Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was someone I did n't actually see . |
| 2 | The second time , my marriage was everything I did n't want . |
| 3 | David refused his mother 's invitation at first : ‘ To a dedicated anti-capitalist , as I then was , New York was everything I did n't approve of . |
| 4 | It was something I do n't think I 'll ever be able to forget , the twinkling tree and the boot-polished , worried faces everywhere in the darkness . |
| 5 | Meditation was something that only happened east of Suez and although imaging was something I did every time I wrote a book , play or did a drawing , I had not associated it with my cancer . |
| 6 | There was something I did n't tell you at your father 's funeral because it seemed the wrong time , but two days after he died , I received a letter from him . |
| 7 | I looked at his face , which was something I did seldom , for I did n't like it , and saw that he did n't believe me ; that he found it inconceivable that I should n't love him ; that , ageing and unmarried though he was , he believed himself to be irresistible . |
| 8 | I knew that the throat mike would take the strain , I intended to wear it in the front of my hair , as originated by the cast of Les Miserables , not as Joyce wore hers — at the throat — as TV presenters wear them , on the lapel — which in any case was something I did not have . |
| 9 | Maybe there was one I did n't know about … |