Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | She became assertive-in-spite-of-herself , and marching rapidly from one end of the kitchen to the other , which she always did when entrusting him with a home truth , said , ‘ It 's not , Henry . |
| 2 | She was biting her thumb , which she always did when she was concentrating . |
| 3 | Charlotte did get the position of nanny and often travelled on the same train home on her days off , always in the first compartment behind the tender and always hoping that she would see Albert , which she often did and she leaned out of the window to talk to him when the train stopped in the stations . |
| 4 | When she breast-fed him , which she still did though he was now a year old , the comfort of it made her weep and in weeping she felt happier . |
| 5 | The Great Man had risen late , attended to his correspondence while still in bed , lunched and dined extravagantly well ( which she certainly did not ) and stayed up half the night , much to the chagrin of his generals . |
| 6 | Because what she thought she felt was what she actually did feel and she said it , loud and clear and everyone else could go and fuck themselves . |
| 7 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 8 | That goes without saying ; for instance , that charming staff member in Dublin was only doing what she always did so well . |