Example sentences of "did [pers pn] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How did I do the indenting , with the sub-titles and totals ? |
| 2 | Did I think the big flanker was offside and did I think I was half-held . |
| 3 | " Did I mention the Dasses to you ? " |
| 4 | ‘ Did I mention the Jerry fighters ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't a drunken stupor , nor did I make the tart . ’ |
| 6 | As it happened I did not own a bike , nor did I possess the corduroy shorts , commando rucksack , chunky woollen socks and thick , dubbined boots which were the uniform of the dedicated rambler . |
| 7 | ( 'They said to me in the shop , ’ she 'd said to Anna , ‘ they said did I want the one with a little man on or not . |
| 8 | Why , Mr Tim enquired , his accent a silky simulacrum of an Inuit chewing a Berlitz tape , did I want the afternoons off ? |
| 9 | Did I give the right answer ? ’ |
| 10 | Two were routine , one richly comic , one quite serious ; and in none did I experience the slightest pain or discomfort . |
| 11 | And before the nausea anaesthetised me , did I feel nostalgia , did I feel regret , did I feel the sense of something ending as the island slipped below the edge of the sea ? |
| 12 | Why did I choose the same piece , The Education of Children ? |
| 13 | Did I pay the innkeeper too much , do you think ? ’ |
| 14 | Did I use the word ? |
| 15 | What time did I take the dogs out ? |
| 16 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 17 | Nor did I have the urge to linger on the Neva embankment with Charsky . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean , did I have the cats before the sculpture was done ? |
| 19 | ‘ It could have been major much earlier — I had the know-how and had already done the groundwork — but when I was racing there was n't the time , nor did I have the surplus energy to allow the business its head . |
| 20 | Nor did I have the inclination , she added silently . |
| 21 | Both women and men have a surge of testosterone in the early morning , but as women have a lower level to surge to , they are more likely to be overwhelmed by thoughts like ‘ What 's for breakfast ? ’ or ‘ Did I ring the plumber ? ’ than by passion . |
| 22 | So , how did I indent the sub-title , the detail and th the total line ? |
| 23 | Did I hear the faint chime of church bells coming from the drowned village ? |
| 24 | Only once during the dispute did I hear the woman worker 's point of view publicly debated . |
| 25 | Did I hear the hon. Gentleman say that this happened on Thursday when I was in the Chair ? |
| 26 | Did I hear the Prime Minister correctly ? |
| 27 | Shit Phil did I turn the fire off ? |
| 28 | Yeah , but did I turn the bars off ? |
| 29 | I had no trouble in interpreting this , nor did I find the sequence strange , despite the fact that there are no overt formal links of the kind discussed in 2 . |
| 30 | I had no trouble in interpreting this , nor did I find the sequence strange , despite the fact that there are no overt formal links of the kind discussed in 2 . |