Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] did [adv] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I did not get this trouble with my machines , we used to suffer badly when we first got our computer . |
| 2 | The marriage was a disaster from the word go , although I did n't realize this until it was all over . |
| 3 | I explained at length that I did n't think this was such a good idea . |
| 4 | It is probably all to the good that I did n't have this book with me , since the ready availability of a thick volume containing every registration number ever carried by every aeroplane currently registered or based in the United Kingdom could only have prompted further unanswerable questions as to why anyone could therefore need to write them down . |
| 5 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |
| 6 | It was very obvious from Eleanor 's tone of voice that she did n't like this new development in the fractured relationship between Julius and his wife . |
| 7 | She realized that she did n't know this young man who was her brother . |
| 8 | ‘ Although we did not measure this in our study , I can say from other work the average German sees his doctor 13 times a year , the average Swiss sees his doctor 7.5 times a year and the average Briton 3.5 times . ’ |
| 9 | It 's a pity in a way that we did n't have this discussion before , because I do think it 's important and I think parties these days , goodness knows what we 're matching is to , should be a bit and they want more , sort of less than putting in less fifty percent . |
| 10 | He was a Scotsman depending San Francisco and er situation that what you described but we were handing out food at Christmas Eve to people and people were coming up and er for their own proud they were saying things like I 'm a vegetarian or I do n't eat cheese pasties that was the case that was the only thing you had left but I mean it makes me really angry that we did not have this situation ten or twelve years ago . |
| 11 | Note that we did not test this particular part of the utilities . |
| 12 | However , most of the interviewees stated that they did not perceive this process taking place . |
| 13 | The magistrates pointed out that they did not consider this sufficient punishment , but since the men already had a huge backlog of unpaid fines , there was little point in imposing a larger sum , and no alternative sentence was possible under current law . |
| 14 | Commenting that he did not read this extract from the judgment of Dixon J. as displacing the general principle stated by Fry J. in Bainbrigge v. Browne , 18 Ch.D. 188 , 196 , Fox L.J . |
| 15 | What is perhaps surprising , if it is the case that Beccaria was moved by humane sentiments towards the individual offender , is that he did not use this argument more often . |
| 16 | The letters to Greeves suggest that he did not find this part of a Christian 's duty very easy ( 'Daily Castration Prevents Master Bation' ) . |
| 17 | Er what he did n't do which is which is very sensible and what has failed for other companies is that he did n't decide this is a good idea I 'll have somebody in Newcastle and somebody in Edinburgh and I 'll have somebody , in other words he gradually built the whole of the business out until he reached London by which time he he 'd a hell of exp er a lot of experience and knowledge about this thing 's going . |
| 18 | And I did not find this revelation consoling . |
| 19 | And I did n't see this from the decks of the Mantel a but from a twenty-one-foot sailing boat , Faalifu III , piloted skilfully by a skipper wearing white shorts , a kind of woollen T-shirt and a saucy sailor 's cap — Lucy Young . |
| 20 | But , and I did n't know this until I read the book , if you stand next to something that is triangular shaped , like , say , a triangle , it will give you a great feeling of harmony , and you wo n't give a f— about not having a place to live . ’ |
| 21 | And , if I did n't think this bastard who 's making so fucking free with my dad 's house would follow me there , I 'd jump right back in this minute ! ’ |
| 22 | A profoundly deaf therapist said : ‘ I do feel that if I did n't have this type of job where I 'm meeting different people every day I would withdraw very quickly into myself . ’ |
| 23 | If I did not add this information , I felt I should be told that he had never heard of M. Guérigny . |
| 24 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 25 | Between the wars , and you did n't know this that erm loads of the history that I read here in Britain very different from the history |
| 26 | It is what they expect from Robyn Penrose , and even the rugby-playing boys in the back row would be mildly disappointed if she did n't produce this kind of observation from time to time . |
| 27 | If you did n't do this , they reckoned the bees would n't stay , they 'd leave the hives — or else they 'd pine away and die . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ In the interests of security I think it would be better if you did not mention this night 's events to anyone . |
| 29 | You might think there was something wrong with you if you did not enjoy this form of dedicated slavery but at least a woman had someone to share it with : her husband — and that third party in almost every educated parental home , Dr Benjamin Spock . |
| 30 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |