Example sentences of "[adv] we did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 2 | So we did suggest and I did believe your party to support erm , a process where we did consult with local people but we also took other factors into consideration . |
| 3 | so we did like a meal for , I think there was about thirty of them |
| 4 | So we did consider it . |
| 5 | Er the work that I 've referred to earlier in terms of the through traffic , was assessed before the southern bypass was open er and so we did put in place er a traffic automatic traffic counters on a number of key routes er to see whether on opening of the southern bypass , the actual effects er where the same as we were modelling cos clearly we were concerned that we did n't want to be er basing our assessments of of of of further relief roads on a false premise . |
| 6 | Finally we did look once again at that area of the budget when you put that in . |
| 7 | ‘ South Africa must be worried how easily we did get through , and close to their line , because they know that Will Carling and Jeremy Guscott are amongst the quickest in the world . |
| 8 | Then somehow we did get romantically linked up and some people , right near the end of the situation with that band , singled us out as potentially more interesting than the band , which I suppose was a cruel situation really . |
| 9 | Anyway we did get about ten year old we did go . |
| 10 | Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours . |
| 11 | But I do n't want to go around looking for candidates like we did last time . |
| 12 | we 're not eating in the back room , he can get stuffed , we 'll eat in the posh end for a change Jul , like we did last time |
| 13 | I did n't forget Nelly who had been a good little friend to me , and eventually we did meet up again , several years later . |
| 14 | But it , it did and , and I think there again a little bit of Guild influence because when er we were at meetings we would say , well what are you going to do about the er drapery you know and eventually we did get this better erm you know , drapery . |
| 15 | Now we did go through dramatic exercises in the nineteen sixties , erm where we entered into a three year agreement er on wages settlement at national level . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now we did look for better things . |
| 18 | They drive on the wrong side of the road for some considerable distance which actually amazes me , I 'm sitting there lawfully in the queue and someone comes whizzing by on the right er without any sight of the traffic coming the other way , er interestingly we did have the police er have had the police up there monitoring the situation . |
| 19 | They sent they sent 'em out from er , Abbey National and we had to pay , well we did pay 'im fifty pound , people that put the building on paid . |
| 20 | Well we did decide |
| 21 | Well we did warm up and |
| 22 | Well we did go there one Sunday did n't we ? |
| 23 | Well we did try . |
| 24 | Well we did try and mend it several times , but he 's |
| 25 | Well we did rewrite it , the council initiative would come first , |
| 26 | You know , people And I did n't , well you were suppose Well we did mark the book at perhaps a p a pound to a book you know , like they were in those days . |
| 27 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 28 | Erm y you get a lot of well we did get a lot of verbal abuse from the young the youngsters . |
| 29 | Well we did have a few of your funny friends on afterwards saying do you know this man is he he he is er got the best in parties . |
| 30 | Well we did have some rain but |