Example sentences of "we do [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what can we do to help the bright child who works well during term but bombs in exams through nerves ? |
| 2 | and yeah we did forget the first paragraph of the of what we had learned so we just covered what we 'd done really |
| 3 | It took an hour or more to jog along from Canonbury to Paddington , but we did reach the enchanted spot at last . |
| 4 | Erm , the reason and the urgency that applied was very much to ensure that we did attract the Rural Development Fund grant . |
| 5 | However , we did find a strong influence on the occurrence of episodes severe enough to lead the mother to take the child to a clinic , and those that subsequently resulted in the child being admitted to hospital , as well as an effect on mortality . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , we did find a general mood in Whitehall and amongst the senior civil servants that their system was not perfect and that the time had come for some fairly radical changes . |
| 7 | In fact we did find a clear difference between the three- and the four-year-olds : the younger ones typically pointed to the box with the chocolate and the older children to the empty box . |
| 8 | ( One time we did scrape the black paint off the windows at the back and we served tea and pastries in the afternoon and had no music , but that was n't a great success with us . |
| 9 | We could calculate the heritability for a character of which we did know the exact genetics ( such as Mendel 's peas ) , but there would be little point in doing so , because the actual genotypes controlling the trait are more informative than the heritability . |
| 10 | She said : ‘ We did get a fair hearing from Coun Bland yesterday but we will carry on campaigning until we have won . |
| 11 | We did get an occasional glimpse of the sun towards the end of the month , and it was so welcome for even our ambulance station had been put out of action , and it was not easy to get patients moved before the next batch came . |
| 12 | As far as other union members ' attitude towards us , I think that we did get an enormous amount of support from like-minded colleagues in organizing around issues of race and sexuality . |
| 13 | With Mrs Thatcher we did get the occasional handbagging . |
| 14 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 15 | Yes , we did have a strong profits recovery in the second half , greatly helped by oil services and U S educational publishing . |
| 16 | My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go . |
| 17 | Cos we did have a young man I say young man , he was in his early twenties , he used to do all that , and he left and they never replaced him ! |
| 18 | Very quick it was but we did have a nice bath did n't |
| 19 | Yeah we did have a good afternoon . |
| 20 | It is n't until ah th , the only time we did have a smashing journey , we went with erm oh what 's , what 's the name of a local firm from Plymouth ? |
| 21 | There 's many factors , many factors , and I 'd like to pay congratulations to Councillor I think it was , or the member certainly that came to the Economic er Sub-committee that discussed the European report back because there we did have a proper discussion about the value of those trips . |
| 22 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 23 | I grew up in an area that did n't have any live theatre to speak of , but we did have a local cinema house , and I was just in awe of this thing called the cinema . |
| 24 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |
| 25 | Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out . |
| 26 | Mind you , we did have a little exotica in our small North Harrow branch [ apart from Molly , Betty etc. at the Christmas party ] ; there was Swiss Knorr 's French Onion soup for the daring housewife , and if a customer really wanted to impress her dinner guests , then we had small tins of pâté de fois gras . |
| 27 | We did n't have an explosion but we did have a big fire . |
| 28 | Yeah we do want a net list for that |
| 29 | We do make a great deal of fuss when children fail to match our expectations particularly when standards of behaviour are concerned . |
| 30 | In paragraph four , page six , we do make a small point about the financial implications er on of course that has been resolved because of er the resolution carried forward in the budget debate and a note there about central training which I could er just , just explain slowly because I have had a number of questions about this . |