Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] did [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 2 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 3 | Erm there was a , I mean there was a lot of friction , I mean , I mean I 'm really lucky to have the strength of a friendship that I did because you know , if , I would n't have got , you know where I am , sort of without it , I think . |
| 4 | ‘ Because I was working , he saw more of her than I did when she was a baby , ’ Yasmin says . |
| 5 | I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told . |
| 6 | It was as well that she did because she had forfeited most of her private life for the sake of her chosen career . |
| 7 | She says she feels worse now that she did when her husband died . |
| 8 | Then she will know more than she did as she went up the stairs , my little English mouse . |
| 9 | Will Anne have more luck the second time round than she did when she married Captain Mark Phillips in 1973 ? |
| 10 | But we would n't be starting at that , at the point that you did because we did not , would not have spent the approaching five million that you spent in the first er , month or two of this council . |
| 11 | It 's not worthy , Councillor to try and link trivial trivial politics to score points , to score points , to score points , to score points to score points at the attacks on people with disabilities , in the trivial way that you did because you could n't remember the policy . |
| 12 | So um it 's much I suppose it makes the world a slightly safer place if you can say it was to do with something that you did because it brings the world slightly back under your control , maybe . |
| 13 | When you arrive back you weigh 7 lb ( about 3 kg ) more than you did when you went away . |
| 14 | And th and we 've sustained that now for several months erm much more so than we did when we did the thing at the end of ninety one . |
| 15 | By contrast , the community college students recalled more information when the if-then relations were stated explicitly than they did when they were implicit only . |
| 16 | The next time you start your machine it will still show the lag or lead that it did before you tried to correct it . |
| 17 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 18 | It is worth remembering that Basildon and Thurrock health authority now treats 11,000 more patients in hospital each year than it did when it was first created in 1982 . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's looking worse than he did when it all happened , ’ said Jenny . |
| 20 | Despite the disquiet at the club this year , Mr Stringer still appears more relaxed and more in control than he did when he first took charge in that winter of 1987 . |
| 21 | She got up later than he did because she went to sleep later , tossing and sometimes weeping , and in the end usually fumbling her way downstairs to get herself a drink . |
| 22 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 23 | Maria Luisa made me swear I would never tell anyone and I did because she needed to trust someone . |
| 24 | I ca n't remember if I did cos I 've been picking them up . |
| 25 | Mind you I would n't recommend having them next door like I did when I lived in South London . |
| 26 | I once governed you [ for so she thinks ] and you did as I wanted , you let me deliver Dulé , my wonder , my child , a hero to our people , from death by water , I healed the barren and the sick and granted the silly dreams of lovers , and much other magic besides , so HEAR ME NOW , now that I only hear groans and Dulé hobbles on slit ankles as he rails and Ariel is captive again and croons over Roukoubé and does not speak . |
| 27 | " You could , if you did as I ask of you . |
| 28 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |
| 29 | And if we did if we were to consider that you we 'd refuse you on the grounds that it was done without permission , you 'd have a perfect legitimate right to appeal above our heads and the Department of the Environment would rule against you could rule against us as they did with Mr Crendon |
| 30 | Only the wealthier trusts could afford his standards , but if they did so they purchased a road good for more than a century . |