Example sentences of "i really did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also — and I 'm quite prepared to admit this — because of all the problems I was having trying to find work , just at that moment I really did n't want the bother of hunting for a new home . |
| 2 | I really did n't want that . |
| 3 | ‘ I really did think you 'd gone , dear , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 5 | Men who could use these things comfortably would have to be three metres tall , and when they came I really did n't want to be there . |
| 6 | Today rucsacs can be delightful to carry , a world apart from my heap of the 1960s , but in those days I really did not like backpacking . |
| 7 | I really did n't want her to go , but she had to . |
| 8 | But I really did n't want to go to Combe Court . |
| 9 | I did n't want to be naughty , but I really did n't want to go to Combe Court . |
| 10 | I thought it was Annie — I really did . |
| 11 | I really did n't want to stay there , even if we did play sports and everything . |
| 12 | As Dana Gillespie recalls , ‘ I 'm sure everyone 's got a different version of it , and I really did n't witness any rows , but I would often hear from my assistant who would tell me he 'd just come back from MainMan offices and the door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum , and there were raised voices between David and him in there . |
| 13 | David was n't very happy about me being so blunt , but I think in a way it made him realise that I was really straightforward and that I really did care . |
| 14 | I 'm sure everybody 's got a different version of it and I really did n't witness any rows . |
| 15 | I really did n't know . |
| 16 | And since I really did want to know , the only way was to test it myself . |
| 17 | I really did feel very left out , and left out of something important , a feeling I 'd had before . |
| 18 | But then if I really did n't enjoy it , I would n't do it , would I ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The first time , I really did run away . |
| 20 | I really did n't intend to join this regiment , in fact I was making efforts to rejoin the Yeomanry , who are out here [ his former regiment had landed in Algeria as part of the 6th Armoured Division in the First Army and had supported the 1st Guards Brigade in the battle for Tunis ] , but the C.O. of this regiment chose me by interview and I had to go , being only a very small cog in the wheels of war . |
| 21 | Whether as Gorbals kid street fighter , trustee of New Scientist , Fellow of the Royal Society or captain of industry , I really did like the man . |
| 22 | Besides , the trend on the national newspapers was away from staff photographers and to contract work and I really did n't see the point in moving my family to London without any job security . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I really did n't notice . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I really did disappear completely . |
| 25 | He had a thick stick of some kind — quite short-in his hand , and he said something about this being a holdup , or a stick-up or some term I really did n't understand . |
| 26 | I am sure that it is an unpopular thing to say , but I really did enjoy School Practice . |
| 27 | I really did feel like a Queen for a moment , well , even longer when I found it was not a flash in the pan , but that they were really going to stay with us . |
| 28 | ‘ I really did want a femur ’ , he said . |
| 29 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 30 | I really did n't . |