Example sentences of "[pers pn] did [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she because I left it to you in case you wanted to spit in the sink she goes oh I did n't last night , so I never brought it up alright ? |
| 2 | although I did n't last Tuesday , I did the Tuesday before and she seemed |
| 3 | I did n't ten minutes later . |
| 4 | They say , oh I did about five examples of this , got them all right , no problems straight , but now I just have n't got a clue , do n't know where |
| 5 | Er where I did about three years and then moved to Southwell . |
| 6 | I did only one series of interviews with him and I do n't think it rubbed off on me to that extent . |
| 7 | ‘ I did possibly forty-five football games from virtually every major press box in the Midwest . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 9 | I did so much shopping I just did n't feel like carrying any more — I 've cooked for days so I can concentrate here . ’ |
| 10 | I never used to worry about getting fat , I supposed that 's one reason I did so much over-eating and got to be 13 ½ stone , which is massive when you 're 5ft 2ins ! |
| 11 | ‘ Very similar , in fact , to the way yours did earlier this evening — Melissa did not take kindly to your remarks about her . ’ |
| 12 | As they were descending , Reynolds said , ‘ I get the impression that you did n't much rate Jenner . ’ |
| 13 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 14 | You did better this morning . |
| 15 | ( Julia MacRae/Walker , £6.99 ) Pat returns to some characters she created in The Surprise Party , a book she did over 20 years ago which has become something of a classic . |
| 16 | Pearl did my round , she did well last week , David did Friday , but she did Monday and Thursday |
| 17 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 18 | When told what the leaves were — for Poison Oak is well known across the Atlantic as a cause of severe contact dermatitis — she decided that she must wash vigorously ; and this she did about 1½ hours after touching the leaves . |
| 19 | ‘ We did n't last year , ’ said Mrs Harper . |
| 20 | And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 22 | They did immensely valuable work ; in many localities , the largest body of able-bodied fully fit men were mainly deaf members of institutes . |
| 23 | Well they did n't this year . |
| 24 | ‘ People have moaned about a Harlequins bias in the current England team , but they did alright this year did n't they ? |
| 25 | Erm , first the district did it and erm they did n't want it so then it was decided to have , to share it with county and that was a disaster too and they did so many cuts each a year and then county took it over . |
| 26 | They did so this time without the usual , drum-beating , bugleblowing support of a packed ground that Vivian Richards had identified as a vital source of inspiration to his teams . |
| 27 | On the other hand , a number of studies ( Houghton , 1973 ; Evason , 1980 ; Pahl , 1985 ; Bradshaw and Millar , 1991 ) have found that some lone mothers , typically between a quarter and a third , say that they feel better-off as lone mothers than they did as married women because being alone means that they themselves have control over their ( albeit limited ) resources . |
| 28 | She knew that Steve adored Maria Luisa and that there was a good chance of them getting together again , and if they did only one person would suffer and that would be Fernando . |
| 29 | She cooked the turkey and booted the uncles ' wives out of her way when they came cluttering into the kitchen trying to help , i.e. interfere , which they did unfailingly each year . |
| 30 | I agreed and I put him under training for Mosquito , and to the best of my knowledge ( and this is only a guess ) he did over 70 sorties , got himself at least one DFC , if not two , and became a very worthwhile member of the Pathfinder Force . |