Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [adv] do [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose , too , that I felt guilty : if I had behaved like a properly loving wife and refused to let Flora monopolize Richard so blatantly — which I only did because I was enjoying Adam 's company — the situation might not have arisen . |
| 2 | I suppose while this is for me cos on the sponsorship issue is , would sponsorship have any impact in terms of what I might purchase so if I went to the Scottish Opera or the ballet or to the theatre and I bought a programme which I usually do and one of the things which is interesting about the evening that erm Alan and I spent last time at Scottish Council was that half the people attend Scottish Opera buy a programme and the programmes that I have sponsored always . |
| 3 | She became assertive-in-spite-of-herself , and marching rapidly from one end of the kitchen to the other , which she always did when entrusting him with a home truth , said , ‘ It 's not , Henry . |
| 4 | She was biting her thumb , which she always did when she was concentrating . |
| 5 | Charlotte did get the position of nanny and often travelled on the same train home on her days off , always in the first compartment behind the tender and always hoping that she would see Albert , which she often did and she leaned out of the window to talk to him when the train stopped in the stations . |
| 6 | When she breast-fed him , which she still did though he was now a year old , the comfort of it made her weep and in weeping she felt happier . |
| 7 | We have felt obliged to play up those special things which we alone do and to keep quiet about those which we hold in common . |
| 8 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 9 | She thought she might find Oliver sleeping on the couch which he sometimes did if he came late and did not want to disturb her , but he had not come home . |
| 10 | Circular shafts were dug down to the seams and coal was then dug away from the sides until the pit was in danger of collapsing , which it eventually did after the pit had been abandoned . |
| 11 | I 've done , did nothing different to what I normally do when I |
| 12 | It 's what I never did but I always meant to do |
| 13 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 14 | At this stage simply consider what you normally do but also review the other options that are open to you . |
| 15 | Got there , and what you normally do as well , is you have a key to undo the take the balls out and all the various bits to make it lighter . |
| 16 | Your reply should therefore include not just what you actually did but any special skills you were able to bring to the job and any particular equipment you have been trained to use . |
| 17 | and what we actually do when we 're standing up so that it becomes more effective yeah ? |
| 18 | The base of the cake was the branches , us , the foundation of Save The Children Fund , doing what we usually do but doing it very , very well and very professionally , the fetes , the coffee mornings , the fashion shows , the sort of thing that our reputation is built on . |
| 19 | We 'll do what we always do and everything will be all right . |
| 20 | I hope that Catholic Woman , as it develops , will encourage all Catholic women … single , religious and married … to see the significance of what they already do and the potential which they can yet realise , both in the Church and in society . |
| 21 | Looking at him now , she guessed this was what he always did when he disappeared . |
| 22 | And it did n't help to have that idiot Kegan see what he bad done and try to extricate him . |