Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [conj] [pers pn] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hesitated before adding , ‘ I doubt if Anna would have to get you drunk afore you did it to her . ’ |
| 2 | We shaved , for the oxygen mask would drive you crazy if you did n't , showered and went to the mess hall for the usual powdered eggs for breakfast . |
| 3 | Were they deaf that they did not hear ? |
| 4 | I gave him a pound coin and promised him another if he did his stuff and I walked over to Mrs Newton 's front door . |
| 5 | Afterwards she felt that Sarah had deliberately steered the conversation away from Terry , and recalling her remark that they knew him better than she did , Anne felt uneasy without quite knowing why . |
| 6 | ‘ He was at her , trying to make her say that she loved him better than she did me . |
| 7 | What concerned him more than it did George was that the child would be a boy . |
| 8 | Alex talked to him more than I did . |
| 9 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 10 | The smell of fresh bread from a bakery made him hungry but he did not stop . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose you 'd call it that but I did n't look at it that way . |
| 12 | Oh what do you mean you promise , you promised last time you 'd get it right and you did n't . |
| 13 | Jorden v. Money can be distinguished , because there the promisor made it dear that she did not intend to be legally bound , whereas in the cases to which I refer the proper inference was that the promisor did intend to be bound . |
| 14 | No one had thought it odd that he did n't ; he was seldom seen with the horses . |
| 15 | ‘ They 'd think it odd if we did n't . |
| 16 | ‘ At one time they 'd have thought it odd if I did n't have a girl in tow . |
| 17 | I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war . |
| 18 | I refer the hon. Gentleman to his hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) who , if I have understood her words , made it clear that she did not think that it was a very good idea for people below the lower earnings limit to pay small amounts of national insurance . |
| 19 | While he was not openly aggressive to the strong Barbarossa , he certainly made it clear that he did not wish the emperor to interfere in ecclesiastical matters . |
| 20 | ( He later made it clear that he did not wish the letters revealing his generosity to be published . ) |
| 21 | I tried once or twice to reverse our roles , but he again made it clear that he did not want to talk about himself I said nothing about the glove . |
| 22 | Clark had , however , made it clear that he did not wish to continue for a further term and , as a consequence of an Academic Board working party 's recommendation , a permanent post was created and filled externally by the appointment of the author . |
| 23 | From an early age , Shah Jehan made it clear that he did not care for his third son , and instead increasingly lavished attention on the more amiable Dara Shukoh . |
| 24 | Why , it might still be asked , did Franco go to so much trouble to give the impression that his regime had a basis other than sheer force , when that selfsame exercise made it clear that he did not need to ? |
| 25 | Mr Hull made it clear that he did not know very much about the paintings and that he was not an expert in them . |
| 26 | Heads who are asked where that combination took its origin in their individual histories make it clear that it did not come from training . |
| 27 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |
| 28 | There was something about it that made it different and she did not know if it was a horse in a class of its own or if that was the rider . |
| 29 | But I even find it frightening that he did n't do anything . |
| 30 | I ca n't believe it likely that they did . |