Example sentences of "[vb past] what i [verb] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was born too late and I discovered what I wanted to do too late and what I did I did too late and my death is about to come far too late . |
| 2 | After a while she examined what I had done . |
| 3 | Even though I knew what I had to do , once I got outside Liverpool Street station , I just wandered off aimlessly . |
| 4 | I knew what I had to do . |
| 5 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 6 | But I knew what I had to do , so I did it . ’ |
| 7 | In a split second I knew what I 'd done . |
| 8 | If only I knew what I have done . |
| 9 | I knew what I wanted to do from then . ’ |
| 10 | I knew what I wanted to do , and first of all I asked Miss Sowerby , ‘ Any spare blankets ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I never knew what I wanted to do for a living . |
| 12 | Dad saw what I had done but he covered the coal with an old sack , winked and whispered , ‘ Good girl . ’ |
| 13 | They were always surprised in the morning when they saw what I had done . |
| 14 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 15 | I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me . |
| 16 | In the end I simply did what I had done in writing at full length but I compressed the whole into the 5000-word stipulated maximum length . |
| 17 | So , I did what I learnt to do as a working-class woman , which was to justify why I did my work by saying , well of course it is a metaphor for all kinds of struggle , and of course it is , but actually the original reason was n't that at all . |
| 18 | Over the years since that occasion I have often wondered why I did what I decided to do . |
| 19 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 20 | I wondered what I had done wrong . |