Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] did [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 3 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |
| 4 | Here in America I perform a lot in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and I probably make more money today than I ever did when I was selling a lot of records as a teenage idol . |
| 5 | Then , as I often did when I was alone at sea , I began to recite Shakespeare . |
| 6 | When I listened though , as I often did when my curiosity over-ran my actions , he was different from the rest . |
| 7 | Well there were one or two that was a bit , got on their high horse , you know and say , It 's disgusting and that , but er I never did because er in cases like that I think there but for the grace of God , you know I I would n't condemn people , in those , we were living in very abnormal times you see . |
| 8 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 9 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 10 | Nanny huffed the way she always did when she was annoyed at something . |
| 11 | When he asked , what did she mean , ‘ taunting ’ , she resorted , as she always did when they argued , to silence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She stood in the doorway with her hand on her hip as she always did when she was angry . |
| 14 | She stood in the doorway with her hand on her hip as she always did when she was angry . |
| 15 | Then Mum changed her tone , as she always did when she wanted to wheedle something out of somebody . |
| 16 | She began to pray to God herself , seeing God quite clearly , as she always did when she said prayers , a robed , long-haired , bearded figure , partly obscured by clouds . |
| 17 | She was biting her thumb , which she always did when she was concentrating . |
| 18 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ That would be the stupidest thing you ever did because he 'll fight you for your child and he 'll win . ’ |
| 21 | All her own passion had died out of her : she felt deflated ; she had the desire to laugh , and she almost did as she said , ‘ Yes , I know what I want at this moment and that 's something to eat and then to get downstairs again , because , you know , it 's Father 's night for the club . ’ |
| 22 | She hurriedly did as she was instructed , stretching her body right over the wooden top of the desk to grip the far edge . |
| 23 | that would be the class and yet they all did cos George and I insisted ! |
| 24 | His two thumbs rotated about one another as they always did when he was agitated and looking for a way to strike . |
| 25 | His legs were beginning to get twitchy and fidgety , the way they always did when it was particularly important for him to keep them under control . |
| 26 | She broke off abruptly , as they always did when they felt themselves nearing the forbidden topic . |
| 27 | He looked at her with new respect , the way they always did when she said something like that . |
| 28 | They were sitting as they always did when her father was home , in the large airy dining room which looked out on the stone patio where in the summer clematis bloomed white and purple . |
| 29 | Of course , he had known they would use the Microwave Gun on him ; they always did when he was up in front of somebody , whenever he was at a disadvantage anyway and needed all the help he could get , whenever he was going for an interview for a job , or being asked things by the Social security people or even clerks in the Post Office . |
| 30 | The night before the wedding the girls hardly slept at all and they did not chatter to one another as they usually did until they found sleep . |