Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different . |
| 2 | ‘ Val would presumably prefer you did n't get arrested . ’ |
| 3 | She suddenly realized she did n't know what she had meant . |
| 4 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 5 | Does it matter whether he really died in a burning building or whether he only thinks he did ? |
| 6 | I suddenly realised they did n't like each other ; that they were rivals . |
| 7 | As they drove along Three Springs Road , Juliet suddenly realised they did n't know Miss Rose 's address ! |
| 8 | His gaze had already returned to Jessamy , and she suddenly realised she did n't want to be left alone with Julius . |
| 9 | ‘ He said something that made the implication that I 'd copied and I was sort of so choked I did n't answer . |
| 10 | Sometimes Nick understood what Mister Johnny said and sometimes he only pretended he did , to annoy Carrie , but they were always happy together . |
| 11 | ‘ The main reason we broke up in the '80s was that after five or six years of constant touring and recording we suddenly found we did n't like each other any more . |
| 12 | But , surely , coming back to the a highly say I did n't do it . |
| 13 | As a bad sign of liberated times , the opposition tried to call a press conference on the morning of Mr Baker 's arrival , only to find it did not have official permission to do so . |
| 14 | ‘ I only hope I did everything Sally would have wanted me to do . |
| 15 | I only hope it did not rain , as , for most of the daylight , it did here . |
| 16 | I only hope she did not see my carriage ! ’ |
| 17 | Was obviously pretending he did n't know she was there . |
| 18 | I only know I did not have much fun this summer . ’ |
| 19 | Women suddenly discovered they did n't want to stay at the kitchen sink all day ; they wanted the fulfilment that comes from work , too . |
| 20 | I suddenly decided I did n't see any point in submitting them , I said . |
| 21 | Take this example of a man who suddenly decided he did n't like his job any more and walked out that same day . |
| 22 | So guess who did ! |
| 23 | The Jews had to accept the fact that Gentiles could become Christians and that in so doing they did not have to come to Christ via Jewish cultural conditioning . |
| 24 | She hesitated a minute , or perhaps I only thought she did . |
| 25 | I suddenly felt I did n't want to paint , painting was just showing off , the thing was to experience and experience for ever more . |
| 26 | Perhaps she only meant she did n't want to give him her cold . |
| 27 | Well I know , I only do they did tonight . |
| 28 | I had only pretended I did n't know , preferring to see things as I would like them to be , rather than as they were , imprisoning myself in a ramshackle edifice of lies because I could n't bear to knock it down and start again , shivering and alone in a great expanse of sand . |
| 29 | ‘ I only said they did n't give their names . |
| 30 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that he did n't murder that other apprentice — that he only said he did , to frighten you ? ’ |