Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [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 And this is why as I ca n't remember if we mentioned it now , maybe did , maybe or someone else did , that the ego carries out repression very often at the demand of the superego , so the superego has its standards , its barriers , its sense of conscience , its threat of guilt , and the ego , to satisfy those demands , to avoid guilt , carries out repression at its , at its command , or at its insistence .
3 The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me .
4 or they just did n't bother to fish him out .
5 Either he was so upset that he did n't look where he was going , or he really did jump on purpose . ’
6 Cos you did that in your head you did n't use your fingers or anything how did you do it ?
7 he knew what the odds were and everyone else did n't .
8 And er I thought well I wo n't really , and I probably did n't like losing anyway you know I I I was never a good loser I do n't think , and I thought no I sha n't get many votes and I 'll look silly I 'm not putting in for it .
9 It was my job to go into it , and I simply did my job .
10 He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time .
11 Well , I sat in that room and saw this fantastic-looking man come through the door and I just did n't believe it .
12 are going on and I just did n't feel that we could erm support one .
13 but there were some of the things in there and I just did n't expect them to ask me , and it was n't in the book like .
14 oh no I did four at that one and I just did one there .
15 and I just did n't agree with it and I 'm trying to sort of , they say in your subconscious you do sort of look at and the last person erm , will look at you , you get
16 He would n't let me pick him up , comfort him , do anything with him at all and I just did n't know what was wrong with him .
17 The next year we were at Muirfield and I also did the Canada Cup with Peter the following year , 1960 , and here he broke the news to me that he wanted to use his regular St Andrews caddie Wal Gillespie for the 1960 Open .
18 It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go .
19 The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause .
20 Dhani and I both did .
21 I knew that response had been bad in our parish and I honestly did n't expect many young people to be there anyway .
22 Well , they did during the Underground strikes , and I honestly did know a young brat-race type who went to work in the West End on a unicycle .
23 And I particularly did n't like you getting another member of your harem to phone me up on Thursday night and make your excuses .
24 You 're talking and Paul 's talking and I actually did something with it , I actually turned it into a song .
25 And I actually did it in a plastic basin .
26 But first , but when we first came here I spent three hours on a Sunday morning , and I only did that area where you play football .
27 The lesson had started and I still did n't know how to deliver my masterpiece .
28 Aye , for and I still did n't , they did n't show anything .
29 I 've been out there and I still did n't know what erm but they will er if if you 're struggling on any assignment they will not let you struggle for day in day out .
30 And I still did n't know who it were .
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