Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rfereee Robbie Hart saw intent where nobody else did and Jan Molby smacked in the penalty . |
| 2 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 3 | After perhaps ten to fifteen minutes the feeling faded , although I also did not wish to speak and I made my way outside . |
| 4 | Although I never did . |
| 5 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 7 | I understand life , and the family ties that make up almost all of it , much less than I ever did . |
| 8 | I still do n't like regulars any more than I ever did ; the officers are not too bad , but the men are not a good type , and the ex-ranker officer is a strain to live with . |
| 9 | I want you to know and I think that you do — that I love you more than I ever did before , but in a slightly different way . |
| 10 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've learned more about love from people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat world in which I spent my life . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
| 13 | I do n't think of her much , no more than I ever did , but something terrible is going on . |
| 14 | Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter . |
| 15 | One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car . |
| 16 | Here in America I perform a lot in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and I probably make more money today than I ever did when I was selling a lot of records as a teenage idol . |
| 17 | I never did anything and I never played with children when I was a child because I did n't want to play with peasants on the estate , so I never did anything except sketching , painting and reading , and I 'm still doing pretty well exactly the same thing , and learning languages . |
| 18 | Although she quickly did all the right things : alerting the police , the coastguard and Dr Forman , Harriet Tremayne knew that she would never see her daughter again . |
| 19 | Although she definitely did suffer from claustrophobia , Sylvia was by no means the worst case I have seen . |
| 20 | She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously . |
| 21 | She was glad she could n't see him properly ; the face that undoubtedly matched these horribly sarcastic comments would be bound to make her feel worse than she already did . |
| 22 | She had just read the last paragraph when the kitchen door opened and Matey entered , far earlier than she normally did , to stare at the unlikely scene before her : Dr Neil characteristically leaning back in his wooden Windsor armchair , McAllister sitting on her stool , reading the paper , the used coffee-cups and the empty biscuit plate sitting between them . |
| 23 | She had eaten much more than she usually did at this time of day . |
| 24 | She had seen more of him over the past few days than she usually did , however , so perhaps there was something … |
| 25 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 26 | I dare n't have done if I had n't er oh oh I know once my my doctor came to see me about something and there was erm a lot of people used to use er some pills oh what were they called , little round pills , when at the monthly periods they used to use them , oh Doctor Johnson 's , Doctor somebody 's pills , now they would have the effect of er your period you would see more than you usually did . |
| 27 | Even when you were first married to Julius , I saw more of your husband than you ever did . |
| 28 | ‘ So she probably did n't vanish voluntarily , ’ Catherine Crane said , in summary . |
| 29 | And then do that for a fortnight so she still did n't have any money . |
| 30 | The mundane world view says this is just ‘ one of those things ’ , that you have unwittingly allowed vegetable peelings or food scraps to bung it up — and so you probably did . |