Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] i did " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner had I selected wheels down than I noticed that the port wheel had not come right down because I did not get a green light on that side of the undercarriage indicator . |
| 2 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 3 | I feel at ease — much better than I did then . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They knew him much better than I did . |
| 5 | After considerable reflection , a discussion of the match with a wide circle of friends , a session with a sports psychiatrist , and two calls to the Samaritans , I decide that I lost because Martin played much better than I did . |
| 6 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 7 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 8 | Better tonight than I did last night . |
| 9 | To me all the cows looked similar — small and black all over although I did recognize that some had longer horns and a few had none at all . |
| 10 | In so far as I did understand it , I welcome his commitment of the Labour party to the Trident programme . |
| 11 | You 'd dock my pay soon enough if I did n't do everything you and Matey ordered me to do in my waking hours . ’ |
| 12 | And I must admit once I 'd been I 'd , early on when I did n't know an awful lot , then , yeah , but , later on when I had been more experienced there was n't , there was very little difference between how I treated people whether they made a fuss or not . |
| 13 | ‘ I got a letter from one of my constituents who put it more succinctly than I did , ’ she said . |
| 14 | I now feel I understand people much more now than I did before . |
| 15 | I think she took it more seriously than I did . |
| 16 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 17 | The problem there was the children climbing the fence and with just having spent five hundred and eighty pounds putting a fence up , spent another fifty four pounds although it 's not in the budget , I accept that , er was er a necessary expenditure which I took a decision on straight away because I did n't want to see our five hundred pound fence being knocked down within a week of being put up . |
| 18 | They wo n't get anything until six months later anyway cos I did n't . |
| 19 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 20 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't know why I kept them for as long as I did . |
| 22 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
| 23 | Dana did not shave as often as I did . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't go to the stationary cupboard quite as often as I did before , ’ says manager of quality and training , Claudia McCabe , one of 1000 managers . |
| 25 | I think that 's why I got through life as well as I did . |
| 26 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 27 | ‘ Right-ho ’ — and he knew the situation as well as I did . |
| 28 | McManus , who now faces Thailand 's James Wattana in tomorrow 's semi-final , said : ‘ If I play as well as I did against Stephen , there 's no reason why I ca n't go on to win . |
| 29 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 30 | Thank you very much to those who volunteered , or who were volunteered to help , especially to who worked as hard as I did to get the whole thing set up . |