Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [pron] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was scolded for an hour by Bessie as the most ungrateful child in the world , and indeed with so much hate in my heart I did feel wicked . |
| 2 | You know everyone was walking like my hair I did n't know where I was everything that people said would like just echo in my head . |
| 3 | No it is n't erm and erm even those who in , in my experience who did get through there was just an occasional er time when they did n't pass that part of it , they , they , they , they could n't quite manage that , the height side frightened them and er they failed , erm so there 's quite a lot of demands on them and I 'm sure that a lot of women could do it and a lot of women if they had the chance would do it or would , if they were willing to do it , but it 's not something that grabs most women , I do n't think it does , I think it 's the physical side that puts them off , and that is what is the problem with the Fire Service , it is a physical job . |
| 4 | Well I 'll tell you know for my money he did n't deserve to win . |
| 5 | as you 're being my mum you did n't keep us very long . |
| 6 | What did he do is Léonie really my sister what did he do ? |
| 7 | ‘ For the loss of my watch I did n't exactly come up trumps in the breakfast lottery . |
| 8 | My father swore at me , and said it was my fault you did n't come . |
| 9 | To excuse my ineptitude I did not enlighten him . |
| 10 | and I said to her is that what your going to call your baby and she said yes , so I said well you realize what the initials spell and she went Pauline , oh my goodness I did n't know that |
| 11 | Again he 's here , the man on my right who did n't want to be there . |
| 12 | Most of my splicing I did at random , automatically . |
| 13 | However tempting it may be , try to avoid falling in to the trap of ‘ in my day we did it this way ’ or you may receive a stinging reply . |
| 14 | I thought it must be sex , if I turned my back I did it where he could n't spring at me , and I listened . |
| 15 | a customer comes in and he was my wife I did n't have er beard then I was clean-shaven , because after coming to this country when I could n't get a job , I thought that this might be a bar so , which was n't right , but we did it . |
| 16 | Like my father he did not suffer fools gladly , and he had an air of considerable authority which belied his great kindness . |
| 17 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 18 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 19 | Somebody gave him a brush and paints one time and he started in and got it better than any of them , oh my word he did . |
| 20 | What was going to become of my life I did n't know ; but lying there that day by the sea it did n't seem to matter much . |
| 21 | ‘ If only you knew how much of my life I did spend saying sorry . ’ |
| 22 | The film was called Never Take No for An Answer , but in my ignorance I did n't even know what the question was . |
| 23 | The journey had been long , hot and tiring and to add to my list I did n't really want to come home . |
| 24 | To my surprise they did very well . ’ |
| 25 | And he er and he was really delighted of course , so he said , Well I 'm holiday and I 'll come round with the caravan , so I had my holiday which did n't make much difference because there was had to you know we were n't working really , and I went round with him for this week , all round and the villages everywhere . |
| 26 | Yeah but erm , I , I ca n't understand why because when I put in for the my , my house I did n't put him , he were n't even on the pap paperwork and all of a sudden he , he |
| 27 | That 's where I served my time they did n't phew |
| 28 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 29 | My mother who did virtually nothing except cooking and the housework Mrs Raffald did n't do , and who went hardly anywhere , clearly considered this a terrible waste of time . |
| 30 | Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing . |