Example sentences of "did [pron] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did a boy still at university , with no prospects yet of any sort of career , what did someone like that want with a massive country house ? |
| 2 | Did I do thirteen C on which one ? |
| 3 | ‘ What did I tell that Cotton bloke ? ’ |
| 4 | Did I leave any splashes on the bench ? |
| 5 | Did I make any deals , brush up any publishing contacts ? |
| 6 | But when and how did I make this escape ? |
| 7 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 8 | Here I must admit to a certain prejudice , in that much as I admired Chapman 's engineering brilliance — it was intuitive , radical , lateral-thinking and extremely sharp — I did not share , then or now , the belief that Colin was a constructor in the class of Enzo Ferrari , nor did I feel any faith in him as a man or a leader of men . |
| 9 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 10 | What did I call that person who comes |
| 11 | Did I take that picture ? |
| 12 | Strangely enough , at no time did I have real doubts that I would be elected , and this determined my public attitude during the three successive ballots that were necessary . |
| 13 | did I have another conversation , Jess and Lucy so I must have had another conversation with you last night then Jess |
| 14 | When I wrote out the application form and it said did I have any experience , I just adapted it . |
| 15 | ‘ Did I have any problems with Cantona ? |
| 16 | ‘ It never did , Fernando ; not for one second did I have any doubts of how deeply I felt for you , only doubts of how deeply you had felt for me . |
| 17 | Why did I have this feeling ? |
| 18 | Only in the evenings did I spend some time with Mr Rochester , and I was careful not to allow him to hold me in his arms or kiss me . |
| 19 | Did I hear that detective say you were a reporter ? ’ |
| 20 | The mind can go horribly blank , especially when you 're thinking , ‘ Did I hear that right ? |
| 21 | Nor did I deplore English accents ; indeed that would be rather silly on the part of a professional linguist . |
| 22 | The first question really should be ‘ why did I buy this machine ? ’ |
| 23 | We are not Jewish , so where did I learn this word ? |
| 24 | Oh where did I see hot cross buns ? |
| 25 | When did I say that Lauren ? |
| 26 | And it 's nine pound , did I say nine pound fifty a tank ? |
| 27 | Did I say new vogues ? |
| 28 | Did I say two point eight . |
| 29 | Oh sorry , did I say two point eight ? |
| 30 | If you have the temerity you can go to any club anywhere , pick up a round and spend three hours — did I say three hours ? — with people you 've never met before and who have no idea who you are . |