Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they did obviously have to ask him a lot more questions |
| 2 | I did so want to tell you how I felt , but I just … just could n't seem to , somehow . |
| 3 | Moreover that we did much long to see you , the need we have to use you did provoke our hasty sending . |
| 4 | Lloyd George disarmed his opponents on Ireland with his Russian policy , and his opponents on Russia with his Irish policy , and they did not combine to oppose him . |
| 5 | But it was a beautiful book , too ; I did not want to put it down . |
| 6 | Karen did not want to miss it , any more . |
| 7 | Lily too had noticed the policeman by now and perhaps did not want to encounter him . |
| 8 | She thought she might find Oliver sleeping on the couch which he sometimes did if he came late and did not want to disturb her , but he had not come home . |
| 9 | The room , and the view , and the two people , seemed so calm that I did not want to disturb them . |
| 10 | Ballantyne 's boys were very soft when they first saw the pig because they did not want to disturb it when it was sleeping . |
| 11 | He did not want to see her again , and be faced with his own guilt . |
| 12 | She was afraid to make much noise , for fear of being overheard by her employer next door , for she did not want to see her until after Benedict 's promised visit . |
| 13 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 14 | She did not want to see him , and did so as little as possible . |
| 15 | She did not want to see him or speak to him . |
| 16 | She was angry enough to go into his room and accuse him ; but she thought better of it , for he was shifty and quick and , besides , she did not want to see him . |
| 17 | I did not want to see him . |
| 18 | He did not want to see them simply crushed , not only because he respected their opinion , but because he would have to go on working with them after the Council . |
| 19 | He maintains he did not want to shoot her , but that he was angry with her and was also agitated by a huge bar bill , and as well as by being put in a particularly smokey corner of the night club . |
| 20 | I did not want to touch her . |
| 21 | She did not want to touch it , but she had to . |
| 22 | I was also very conscious that you had telephoned before the 6pm cheap rate because of the mackintosh nonsense , and did not want to detain you . |
| 23 | The shy ten-year-old did not want to take it because she had her new skirt on and a clean blouse and was intent on the fair . |
| 24 | Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary . |
| 25 | Ligachev argued that collective and state farms were still the backbone of the system and that most peasants did not want to leave them to set up on their own . |
| 26 | I did not want to leave her without saying goodbye fairly . |
| 27 | He did not want to do it in front of the crowd . |
| 28 | Getting him to bed in the evening was almost impossible , and when he was forced to do something he did not want to do he could throw violent tantrums . |
| 29 | We did not want to join it because the dues were too high . |
| 30 | Perhaps she could convince him to stop looking at her that way — though , in her heart , she did not want to stop him . |