Example sentences of "[pers pn] did [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 2 | I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first . |
| 3 | Philippe was quite correct , I had n't taken my pills and it was one of the days when I did rather need them . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ To answer your question with brutal honesty — I did rather enjoy it . |
| 5 | Anyway , I did finally send it under a pen name — Ben MacLean — mostly to please you , ’ he said defensively . |
| 6 | So I did just ask him er just come to me right out of the blue when he was here one night . |
| 7 | I did not think we could invade this year . |
| 8 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 9 | ‘ I admit I did not think they would do that . ’ |
| 10 | I did not think he was capable of making a will . |
| 11 | When we met I told him that I did not think he had anything more urgent to attend to , and if he thought he had something more important , then his priorities were wrong . |
| 12 | I felt sure the iron chain belonged to my convict , but I did not think he had attacked my sister . |
| 13 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
| 14 | I did not think you thought such things . |
| 15 | ‘ Lucien , I did not think you 'd mind sharing with me . ’ |
| 16 | I did not think you would be here so promptly . ’ |
| 17 | Like Ulysses , I had , by my standards then , made un beau voyage , but I did not think it would result in my being content to stay at home thereafter . |
| 18 | I did not think it a good book , but I shall always be grateful to it . |
| 19 | The row was like an earthquake but I did not think it was the end for us , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ I am thrilled , ’ said Marcelle , ‘ I did not think it would be as easy as this to make friends with an English gentleman . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ … I did not think it would come so quickly , ’ he told Tom Jones on 4 November . |
| 22 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 23 | ( I did not think it politic to express my reservations . ) |
| 24 | ‘ He was off balance and I did not think it was a penalty . ’ |
| 25 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |
| 26 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 27 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 28 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
| 29 | How often declared that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela till I could show her a purity as nearly equal to hers . |
| 30 | I did not think I noticed as the car drew level |