Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i did [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So although I did n't like him touching me the way he had , I decided not to tell anybody . |
| 2 | I feel at ease — much better than I did then . ’ |
| 3 | There were no European schools in Narayanganj so that I did not go to school until I was 12 ; Jon was 14 . |
| 4 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 5 | It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me ! |
| 6 | They were interested in my opinions but not my circumstances , so that I did not have to invent any tales about my past . |
| 7 | I shall never forget the kindness of the many people who took it in turns to give me a lift , so that I did n't have to drive there and back . |
| 8 | He waved me through so that I did n't even have to slow . |
| 9 | He managed somehow to get under my skin , tangle me up inside so that I did n't know if I was coming or going . |
| 10 | One of the English teachers from Nanking stayed in the hospital with me , so that I did n't feel too helpless or lonely , and the 4 British students here visited me . |
| 11 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 12 | Perhaps if I did n't know you so intimately I could be convinced , but I know your sexuality and your demands — ’ |
| 13 | You 'd dock my pay soon enough if I did n't do everything you and Matey ordered me to do in my waking hours . ’ |
| 14 | And I started in the morning at eight o'clock and I did n't stop till midnight . |
| 15 | When he come , when his first one on , said she bet nobody , why Alice come last night at six o'clock but I did n't put them on , I was only at the , I take to the shops you know you do , you have to put the name who you 're talking to on |
| 16 | Once past the Oval , they got even scarcer and following became more difficult , basically because I did n't know where I was . |
| 17 | If I had admitted to being cold , I should also have had to admit that I was hungry , and this was something I was incapable of doing — if only because I did n't believe it to be true . |
| 18 | I started using cow much when I did n't have any plaster or cement . |
| 19 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 20 | The first month was absolute hell , especially as I did n't have a watch . |
| 21 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 22 | I spent as much time wondering how the dome was held together as I did actually climbing . |
| 23 | So when I did n't receive any further communication , I 've gone back to them and asked them whether they would be interested in reducing the price , cos we consider it to be too high for that one acre of land . |
| 24 | And I might have a thousand stashed away that I did n't know about ? |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | By then I realized it was all too late anyway so I did n't put up a fight . |
| 28 | ‘ In a funny way it 's helped to give me back my sense of independence , and I do more physically than I did before . |
| 29 | I told comic stories about them to Richard 's Oxford friends — my own had drifted away and I did n't mind , seeing them through Richard 's eyes as too solemn , too dull , always discussing the balance of payments — and felt no twinge of guilt . |
| 30 | I remember in my teens being determined to do something which was not very nice , turning to her for permission and her saying " Well , I would n't do that — but I think you are old enough to decide for yourself , " and suddenly all the joy in the plan faded away and I did n't do it . |