Example sentences of "[pers pn] did [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , Doc , I do normally but I did n't over the weekend . ’ |
| 3 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 4 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 5 | I had an engagement in town that morning so I did n't post the letter . |
| 6 | I did n't in the beginning but I do now , she can be funny although a bit bitchy at times . |
| 7 | Ignoring that , she continued crossly , ‘ I wanted you to let him go because I did n't in the least fancy the idea of visiting you in jail ! |
| 8 | ‘ I did so at the duchess your mother 's suggestion . ’ |
| 9 | Is that what you did up at the top of the |
| 10 | : Confess what you did wrong to the person you wronged . |
| 11 | What she did she did clearly for the benefit of her daughter who was unwell , as any normal natural mother would in the circumstances . |
| 12 | She did n't in the least mind being accused of having done something she had actually done . |
| 13 | You 're too feisty and she did n't in the end , did n't she ? |
| 14 | Offering coffee , she went straight into the kitchen , her shoulder bag over her arm , and set up the filter machine , talking as she did so about the day 's gossip . |
| 15 | When his chest was clear , she put on the pads for the heart monitor , frowning slightly as she did so at the feel of the chest wall under her hands . |
| 16 | We did n't , we did n't on the first request . |
| 17 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 18 | In a clear reference to last June 's revelations by Royal writer Andrew Morton in his best-seller Diana : Her True Story , the spokesman added : ‘ We did n't in the summer and we do n't intend to now . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I think we did well in the first game at Ibrox , despite the result . |
| 20 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 21 | We all know about that Stewart we did better without the box . |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe we have n't been playing as well recently as we did earlier in the season , but we are still getting the results . |
| 23 | We did so for the next three years . |
| 24 | They did not in the measures involving the five guillotines which I introduced . |
| 25 | But they did n't with the |
| 26 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 27 | I am not expecting the Test wickets to turn a lot — they did n't on the tour there in 1981-82 — and the current Indian attack is based more around pace than spin . |
| 28 | They did n't in the end not because Kevin Keegan refreshed parts Ossie Ardiles could n't reach but because their players were too good . |
| 29 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 30 | The Leeds defence has never looked as secure since they did away with the old back pass law — Whyte and Fairclough looked good because all they had to do was knock it back to big John . |