Example sentences of "that [pron] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what she said to herself , but at the same time she was alarmed , faintly alarmed by the implication that everyone did know such things . |
| 2 | It appeared that no-one did . |
| 3 | The experience was painful enough to ensure that no-one did it again ; it simply was n't worth the risk . |
| 4 | It was three years later that I did finally audition , at seventeen . |
| 5 | I was offered a cleaning job that I did n't much like the look of so I left quietly before the final curtain . |
| 6 | I tried to tell him that I did n't blame him for deflowering me but he was n't listening . |
| 7 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 8 | I also told Sam that I did n't think the main Benskin 's board would approve the switch to management . ’ |
| 9 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 10 | Various Grand Met managers and executives now take the Institute of Chartered Secretaries ’ exams for the same reason that I did . |
| 11 | Sheepishly I had to admit that I did not yet have one . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt I was doing everything I could to nourish and protect the baby and I was so sure about the rightness of it all that I did n't want a scan . |
| 13 | I had begun to feel that ill that I did n't care , but I was back riding out three lots three weeks after the op . ’ |
| 14 | Everybody sitting around me in the dark knew something that I did n't know , because they were real Catholics and I was only pretending . |
| 15 | I thought the Sex stuff was a bit weird but not so weird that I did n't want to get involved with it . |
| 16 | I said that did I share his belief I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 17 | I 'm just sorry that I did n't give it to you sooner . |
| 18 | So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me . |
| 19 | And there is much more advice that I did not take in , except that later I remember it when a new situation arises . |
| 20 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 21 | ‘ The fishermen resented the presence of a government observer and engaged in every possible form of harassment and coercion to ensure that I did not report the actual number of dolphins killed . ’ |
| 22 | That I did not care about my work was , I thought , an outrage . |
| 23 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 24 | I think they noticed that I did not follow their example . |
| 25 | I just told you that I did Madge 's house , did n't I ? |
| 26 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , deciding , for the moment , to keep a safe distance between them , ‘ I know you think I nicked them keys , that I did that kiosk and Madge 's house — ‘ |
| 27 | — I told the Warden that I did n't want to go to no hospital but he never listened . |
| 28 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 29 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 30 | I think it 's only due to the way I was brought up by my mum that I did n't grow up with this real block , thinking it 's great to be white . |