Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [pers pn] did " in BNC.

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1 He would have liked some more but it did not seem appropriate .
2 I mean , if you did get one that was n't forty five and you did n't see it , it would n't be a problem for the
3 had the train at half four and I did n't get off .
4 She waited silently behind the door , her face flushed , half excited , half disappointed that he did n't take it further by knocking for admittance , until she came to her senses .
5 I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys
6 You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ .
7 But er , it lasted , I was forty seven and it did n't finish till I was about sixty !
8 She married Harry ‘ because of his laugh and she had thought that the expression in his blue eyes meant much more than it did ’ she did n't dwell on the subject of her life too much .
9 I suppose he must be real hungry if I did n't feed him yesterday .
10 So it just got to the point when he was getting real busy and I did n't want to put my fate in someone else 's hands — even though my way it was a much slower progression .
11 Erm what kind of publicity material we require , and we 'll come on to that later because we did elect a publicity sub group I remember .
12 retarded lad that invented all these strange and he did bank robberies with a remote control car .
13 Other matters arising on page eight , you 'll see on item one three four that we did investigate the possibility , did we , have we got a response on that , of an officer being part of the joint care planning team .
14 Yeah , I think in the end it was fifty thousand that we did , which is going to go out with all the mailings over the next few weeks .
15 It 's like ‘ Wow , he did all that and he did n't even have a band ! ’
16 Ch king prawn chow mein with the noodles and stuff and he had whip marks all over him but anyway I ate all that and I did n't have a sweet , , did n't have a sweet and I we went out for a while and on the way home
17 learning all this but you did n't know all the
18 well Lindsey , mind she smoking when she was twelve and drinking and she did n't like it she says because it made her head go all funny and she did n't know what was going on , what was happening .
19 I was n't at all happy but I did n't have much choice .
20 But that was a matter of choice ; there were some people I did n't like , and many more that I did n't even know .
21 Her father came up and listened for a while and then said that he thought it was all marvellous but he did n't understand a word of it .
22 Afterwards he simply said : ‘ It was my biggest achievement yet and I was not at all disappointed as I did something that I thought was beyond me .
23 I should n't be at all surprised if he did n't fancy me , thought Jenny .
24 They were not at all surprised when they did n't receive a single reply .
25 There was a heavy fine if you did n't go .
26 Had the whole national debt been funded with one-year Treasury bills between 1965 and 1992 ( which , admittedly , not even the most fervent shorteners now advocate ) , taxpayers would have spent $150 billion more than they did .
27 Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition .
28 That , that sort of thing er you used to wear them to protect , to protect your fingers cos it used to get red raw if you did n't .
29 It is helpful in this context if one 's account of the circumstances can be exaggerated in some way , until it becomes clear that nobody , however marvellous , could have coped any better than you did .
30 She done the performance on her own better than she did at the erm
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