Example sentences of "and i [adv] did " in BNC.

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1 And er I thought well I wo n't really , and I probably did n't like losing anyway you know I I I was never a good loser I do n't think , and I thought no I sha n't get many votes and I 'll look silly I 'm not putting in for it .
2 It was my job to go into it , and I simply did my job .
3 He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time .
4 Well , I sat in that room and saw this fantastic-looking man come through the door and I just did n't believe it .
5 are going on and I just did n't feel that we could erm support one .
6 but there were some of the things in there and I just did n't expect them to ask me , and it was n't in the book like .
7 oh no I did four at that one and I just did one there .
8 and I just did n't agree with it and I 'm trying to sort of , they say in your subconscious you do sort of look at and the last person erm , will look at you , you get
9 He would n't let me pick him up , comfort him , do anything with him at all and I just did n't know what was wrong with him .
10 The next year we were at Muirfield and I also did the Canada Cup with Peter the following year , 1960 , and here he broke the news to me that he wanted to use his regular St Andrews caddie Wal Gillespie for the 1960 Open .
11 It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go .
12 The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause .
13 Dhani and I both did .
14 I knew that response had been bad in our parish and I honestly did n't expect many young people to be there anyway .
15 Well , they did during the Underground strikes , and I honestly did know a young brat-race type who went to work in the West End on a unicycle .
16 And I particularly did n't like you getting another member of your harem to phone me up on Thursday night and make your excuses .
17 You 're talking and Paul 's talking and I actually did something with it , I actually turned it into a song .
18 And I actually did it in a plastic basin .
19 But first , but when we first came here I spent three hours on a Sunday morning , and I only did that area where you play football .
20 The lesson had started and I still did n't know how to deliver my masterpiece .
21 Aye , for and I still did n't , they did n't show anything .
22 I 've been out there and I still did n't know what erm but they will er if if you 're struggling on any assignment they will not let you struggle for day in day out .
23 And I still did n't know who it were .
24 And I never did either .
25 In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’
26 Andy and I never did get properly told off for what happened , and he hardly ever mentioned that day to me unless he had to .
27 And I never did have .
28 Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’
29 Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge !
30 I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache .
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