Example sentences of "[noun sg] i did [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HSMorris Bristol PS I did find the article amusing and am no less a woman because I did . |
| 2 | I did n't want his title or his money , although I must say in all honesty I did enjoy the London season . |
| 3 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 4 | The only , the only bit I did find was the very last part during the course did n't sound as natural as the rest of it . |
| 5 | I was scolded for an hour by Bessie as the most ungrateful child in the world , and indeed with so much hate in my heart I did feel wicked . |
| 6 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 7 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 8 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 9 | Despite the failings of the course I did have an excellent time and was not put off continuing with chemistry . |
| 10 | Although it is not a mountain tent I did take it on a high camp with a family group . |
| 11 | And , ’ he added with a malevolent glint in his eyes , ‘ at your interview I did point out that I was n't offering a nine-to-five sinecure . ’ |
| 12 | However , in compensation I did find a nice silver hammered halfpenny of Henry V and a few rose farthings . |
| 13 | The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father ! |
| 14 | One question I did ask at the Fire and Public Protection Committees what happens when you do n't , when we bring in a unity authority status . |
| 15 | Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan . |
| 16 | I mean , even if there had been some war I did believe worth fighting , if I 'd been called up or something , I 'm a coward , I 'm just not physically capable . |
| 17 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 18 | And the reason in the first place I did leave the building trade was my hands was breaking out with in industrial disease , see ? |
| 19 | good job I did leave were n't it ? |
| 20 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 21 | At some point I did wonder whether I had more humiliation and torture to look forward to . |
| 22 | I had only recently begun to walk much without a stick — however — after much midnight practice to a ‘ pop ’ record I did manage even the backward steps without a wobble which I felt was the least I could do as I was representing MEDAU ! . |
| 23 | One business outing I did attend was that of the Association of Independent Railways ( AIR ) board . |
| 24 | Later that night I did sleep . |
| 25 | → A while back I did suggest that if readers found some particularly great patches they could write in , stating the model of processor and the parameters used , and we 'd print them . |
| 26 | As I walked out to the front of Wolverhampton station I did wonder a little when I noticed that there was a regular service train on the monitor , due to leave at 1822 . |
| 27 | But Father I did see her . |
| 28 | The short notice I did write was my first appearance in that journal , and I recall that Rowse did not much like it ; but then he did not like Collingwood either . |
| 29 | However , during a break in filming The Big Sleep I did join him and Robert Mitchum for a drink at a nearby pub . |
| 30 | Later on in life I did acquire another bike , a Raleigh , and a good , stout little bike it is . |