Example sentences of "i did " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did and I was absolutely amazed at how much stuff I sold and the kind of things people bought . |
| 2 | Although I had been informed that the present French artists were low in merit , I did not expect to find them , with little exception , so totally devoid of it . |
| 3 | He reverts to the point with the analyst : ‘ Supposing I did n't have what a child objectively should be entitled to … ’ . |
| 4 | I did not believe a newspaper should be part of the apparatus of the state ; we are not a totalitarian society . |
| 5 | All I did was to out on a raid — unofficially . |
| 6 | And I did n't hear the bullet leaving the rifle . |
| 7 | It was three years later that I did finally audition , at seventeen . |
| 8 | I did the well trodden path , with phoebe in As You Like It . |
| 9 | And singing is part of that too — I did n't sing before I went into training even though I am musical and play both the piano and the flute . |
| 10 | For Juliet I did ‘ Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face ’ and for Hermia I did the ‘ puppet ’ speech . |
| 11 | For Juliet I did ‘ Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face ’ and for Hermia I did the ‘ puppet ’ speech . |
| 12 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 13 | At school I did English and Art , and looked at theatre design in art — it was all pointing the same way , really . |
| 14 | When I went to drama school it was all very new to me so I did n't have any real comparisons to make — which is a good thing . |
| 15 | It got me noticed here although I think the one-man show I did outside on my own was the real deciding factor with the RSC . |
| 16 | I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice . |
| 17 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 18 | So the first thing I did was to spend ten years with the Royal Shakespeare Company ! |
| 19 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 20 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 21 | Luckily we were still in time to get into the RADA auditions , which I did and got a letter from them saying ‘ not only are you rejected but we strongly advise you to think about another career ’ . |
| 22 | I can remember doing my Mick again from The Caretaker and for Shakespeare I did an outrageous choice of Cardinal Wolsey from Henry VIII , which I do n't think I shall ever be suited to playing . |
| 23 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 24 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 25 | I did n't . |
| 26 | I did not know what to do with it , why I was there . |
| 27 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 28 | I did n't see the point , I said . |
| 29 | I did n't dump them straight away , you know , I said . |
| 30 | I suddenly decided I did n't see any point in submitting them , I said . |