Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a rare interview , Arkan told me he did not despise Albanian people . |
| 2 | Becky looked across at Elspeth , whose big eyes told her she did n't know either . |
| 3 | I followed , even more warily , and my eyes confirmed what I did not want to believe . |
| 4 | Isabel told herself she did n't care . |
| 5 | Another canteen worker in the same village told me she does a shift from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. , returns home to work for her family , then she 's back at the pit from 7.30 p.m. until 10.45 p.m . |
| 6 | Then Maggie heard what she did not want to hear ; she heard Rachel , who was always so controlled , so strong , so clear , she heard Rachel whimpering , begging , |
| 7 | Lord Weir told McCormack : ‘ It is only due to the fact a young boy saw what you did and , with some little risk to himself , removed the trolleys that an accident which might or might not have been serious , was avoided . ’ |
| 8 | When Ellie did it it did n't seem to fall to pieces like ours is Timothy . |
| 9 | Phil Angell asked him what does it take to risk life and limb . |
| 10 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 11 | The probability of war informed everything they did . |
| 12 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 13 | But this distinction had nothing whatever to do with the difference between intelligentsia and workers within the party . |
| 14 | A photographer from Melody Maker wanted Gedge to pose with an accordion but Gedge told him he did not play the instrument , but Solowka did . |
| 15 | Sam told them what to do from Gartree . |
| 16 | If people felt occasionally frustrated in their relationship with Eliot — as Herbert Read told me he did — it was because they could not get behind ‘ the mask ’ . |
| 17 | This time it was because her feelings told her he did n't love her . |
| 18 | Nicola told me she did n't want one . |
| 19 | ‘ As I said before , Elsie told me she did n't … ’ |
| 20 | Robin studied what they did and replied to an article in the race programme which invited applications for marshals . |
| 21 | Indeed the kinds of arguments that are mustered ( Jesus did not ordain women and that is a fact , the church has not ordained women and that is a fact , women in all societies have been subordinate to men and that is a fact ) become no arguments at all when we realize the context in which Jesus did what he did , when we know that the biological views on which Thomas Aquinas ' views were founded were false , and live in a world in which ( in our western societies at least ) women are coming to take their place as the equals of men . |
| 22 | ‘ For one , ’ said Peter , ‘ you do n't know why Sarella did what she did . |
| 23 | The staff member who received the flowers on this occasion did what she did through pure interest and gut instinct . |
| 24 | and they heard this crack , and they did n't think much about it , just as , Rita said what you doing ? |
| 25 | Liz asked the therapist to talk to her parents on her behalf , but the therapist suggested she herself did it with the therapist 's support . |
| 26 | Southwark Crown Court , in London , was told Bedworth believed what he did was fun . |
| 27 | The Labour Party says the firm continued trading without insuring holidaymakers ' money , because Mr Heseltine told them they did n't actually NEED insurance . |
| 28 | It was still possible that Jamie knew something she did n't , without realizing its significance . |
| 29 | We know little of how the Politburo reached its decisions-it did not produce a Richard Crossman — although some information has been provided by members in the glasnost period ( for example it appears that , as in the British Cabinet , formal votes were rarely taken ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |