Example sentences of "i did be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’ |
| 2 | And th and and what I did is , all Roger 's got so far is about one sheet of A four typed up or something like |
| 3 | All I did is I look at what I 've got and if it 's just a single term like that |
| 4 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
| 5 | All I did was to out on a raid — unofficially . |
| 6 | So the first thing I did was to spend ten years with the Royal Shakespeare Company ! |
| 7 | I used to wonder why nothing I did was right . |
| 8 | As I said , what I did was dictated by necessity . |
| 9 | All I did was to use a term to convey a meaning . |
| 10 | The first thing I did was to refurbish my 1973 vehicle , of course I have kept it in good order . |
| 11 | ‘ Everything I did was like stepping stones to Hawaii . ’ |
| 12 | The first thing I did was to get used to it . |
| 13 | Now all I did was park my car in the garden centre , buy a small cactus and walk across the road to X-ray . |
| 14 | ‘ The first thing I did was close down half the company . |
| 15 | And I still do n't know if what I did was right , or even worth the bother ; and I still resent every minute I spend wondering . |
| 16 | ‘ The first thing I did was clap my hands . |
| 17 | Perhaps all I did was to elevate trivia into a principle . |
| 18 | For me , as a guitar player , the first thing I did was plug my guitar in ! |
| 19 | But what I did was , right before we started recording , I purchased a 1969 all-original Marshall 100 watt stack with the original speakers and we used that for most of the record for the rhythm tracks . |
| 20 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd read on the back of a record about open tunings , so the first thing I did was follow Elmore James and tune to D. |
| 22 | ‘ What I did was I went to the ESP factory in New York , back in 1987 . |
| 23 | ‘ What I did was try to bring my experience in Italy to English football and some of the players appreciated what I was doing and enjoyed working with me . |
| 24 | So the first thing I did was distil it down to seven pages of figures accompanied by seven pages of narrative , designed to make sure that the board was properly informed . |
| 25 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 26 | What I did was to make a virtue of my misery . |
| 27 | In fact the first thing I did was ring my 35-year-old daughter who has been a ‘ fitness freak ’ ever since Jane Fonda took to jumping about our TV screens and warned her not to overdo it if she intended to buy the tape — which I am certain she does . |
| 28 | To do what I did was good business sense . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The first film I did was with these other guys who were a little camera shy , ’ recalls Rod , who has appeared in a number of Sara 's group sex films . |
| 30 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |