Example sentences of "[noun] we did [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 You actually make up a structure like this tetraneedle carbon we did have another one but er , obviously there 's some students have erm decided to do something different with the er things that 's all that 's left !
2 At the present time and in er the public fund and the health committee we did decide to have a review after so I think that is actually in control I do n't think we should mess about with it any more at this point .
3 One strange discovery we did make scraps of paper bearing the word Raphael .
4 Point six means that wh just to remind you that when we had the sales conference we did promise these
5 Mr Chairman we did tackle very successfully er under utilities where we employ an extra couple of officers , I even asked the question at for County Council what was going on , we , I think we 've got something further on the agenda elsewhere where we 're trying to keep our stand standards up , but I still feel that if we 're going to be able to deliver a promise we 've got to deliver it , if it means monitoring the erm utilities then I think we should do it .
6 But mum we did go in th the car .
7 Of course we did have gangs , as do as other places : London , Birmingham , Manchester , Liverpool , Cardiff , etc .
8 Because of course we did put er these proposals , most of these proposals until we 've had to erm at the board meeting er and we did give them full publicity in the Cambridge Evening News a couple of weeks ago .
9 ‘ But with the co-operation of all clubs we did complete the programme on time .
10 I 've already earmarked the cage drilling machine just in case we did require it , to make sure that no parts were taken off it to support the next one .
11 I wanted to double up all Wavebreaker 's standing rigging , just in case we did try to take her across the ocean .
12 But even but even in that case we did have er did have a case with a young a youngish lad who his accountant had written it
13 The other day we did get compared to EMF , though , which is a bit worrying . ’
14 On this occasion we did get shot at .
15 Well one of the things we did do immediately after the er youth consultation is that we erm , we erected a paid for a skate board ramp at erm one of the youth centres in , in Harlow , so you know , we we creating that facility , but erm , what , you , so you your question was more directed at providing more of those kind of facilities .
16 We regret the things we failed to do , we reproach ourselves for things we did do and feel relief that we have moved on .
17 Now , last year in defeating Wider Democracy we did leave ourselves er , in limbo somewhat , with regard to the sectional , industrial conferences .
18 With Mrs Thatcher we did get the occasional handbagging .
19 One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition !
20 Well now that , that 's the thing we did appreciate , because er in those days no , no house had got its own bath it was a case of a tin bath on the hearth , but when I joined the club when I was working in the , when I was thirteen I , I left school cos me being having no father I was able to l leave school when I made me attendances , oh that 's something that might interest you I was thinking about .
21 One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters .
22 ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine .
23 On the other hand we did want to keep it medieval looking on the inside , so what we did was we installed these Yorkshire sliding casement but on the inside as you can see at the top window , we put panel window .
24 And erm I , when I was in , in hospital we did have triplets two of those lived alright though .
25 Yeah page seven er er I think that speaking from memory we did want that made clear that that er was the recognition of the achievements of the groundsman handyman , particularly in relation to the high standards of upkeep in the park .
26 It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap .
27 If I recall er when that er the King Street car park was given to the town by the benefactors we did want entrance er at the top end of the car park for the people who shopped which saved a lot of people coming round that dangerous corner where you know we 've had one fatal accident there , and I just wondered whether we should take this under the umbrella while er we 're actually discussing it .
28 The country we did transform .
29 From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home .
30 It was so difficult in Australia to get that kind of music on record the ones we did get became very influential ; in fact we wore the bloody things out !
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