Example sentences of "did [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 2 | ‘ We did rather wonder what had happened to you , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 3 | She did so want him to kiss her . |
| 4 | All the same , John did soon find himself dancing with June Brae , as one of her partners in Assembly Ball , a ballet by Andrée Howard to Bizet 's Symphony in C , when he too joined Sadler 's Wells Opera-Ballet . |
| 5 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
| 6 | Then your client 's transaction will take priority over any other event ( such as the bankruptcy of the seller ) or transaction ( such as a mortgage of the property ) of which the official certificate of search did not give you notice . |
| 7 | " Amabel , there 'll be nobody in Frizingley to touch you , " said John-William Dallam , sitting down rather heavily since he had run upstairs a little too quickly at her call and did not want her to see how easily , these days , he could lose his breath . |
| 8 | Fenna did not want her to menstruate , Fenna would not allow her to desire . |
| 9 | Fenna did not want her to bleed , and because Fenna did not want it , she had not wanted it either . |
| 10 | He did not want her to do that , to draw the attention of his colleagues . |
| 11 | I did not want her to face the rings that dissolve into the banks of time 's pond when the dead-weight falls to its depths . |
| 12 | Mr. Hallworth 's evidence was that he did not want her to enter into the transaction , but she said she wanted to go ahead with it . |
| 13 | He dared not pull away , even though he did not want her to feel his changing body , but at this point one of her gentle caresses touched the corner of his mouth and before he could stop himself his mouth was on hers , and restrain himself as he might it was a lover 's kiss , not a friend 's . |
| 14 | For a start , she had n't seen Rosemary for fifteen minutes and she did not want her to feel left out . |
| 15 | He did not want her to think he was gloating . |
| 16 | She could hardly descend on Giovanna Sassanta 's house without an appointment , and Anthony had made it abundantly clear that he did not want her to cross the threshold of his hospital . |
| 17 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
| 18 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 19 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 20 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 21 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 22 | Felipe did not want me to go but my father listened to no one . |
| 23 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 24 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 25 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 26 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 27 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 28 | The touch of his hand on her body made her tremble , but she did not want him to stop . |
| 29 | I always said yes , even if I was drained , because I did not want him to chuck the ball to someone else . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ They stated that they did not want him to exist in this fashion . ’ |