Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had got into the habit of tensing up my left leg which I probably did , initially , when I had my accident . |
| 2 | When I played , people who heard what I was doing and liked it recommended that I should get a Precision , which I eventually did , but I could n't seem to get enough of my own playing character to come through with it . |
| 3 | But best of all , I found myself gainfully employed in the South Tyne , which was only a ten-minute walk from the front door , five if I ran , which I often did . |
| 4 | When I stayed overnight at my nan 's , which I often did , I actually slept in a room next to where the old monastery used to be . |
| 5 | Their organisation was loose knit but they accepted anyone who swore the oath of secrecy and agreed to share things in common , which I promptly did . |
| 6 | ‘ On reporting , ’ he recalled , ‘ I was given a piece of steel ( distorted ) , a hacksaw , a file and a square and told to make two sides square , which I quickly did . ’ |
| 7 | On reaching my eighth birthday , I became eligible to join the Juvenile Section of The Salisbury Public Library , something which I quickly did . |
| 8 | I was afraid that if Bekenstein found out about it , he would use it as a further argument to support his ideas about the entropy of black holes , which I still did not like . |
| 9 | I suppose , too , that I felt guilty : if I had behaved like a properly loving wife and refused to let Flora monopolize Richard so blatantly — which I only did because I was enjoying Adam 's company — the situation might not have arisen . |
| 10 | However , I should have done the proper cockpit checks which I certainly did ever after . |
| 11 | Flying forwards is exactly the same as hovering in a wind except that you now have consciously to do things which you probably did automatically in the hover . |
| 12 | The babies , the bottles , the cooking , the diapering , the burping , the carriage wheeling , the pressure cooker , the barbecue , the playground and doing-it-yourself was more comfortable , more safe , secure and satisfying than that supposedly glamorous ‘ career ’ in which you somehow did n't feel wanted and knew you were n't going to get anywhere . |
| 13 | She became assertive-in-spite-of-herself , and marching rapidly from one end of the kitchen to the other , which she always did when entrusting him with a home truth , said , ‘ It 's not , Henry . |
| 14 | She was biting her thumb , which she always did when she was concentrating . |
| 15 | Charlotte did get the position of nanny and often travelled on the same train home on her days off , always in the first compartment behind the tender and always hoping that she would see Albert , which she often did and she leaned out of the window to talk to him when the train stopped in the stations . |
| 16 | When she breast-fed him , which she still did though he was now a year old , the comfort of it made her weep and in weeping she felt happier . |
| 17 | The Great Man had risen late , attended to his correspondence while still in bed , lunched and dined extravagantly well ( which she certainly did not ) and stayed up half the night , much to the chagrin of his generals . |
| 18 | Erm , you will remember that after the last meeting we were going to have a meeting with Mr which we , which we subsequently did have and we put forward several erm possible uses for the old hospital , including re-siting of the library , relocation of the council offices , police station , day centre for the elderly , day services for the physically disabled , for young mothers and children centre and for a mental health services centre and he was delighted that we had the meeting because he has to meet with his superiors late in December , early January , when he has been asked to put forward ideas . |
| 19 | We ca n't dig people 's gardens for them ( or our own for that matter ) ; we ca n't take the active part in life which we once did . |
| 20 | Well again you see , I , I , with us keeping our own pigs which we always did , we were always better off than anybody else and er we er , we , you see when we kept these pigs , we used to either buy or , or breed some young ones see . |
| 21 | So we have to er set out our stall there to form , first of all identify those target P L C's which we really did want to get close to . |
| 22 | Remember your dad putting in a big huge something or other which we never did find out what it was , and it 's an ugly little specimen |
| 23 | He pointed at the house and ordered them to go towards it , which they obediently did . |
| 24 | In one such instance , when the party prospectively disadvantaged happened to be in government , the Home Secretary took the extraordinary step of introducing the order and advising his party colleagues in the House to reject it , which they duly did , the stated reasons being the desirability of awaiting the outcome of a local government review then pending . |
| 25 | The company secretary orally requested the auditors to give a valuation , which they duly did , and the plaintiff sold his shares at that price . |
| 26 | The rise in real levels of social assistance which occurred in the boom could have made such opting out more feasible , even if the social assistance rates did not rise relative to earnings ( which they generally did not — child benefit in particular fell substantially relative to average incomes ) . |
| 27 | If you , if you had to make the tea as many times in the day as us women did which they all did |
| 28 | which they often did |
| 29 | SO Iran-contra did not happen much , except to certain people ; and even those people often felt caught up in events that were exceptionally odd and different , adventures they might have watched on television , and in which they especially did not expect to find themselves . |
| 30 | September 1938 , and under the terms agreed by those representatives , Germany was allowed to occupy Sudetenland , which they promptly did on 10th . |