Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] did [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | och , do you know I was five minutes late , but that was different I was twenty five minutes late , I I did n't even ask her why , cos I knew we 'd in the door like as I 'm walking through it . |
| 2 | Order , or or or order , order , the honourable lady would not expect me to comment on something that has been on television , er in something that I I have no er I I did n't even see last night , it 's up to the minister whether he wishes to come and make a statement it is really not at all a point of order for me . |
| 3 | Erm I 'm not really ans answering the question but I I did n't really want to get on to that one it 's just |
| 4 | If I were planning a home visit to see someone I did n't already know , I 'd go with another colleague . ’ |
| 5 | Maybe it was n't even him that took my bag — maybe it was one of those American tourists or someone I did n't even see , and Dayglo here — Vern — just happened to be running along the wharf . |
| 6 | ‘ There was someone I did n't actually see . |
| 7 | but I mean they were n't you know and I mean someone we did n't even know at all , so er you know all erm but I mean Lionel sat with the guy that organized it and the bus driver so he did n't feel out of it , you know , |
| 8 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 9 | From this Time to that of her Death , few Days pass 'd in which I did not either see or hear from her ; for she gave me the Pleasure of seeing all her Poems as soon as they were finish 'd |
| 10 | The sheets smelt of Croisset — that place which I did not yet know would be forbidden to me ; there was a petal between two of my toes , and a thin scratch down the inside of my right thigh . |
| 11 | The older of the young ones let out a sniggering laugh which developed into a hiccoughy laugh , the younger one hissed out , fuckin' bloody Paki ; a third voice , I could n't tell whose , said something which I did not quite understand but sounded like , and indeed was , National Front . |
| 12 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 13 | Then they gave us a charge sheet — it was huge , something like 23 particulars , some of which I did n't even recognise . ’ |
| 14 | I lost , of course , hardly surprising since the elections were carved up by the various political groups , most of which I did n't even know existed . |
| 15 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 16 | And you 're so anxious to justify yourself , that you answer the question , and then you go on to tell me all the background behind it , and in so doing you give me a lovely piece of information which I did n't actually have when you walked into the room . |
| 17 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 18 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 19 | At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry for making such a fuss , ’ Joan said apologetically , drying her eyes — before taking a few sips of the wine which she did not much like . |
| 21 | She wanted to open the windows in the bedrooms , which she did not usually do , and opened their bedroom door . |
| 22 | True , they had behaved coldly to her afterwards but that was probably because they were envious of the success of her tea parties , to which she did not always feel obliged to invite them … |
| 23 | There was not a poet 's emotion which we did not heartily believe ourselves to share , evoked by the poem but not imitated from it . |
| 24 | The strength of their position , which they did not sufficiently exploit , was that the majority of the TUC , upon whose support the miners depended , preferred the report to a General Strike . |
| 25 | Lydia had said that one night 's fast would be preferable to the plight in which they did indeed now find themselves , but Betty regarded the idea of missing a meal as unnatural and Lydia was overruled . |
| 26 | What caused me concern was , as I say , the slightly uncomfortable feeling that Eliot had been bounced into writing an article which he did not particularly relish doing and to which he would in any case have wished to devote much more reflection . |
| 27 | The second major effect of the introduction of private property occurred , according to Engels , as an indirect result of the change to patriliny , a state which he did not clearly distinguish from patriarchy . |
| 28 | Rainald was convinced of divine approval for his role within the imperial cause ; his reputation as a soldier was considerable , and he put his skill and courage ( which he did not modestly hide ) down to the essential ‘ rightness ’ of his task . |
| 29 | Suppose that he recently sold bonds short ( ie , promised to deliver in future bonds which he did not then own ) when prices were at their peak . |
| 30 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |