Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife began , I know not whether by design or chance , to enquire what she should do , if I should by any accident die , to which I did give her some slight answer , but shall make good use of it to bring myself to some settlement for her sake , by making a will as soon as I can . ‘ |
| 2 | Well there 's one which I did make ; erm we have a dreadful housing situation in Oxford , and I do n't think Phyllis and I would disagree that it 's appalling and erm a lot of it 's outside our control . |
| 3 | I just wish it was all over , like now I had to last out until the thirty first of March , which I did do . |
| 4 | Maybe I mentioned about the fillings coming out on this side of my mouth and at the back , so I ca They took it out in my living room and hypnotized me to forget , hypnotized walking about in my sleep with it , to sleep , got me in the chair and done it , got out of the house , programmed me to go to that dentist in , which I did do instead of going to Mr at . |
| 5 | Your Royal Highness , Ladies and Gentlemen , I have much pleasure , not only seconding the adoption of the report but complimenting Council on an excellent which I did read . |
| 6 | On 16th February 1991 whilst my husband was serving in the Gulf on Operation Granby , I was invited to attend a function at the Corporals Mess ’ — in a particular regiment which , of course , I shall not mention — ’ which I did attend with some of my friends . |
| 7 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 8 | Miss Rose admitted she did n't remember much of that day , except for Celia 's long labour — which I did know about , but it slipped my mind — so it 's possible she 's forgotten other deliveries during the day , when there were other midwives on duty . |
| 9 | Which I did try to tell |
| 10 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 11 | Britain has been particularly fortunate in acquiring the sorts of institutions which she did acquire . |
| 12 | Erm so we we asked and asked and asked could we change back to the old nutrients which we did do in the early part of December , and lo and behold , suddenly there was n't a problem . |
| 13 | So here ended my first tour and I could not claim that I ever actually had a clear view of any German target , save that which we did locate with the aid of Jimmy Marks ' experiment northeast of Rotterdam in mid-June 1940 . |
| 14 | But this is one of one of which we did agree was was a suitable factor to be considered in the er in the analysis . |
| 15 | For the British at large , Czechoslovakia , compared with some of the others , was a not too far-off country of which we did know something : that distinctive spelling , those operas . |
| 16 | We could calculate the heritability for a character of which we did know the exact genetics ( such as Mendel 's peas ) , but there would be little point in doing so , because the actual genotypes controlling the trait are more informative than the heritability . |
| 17 | In the one that we should n't have had which we did have . |
| 18 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 19 | We could reject it at once , just as we might reject a deal which we did riot like . |
| 20 | Which they did do , but yesterday when Brian went to move the dust extractor that the radio was at the side of , there was wires hanging again like bloody clothes line again . |
| 21 | I think I would commend LIFE to you , but it will be with the same conditions and terms as we did last year , with which they did comply . |
| 22 | Apparently , he never wore much jewellery , unlike the majority of nobles that visited him , but that which he did wear was of fabulously high value . |
| 23 | By which he did ascend . |
| 24 | By which he did ascend . |
| 25 | This was partly self-induced through the precarious complexity of his affairs and his suspicion of dealers , partly imposed by the difficulties implicit in negotiating and getting paid for commissions ( which he did receive despite the title ) and his public notoriety . |
| 26 | A man of immense physical vigour , intellectual confidence and moral force , as naturally extrovert as was Paul painfully introvert , his decisive experience was not that of the Council ( which he did attend ) , nor of the Western Christian 's attempt to reshape the gospel when faced with the blandishments of agnostic affluence , still less was it any deep experience of the struggles of the third world ; instead , it was that of the Church 's singularly successful , no-nonsense resistance to communism in Poland : a combination of old-fashioned pieties , unquestioned doctrinal certainties , down-to-earth preoccupation with basic human rights , and a dose of sheer populism . |
| 27 | She did n't know at the time about the pictures that had been taken or about some of those activities in which he did take part . |
| 28 | The defendant had some reason for wishing to weigh the boilers ; and he could do so only by obtaining permission from the plaintiff , which he did obtain by promising to return them in good condition . |
| 29 | Which it did do . |
| 30 | I pulled on my cigarette , wondering what I did think about it . |