Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they met ‘ Everything was so magnetic between us that I just did n't want to leave him , ’ says Jean . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to write a thoughtful song about recent events , and it was important that I just did n't leap right in with an immediate gut reaction . ’ |
| 3 | The fact was that I just did n't know . |
| 4 | All I knew by then was that I just did n't want change . ’ |
| 5 | It was then that I resolved to enjoy the rest of the year , accept that I simply did not have the talent to make the professional grade , and find a job . |
| 6 | Glass credits her with raising the general level of musicianship in the United States and the debt he owes to her tyranny is ‘ a sense of style , accomplishment and a technique that I simply did n't have before . ’ |
| 7 | ’ Lucienne Palmer : ‘ I was so greedy for Oxford Life that I simply did not do enough work , I know . |
| 8 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 9 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 10 | It was so bad that I actually did consider quitting the acting un less I found an exciting role . |
| 11 | And I paid the first fine that I ever did . |
| 12 | erm , and erm , I do n't know that I ever did this , but I never heard anybody heard anybody walking the street , whistling the National Anthem . |
| 13 | was my first stage play that I ever did . |
| 14 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 15 | And it was so lovely to see a bathful of hot water and a proper place that I almost did n't care . |
| 16 | David was n't very happy about me being so blunt , but I think in a way it made him realise that I was really straightforward and that I really did care . |
| 17 | Call for a free brochure ‘ I have to say that I really did n't like the smell much , but it is a VERY natural product so I was happy with that . |
| 18 | Elizabeth answered that she particularly did not want anything to remain that might hurt any living person among her friends — and so with one blow.she destroyed the ‘ flat ’ characters , who could have given her a second literary fame . |
| 19 | But something told her that she probably did not . |
| 20 | her lips curled in a smile , and Patrick wondered if she knew what effect she was having on him — and then realized that she probably did . |
| 21 | On the whole she reckoned that she probably did . |
| 22 | Somehow she doubted whether sharing with Sandra the fact that she already did regret the day she 'd first laid eyes on Matthew would be helpful to anyone . |
| 23 | Dot wanted to explain it was more that she just did n't know him yet , and she was sorry about him being ill . |
| 24 | Mother had told Mrs Archer at Baldersdale school that it was tonsillitis and I 'm not sure that she ever did find out the reality of it . |
| 25 | She was so aware of his hard body , and of the undeniable sex appeal of those jeans and that white shirt , that she deliberately did not look at him , staring fixedly ahead while noting every detail of him as though it was being burned into her brain . |
| 26 | ‘ I would be delighted to design the flowers for your wedding … | ’ The daydream was so engrossing that she almost did n't see the man and the girl struggling on the pavement opposite . |
| 27 | I suddenly realised that she really did n't want to lose me . |
| 28 | Later , as she walked slowly downstairs , only a light blue silk dressing-gown over her skin , which was still warm and fragrant from the bath oil , Laura realised that she really did n't want to watch any television . |
| 29 | It was clear that she still did n't consider Jessamy was capable of holding Julius 's interest for very long . |
| 30 | ‘ The thing about Elise , ’ Rob resumed succinctly , ‘ was that she never did anything by halves . |