Example sentences of "[that] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This is what she said to herself , but at the same time she was alarmed , faintly alarmed by the implication that everyone did know such things . |
| 2 | It 's true that I did feel that way at the time . |
| 3 | But I was so anxious to please or , more accurately , to avoid the stigma of being abnormal , that I did manage to find myself a boyfriend . |
| 4 | Sean gave me a birthday card from my wife Susan and I had my photograph taken to prove that I did wear my ‘ Now you 're 40 ’ badges and socks ! |
| 5 | Well it so happens that I did intend you to do a paramount of talking this afternoon , so it 's quite convenient in a way that we are being recorded . |
| 6 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 7 | One thing that I did tell her was that if I ever got arrested she would not be involved . |
| 8 | ‘ But the day I wrote this song I honestly believed that I did love everyone ! ’ insists Paul , chirpily . |
| 9 | Chairman , ye , yes it is a recurring theme of the district auditor an , and I told him in the past , that erm , where this council has a policy that they would support village schools and keep them open wherever possible , erm , that that , that , that decision had been discussed , and er , I , I have to remind that I did remind the district auditor that he does n't have to get elected every four years , as some of us do , and er , those in rural areas know very well that that is the way not to get elected , to be talking about shutting village schools . |
| 10 | The other thing perhaps I could just say , chairman , is that I did meet a representative of the district auditor last week to bring you up to date on the work which the education committee was doing . |
| 11 | The ones that I did want with turtles on it never had any socks . |
| 12 | It is very difficult a Sunday , but it Actually although we did n't take a vote on the bus , the few people that I did speak to a few people , and they were not terrible exited at the idea of of an outing during the week . |
| 13 | Chairman , there 's just one little point that I did speak to the Town Clerk and I think the Council should be aware of it . |
| 14 | And the thing that I did say to June once was erm , you know , when I began to courting and seeing all the girls in the pretty little dresses and things , Marks and Spencer 's had just got clubs going and that , you know . |
| 15 | So this is the same idea and if there 's a star Something that I did see a wee while ago , I saw a f a light very close down to the horizon and I said I 've never seen a star so bright way down there . |
| 16 | And here we did see , by particular favour , the body of Queen Katherine of Valois ; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands , and I did kiss her mouth , reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queene , and this was my birthday , thirty-six years old , that I did kiss a Queene . ’ |
| 17 | And here we did see , by particular favour , the body of Queen Katherine of Valois ; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands , and I did kiss her mouth , reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queene , and this was my birthday , thirty-six years old , that I did kiss a Queene . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't know whether to go for the oatmeal for second choice or whether to stick to the saxe , but I definitely did not want jet or donkey , that I did know . |
| 19 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |
| 20 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |
| 21 | I still had this uncomfortable feeling that I did know her . |
| 22 | Erm , but sole , we 're looking at sole proprietor as well , there 's some good things in that , I E they 're cheap to set up , stuff like that , so they 're not bad as they go , but , I suppose well I 'll have to sell when I 've got more money , I did n't get any replies today not a single blooming one , I 'm a bit cheesed off , so erm , I think I might ring back that one of the ones that I did get a reply from and say thank you . |
| 23 | But there was still a problem about the label Education , and also that I did have such a very large chunk of air-time , 15 per cent of the Channel . |
| 24 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |
| 25 | As irony would have it , however , an examiner that I did have passed on to Rowse the information that , in the paper on Political Institutions , in which I did badly , I had vigorously attacked Rowse 's pamphlet on ‘ The Question of the House of Lords ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Wish that I did have the courage to kiss you , querida , ’ he rasped , ‘ but I have standards and a level of decency to live up to and they are more important to me than a moment of weakness to prove that I am immune to you . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd forgotten , it was so long ago , that I did have some happy days among the bad ones . ’ |
| 28 | that I did have a brain and I was capable of doing things even though it was |
| 29 | I 've got to say that I did enjoy this outing ; although the day began with a freezing start it warmed up later and I had a pleasant time working amongst the iron and other junk that abounds on the riverside . |
| 30 | Just been to a friend 's house and he 's given me a nice cup of tea and a little drop of brandy and that I did enjoy it |