Example sentences of "did [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember if I did cos I 've been picking them up . |
| 2 | I did cos I thought well if nobody else was eating it , I might as well eat it . |
| 3 | later years , say well okay I , I have n't got a fantastic voice but I did it and that was the bravest thing I did cos I know I have n't |
| 4 | I did cos I dealt fourteen and I had |
| 5 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 6 | She does that sometimes , or at least she did until I started locking her door . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Benjamin did while I glanced around . |
| 9 | The notices go up , inviting applications which no longer refer to ‘ the poor ’ ; and if you read these , you assume it to be some quaint custom , as I did before I heard how much was involved . |
| 10 | He looked at me hard , realized I was being honest , and did as I asked . |
| 11 | It was a pity Wallace got injured when he did as I thought they were begining to hit it off together . |
| 12 | as far as the committee was concerned there is they 've taken a decision on the preferred route , but we did as I 've just referred to in the earlier work , er we did assess that erm and that showed again er that the traffic would n't transfer from the A sixty one onto a southern bypass and a inner northern relief road . |
| 13 | " You could , if you did as I ask of you . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I take it you did as I suggested and got hold of a paper . ’ |
| 16 | He did as I suggested , dropping the wet clothes into a corner by the back door . |
| 17 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |
| 18 | Mind you I would n't recommend having them next door like I did when I lived in South London . |
| 19 | Teaching young children the right from wrong , and why the police are there and , accepting them as friends , like we did when I lived in the village . |
| 20 | The first thing I did when I got behind the houses was to get out of Nibs 's clothes . ’ |
| 21 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I would n't work 16 hours a day , seven days a week , chasing all over the country watching games as I did when I managed Plymouth , Manchester City , Crystal Palace and Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | Erm one , one of the statements that you did come out with when you , when you were saying about erm why you were there , you said about to make sure that your policy is performing how you wish it to which is as good a one as I did when I said you 're obviously satisfied with , with your Friends Provident contract cos we 're brilliant erm Martin asked the question about why has the , why has the bonus gone down and , and you overcame that objection er which was good and he , he was , he was satisfied with that . |
| 24 | The first thing I did when I came to live in this lovely place , was to take out a subscription for MKM . |
| 25 | ‘ The first thing I did when I came out was try to explain to the kids that we were n't bad people . |
| 26 | Well I did when I came out , I played with erm Jackie and Kelly . |
| 27 | you never guess what Andy Spence 's mum did when I went up there for dinner once ? , it 's vile |
| 28 | All I know how to do is write songs , and that 's what I want to do because I would like people to feel as good as I did when I heard a song for the first time . ’ |
| 29 | And talk about me being an honorary man and you know , take the piss out of what I say , like how Geoff [ the Head ] did when I complained bitterly about that bloke [ a workman who had whistled at her ] . |
| 30 | As I did when I found out what he 'd done . ’ |