Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can talk about the nature of art — blah , blah , blah — and I did do some dribbling off into text and stuff , but now I know that movement says more to me than any of this other tosh . |
| 2 | Well , I , I , mean I have been in before and I did say last time we were n't very happy , . |
| 3 | And I did enjoy that volley from just outside the area he scored for Wednesday in the League Cup a few seasons back … now who was that against ? |
| 4 | I mean if it is helpful and Mr and I did have this discussion in the pre-meeting that we had , er certainly if you wish to recommend that the d that the stars on the the diagram were to be changed er just simply to show one star instead of a route , then I for one would be quite happy with that . |
| 5 | And I did have some of the as well so . |
| 6 | I 'm just wondering er the statutory instruments we 're passing tonight er and I did raise this point to the minister about the drain on the private sector every time a rule and regulation is passed . |
| 7 | I mean , I was there er , I left yesterday afternoon , I mean , I had to go in early and we had erm an auction and I helped do that . |
| 8 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 9 | I did n't much like it , mice and such like have always given me the creeps , but I did feel sorry for it being shut up . |
| 10 | But I did feel sorry for the man who was trying to get out cos he must have been in there for ages . |
| 11 | I would n't say it was a particularly woman-centred experience but I did feel confident in the skills of the midwives and the doctors and knew that there were all the necessary facilities should anything go wrong . |
| 12 | But I did feel cold and I tired easily . |
| 13 | It was the year before war broke out in 1939 and a small sum was paid for a quarter 's lessons , thirteen in all , I think , but I did miss one or two . |
| 14 | He says : ‘ I did n't miss years , but I did miss some very important times in their lives . |
| 15 | He says : ‘ I did n't miss years , but I did miss some very important times in their lives . |
| 16 | I was ill for a lot of my boyhood , but I did manage one complete term at prep school . |
| 17 | I did n't do so , but I did make another suggestion . |
| 18 | The information I had on my own troops was also of a general , somewhat amateurish nature , but I did know that , put in its simplest form , my immune system was a collection of several kinds of cells designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies . |
| 19 | but I did know that one . |
| 20 | But I did see black guillemots swimming down in the bay , and a gully full of boulders where they probably nest . ’ |
| 21 | But I did hear this one and I run to the window |
| 22 | But I did write one thing at school , the school pantomime , which nobody wanted to be in anyway . |
| 23 | I did n't care two pins about killing Boche , but I did get upset at the spectacle of starving French civilians and Arabs when we first took Tunis . |
| 24 | Yeah , I know but I did get those two nice farmhouse chairs |
| 25 | Enid : No , but I did get some pleasure from the abuse . |
| 26 | However , I did not make the wedding but I did get some of the grog and a piece of the cake , and kissed the bride by proxy ( her maid of honour was stand-in ) . |
| 27 | But I did get another tingle of excitement when I swam a shade too near a jagged reef , and she grabbed me by the shoulder to pull me away . |
| 28 | I , I certainly do n't erm propose to go through the service requirements to approve it but I did say that to start with , I just wanted to clarify that all the policies have been |
| 29 | but I did say seven |