Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 2 | or they just did n't bother to fish him out . |
| 3 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 4 | Either he was so upset that he did n't look where he was going , or he really did jump on purpose . ’ |
| 5 | After perhaps ten to fifteen minutes the feeling faded , although I also did not wish to speak and I made my way outside . |
| 6 | Although I never did . |
| 7 | When they met ‘ Everything was so magnetic between us that I just did n't want to leave him , ’ says Jean . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to write a thoughtful song about recent events , and it was important that I just did n't leap right in with an immediate gut reaction . ’ |
| 9 | The fact was that I just did n't know . |
| 10 | All I knew by then was that I just did n't want change . ’ |
| 11 | It was then that I resolved to enjoy the rest of the year , accept that I simply did not have the talent to make the professional grade , and find a job . |
| 12 | Glass credits her with raising the general level of musicianship in the United States and the debt he owes to her tyranny is ‘ a sense of style , accomplishment and a technique that I simply did n't have before . ’ |
| 13 | ’ Lucienne Palmer : ‘ I was so greedy for Oxford Life that I simply did not do enough work , I know . |
| 14 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 15 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 16 | It was so bad that I actually did consider quitting the acting un less I found an exciting role . |
| 17 | And I paid the first fine that I ever did . |
| 18 | erm , and erm , I do n't know that I ever did this , but I never heard anybody heard anybody walking the street , whistling the National Anthem . |
| 19 | was my first stage play that I ever did . |
| 20 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 21 | And it was so lovely to see a bathful of hot water and a proper place that I almost did n't care . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Call for a free brochure ‘ I have to say that I really did n't like the smell much , but it is a VERY natural product so I was happy with that . |
| 24 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 26 | I understand life , and the family ties that make up almost all of it , much less than I ever did . |
| 27 | I still do n't like regulars any more than I ever did ; the officers are not too bad , but the men are not a good type , and the ex-ranker officer is a strain to live with . |
| 28 | I want you to know and I think that you do — that I love you more than I ever did before , but in a slightly different way . |
| 29 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've learned more about love from people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat world in which I spent my life . ’ |