Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had already run three miles , and my boots were too heavy for sprinting — besides I did not want to catch the gang in front . |
| 2 | Outside the last bar the cab was waiting remorselessly , the driver with his face averted , waiting to take me somewhere I did n't want to go . |
| 3 | I 'd have brought you some before only I did n't want to interrupt you . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps I had not wanted to feel ? |
| 5 | Once I 'd seen the recording of the race I knew , although perhaps I did n't want to admit it straight away . ’ |
| 6 | Then they decided perhaps I did n't have to stay in that one after all , so put me into another single cell , which was equally disgusting . |
| 7 | It 's Sunday morning so I did n't want to do it . |
| 8 | So I did n't want to burden her by being awkward about it , make her feel bad about it , equally I have n't really thanked her . |
| 9 | And it made everybody was getting shifted down to , so I did n't fancy working down there , we 'd heard that much about it so that 's when I left and went to Walkers . |
| 10 | I have n't got it , you did n't give me your money this morning so I did n't bother going to the building society |
| 11 | Well I did n't go , no , cos Chris int going , so I did n't bother going but I must admit , I mean , when she gave me the papers and what have you that goes with it , I come home , I put it in the cupboard and I 've not even looked at it since . |
| 12 | The only goalie I had was Bobby ‘ Tailor 's Dummy ’ Mimms so I did n't get to see 4–1 scorelines too often . |
| 13 | erm I was reading about carrots , so I did n't get to finish it cos we only had two weeks . |
| 14 | So I did n't get to know what what they did n't have to tell |
| 15 | So I did n't get to hear what , what , I , they did n't have to tell nothing . |
| 16 | I was very pleased er when I came to put the book together to find that er most of er most of the actual walks corresponded with what was on the paper , which was nice , so I did n't have to waste much time . |
| 17 | I was still there , I was in er it was classed as a reserved occupation , so I did n't have to go to the war . |
| 18 | So I did really enjoy reading this report , a well written report , and for me well received , and I offer my congratulations for it . |
| 19 | And he got upset , so I ended up having to bring him downstairs , give him his lunch first and then I put him to sleep in his pram this is all since the weekend this |
| 20 | Suddenly she did n't want to know any more . |
| 21 | It bore a French stamp and suddenly she did n't want to know what was inside that letter . |
| 22 | Liza , while delighted at last to be in the company of Freddie Nash for so long a stretch , was nevertheless sorry to have to share him with this senior fellow officer , however much she had hitherto enjoyed driving Brigadier Smithson . |
| 23 | Only she did n't need to think about it , not really , not about the lovemaking itself at any rate — it was indelibly printed on her mind in glorious Technicolor . |
| 24 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 25 | Perhaps she had often had to put up this kind of defence Ianthe thought . |
| 26 | She did n't know why her lack of experience had thrown him so utterly , and she thought now that perhaps she did n't want to know . |
| 27 | Perhaps she did n't want to meet her family . |
| 28 | Perhaps she did n't want to learn the truth . |
| 29 | But perhaps she did n't have to miss it after all . |
| 30 | Perhaps she did n't have to leave him . |