Example sentences of "what [pers pn] do [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled on my cigarette , wondering what I did think about it . |
| 2 | What I did expect to see was an improvement from a somewhat disappointing Ards and a Linfield team which did the Irish League proud with an excellent performance against Dinamo Tbilisi the previous Wednesday evening . |
| 3 | I tell you what what I did watch I enjoyed was erm called something of cards , house of cards , Sunday evening , a Monday evening it was |
| 4 | Yeah , I tell you what I did watch erm |
| 5 | Tell you what I did watch one night in the week on Sky was erm they 've er they 've done a feature on erm all these karate actors , you know , the best ones |
| 6 | ‘ That was exactly what I did intend to do . |
| 7 | My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards . |
| 8 | But erm , what I did mean to bring in was th was the that our parents and er our er older erm inhabitants who appreciated the cigarettes and them sort of things . |
| 9 | I do n't know what I did to disturb things , but it was soon obvious I had a blue-green algae problem . |
| 10 | What I did complain of was restlessness and the inability to concentrate . |
| 11 | I 'll do what I did last time . |
| 12 | Truth be told , I ca n't really remember what I did do in those six months . |
| 13 | And in fact what I did do was erm went and bought her a secondhand wardrobe , took it to her , and she was really pleased because apparently she thought it was a better one than the first one . |
| 14 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |
| 15 | but not impulsively , but the , what I did have a concern about and I think we 'll have to be a bit careful about this as we go forward is that , the audio description project is about audio description , youth and funding is about volunteers |
| 16 | ’ I thought that 's what I did have — helping you with the shopping and the boy . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know what to say , ’ Farmer Bolsover said to Brownie Owl , ‘ except that I am very sorry for what I did say about the Brownies , especially about the Brownie who climbed my apple-tree for her budgie . |
| 18 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |
| 19 | Erm well in in the context of what I did say yesterday it 'll come as no great surprise to anyone that like Ryedale we also accept the North Yorkshire County County figures , erm which in short we we find are based on reasonable assumptions and and and an appropriate methodology , compared to some of the more extreme interpretations and projections that have that have been put forward , if I can illustrate that point by reference to er potential building rates , that the highest figure that 's been suggested is the one put forward by Mr Grigson , of Barton Willmore , I 'm talking for the moment about Greater York generally , and I 'll come onto the Selby aspect in a minute . |
| 20 | What I did say was : |
| 21 | What what I did say that Halam had already objected to them going down Station Lane at Edingley which we did . |
| 22 | What I did say is that there are differences in emotional expression between people in different countries , just as much as |
| 23 | What I did not expect to find — and what I did find — was a strong Roman impact on the intellectual relations between Greeks and Jews or Celts or Iranians as soon as Roman power began to be felt outside Italy in the second century B.C. The influence of Rome on the minds of those who came into contact with it was quick and strong . |
| 24 | What I did find very distressing in his remarks , er were basically in respect of some of the savings . |
| 25 | At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy . |
| 26 | Maureen 's skill lay in basic first-aid and tender loving care , so I did n't learn about diseases or complicated injuries — but what I did learn was vital to my future work . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know what I did to deserve it . |
| 28 | I do n't quite know what I did to deserve this radical revision in status . |
| 29 | But what I did notice about him was how much he wanted to love women . |
| 30 | Though what I did notice was a motor bicycle parked where it should n't have been — outside Wheeler 's . |