Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [conj] [pers pn] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you were n't there , I was there and he did n't beat him up . |
| 2 | ‘ You were n't in direst need , ’ said Felicity , ‘ you got thirty thousand francs a month , which was more than I did . |
| 3 | She stood up slowly , taking time to understand — if she ever did understand it , which was more than he did himself . |
| 4 | i it 's have you been in since they did it up ? |
| 5 | No you 're not cos I did n't know what to put in the box . |
| 6 | Erm you gave a a very full account of the sort of pressures that erm you were under because you did n't have a job and you related it to the necessity of involving yourself in what you euphemistically called the black economy . |
| 7 | It makes us look impressive , which we are n't because we did n't know the half of it either and had to look it all up . |
| 8 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |
| 9 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 10 | So the implication of that study and it 's a rather astonishing one , although it fits exactly with , with the argument we 're developing is that because these , these women were living in very difficult circumstances , in prison , they were even more discriminating about the offspring they were actually and they did n't carry a single one to term that had a birth defect . |
| 11 | Yet how could it be otherwise when they did not know where she was ? |
| 12 | It 's not that we did n't get on together , it 's just we had nothing in common . |
| 13 | It 's not that he did n't say it , but he was somewhere else at the time , and he just heard the bit of it , he heard the back end of it . |
| 14 | I was just going to say that I 'm sure he it 's not that he did n't take it seriously . |
| 15 | I think they are still claiming well it 's not that I did n't know , but anyway Ken |
| 16 | I think still claiming well it 's not that I did n't know , but anyway er Ken |
| 17 | It 's not that you did n't want the ball . |
| 18 | It 's just that we did n't know that I did n't hear what she said . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just that she did n't have any life . ’ |
| 20 | It 's just that she did n't succeed . |
| 21 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 22 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 23 | Well okay , those of you who liked the Shakespeare better , for whatever reasons , even if it 's just because you did n't get to grips with Johnson , which of the plays , first of all , erm did you find most interesting ? |
| 24 | That one of Selby 's you know it was fine until they put an extension in just er a key station as soon as they did that this one started acting up , so he said it 's only since we did that , he said it happened the day after we put that in , I said okay , disconnected it , still did it , disconnected it at the , end here , still did it , erased it from the program so it did n't even know it existed , still did it |
| 25 | It 's only because you did n't tell your bloody brothers ! |
| 26 | I am glad he is out if he did not do it . ’ |
| 27 | It was principally because they did n't perform a greenbelt function . |
| 28 | So you won , Ragu , and in retrospect I think it was right that you did . |
| 29 | I lay on my back thinking deliberately how lovely it would be when it was over and I did n't have to worry any more . |
| 30 | It was n't that we did n't get on , we did — surprisingly well , in fact . |