Example sentences of "[noun sg] did i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mummy did I tell you about erm |
| 2 | One of the questions I was asked was , which historical figure did I admire most ? |
| 3 | What a rakish figure did I cut . |
| 4 | to your Council did I knock on the door and say standing for the Liberal Democrats , they said well we 're not sure it 's the way we are going to vote for you , we may vote for somebody else . |
| 5 | ‘ It never did , Fernando ; not for one second did I have any doubts of how deeply I felt for you , only doubts of how deeply you had felt for me . |
| 6 | With what delight , therefore , on scanning the surrounding heath did I spot , barely 50 yards to my left — The Tumulus ! |
| 7 | Not for its elegance did I come to love the evening sky , hellish red with the gathering souls . |
| 8 | For the next fourteen days I spent all the daylight hours either on the forest road , on which no-one but myself ever set foot , or in the jungle , and only twice during that period did I get near the tigress . |
| 9 | Not for a moment did I realise that we would be gone for almost three months , return home for nine months , and then spend one more month to finally finish in Australia ! |
| 10 | The field was laid out in strips about two feet apart and only after pushing into the crop did I realize that the plants were trained up a trellis of almost invisible wires and that I was in a hop field — a ‘ beer field ’ , as Duncan would have called it . |
| 11 | How many responsibilities of a disparate nature did I have to hold in my mind at the same time ? |
| 12 | I 'd abandoned the empty house and walked joyfully into the woods and only by chance did I know what had hit me . |
| 13 | What chance did I have , fond of Bernard as I was , but also , as I daresay you have concluded , and like so many , including I daresay yourself , bored ? |
| 14 | Right , so er tape , what day did I do this ? |
| 15 | and we were having lunch , a late lunch on what day did I say ? |
| 16 | Why in heaven 's name did I have to walk into this nightmare ? |
| 17 | Not a wink all night did I get , so I went for a breath of air . ’ |
| 18 | Well I mean , you know , let's , let's , let's be honest , oh good lord did I leave that there ? |
| 19 | Just a glimpse did I get of a boldly patterned — red , black and white — great spotted woodpecker , and yet its drumming was constantly in my ears . |
| 20 | Only when we had that row did I realize how much the wish to please her had come into it . |
| 21 | I 'm sorry love did I hurt you ? |
| 22 | ‘ What choice did I have ? ’ |
| 23 | I made noises about the absence of a bank in this so-called international airport ; but what choice did I have ? |
| 24 | ‘ What choice did I have ? ’ |
| 25 | What a racket did I keep and to say truth I would I had been more chary than I was … for a faithless wretch I met with : well , he has a deal to answer for . |
| 26 | Only when the station buildings disappeared from sight did I feel safe from further intervention . |
| 27 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 28 | ‘ In no case did I make a formal approach to the top management of any of the firms to get approval or support for the research . |
| 29 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 30 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |