Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | But mum we did go in th the car . |
| 6 | Of course we did have gangs , as do as other places : London , Birmingham , Manchester , Liverpool , Cardiff , etc . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I wanted to double up all Wavebreaker 's standing rigging , just in case we did try to take her across the ocean . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | The other day we did get compared to EMF , though , which is a bit worrying . ’ |
| 12 | On this occasion we did get shot at . |
| 13 | Now , last year in defeating Wider Democracy we did leave ourselves er , in limbo somewhat , with regard to the sectional , industrial conferences . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And erm I , when I was in , in hospital we did have triplets two of those lived alright though . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The country we did transform . |
| 23 | Thirty seconds is to produce a film that 's a long time we did talk about seven second slots as well |
| 24 | The night before I kept it hot , and hot , and hot , and hot , and by time we did get it at quarter to eight I says to him , oh this is horrible , this ! |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | ( 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ In retrospect we did make some questionable decisions , ’ Mr Warren told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that it was exceptionally arduous this year , nut we did survive , whereas many of those we seek to help will not ; and whereas we had bread and cheese to fortify us and homes to return to at the end of those long days , there are millions with none of these things . |