Example sentences of "[pers pn] did [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | ‘ Very similar , in fact , to the way yours did earlier this evening — Melissa did not take kindly to your remarks about her . ’ |
| 5 | As they were descending , Reynolds said , ‘ I get the impression that you did n't much rate Jenner . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | You did better this morning . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well they did n't this year . |
| 11 | ‘ People have moaned about a Harlequins bias in the current England team , but they did alright this year did n't they ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm glad he did n't that night . ’ |
| 16 | His Dad insisted he locked his bike , but he did n't this time . |
| 17 | This is becoming about as routine as Cal Peete leading driving accuracy , which he did again this year , hitting 753 out of 900 . |
| 18 | He did very little work himself , but bullied everybody who did . |
| 19 | However he did too much business to get sacked . |
| 20 | In 1713–40 , a period during which it did hardly any fighting , the Prussian army lost over 30,000 men by desertion . |