulder, dressed in his summer-issue shorts and wearing his summer-issue sun helmet, I 'd meet him at the end of the walk, dancing from one foot to the other as if I badly needed to go to the bathroom; my heart in my throat.

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Gesamtvorkommen von finiten Formen des Verbs do in "Seasons": 751
Emphatische Verwendungen von do in "Seasons": 55; das entspricht ca. 7,32% am Gesamtvorkommen.