Example sentences of "[coord] we did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility . |
| 2 | Er er , I 've , er I just I 'm just saying that , er , that , that last year er , when I made a few remarks that they were misquoted by Reuters and we did leave the meeting and the share price dropped by er , several P and we had to send out a correcting statement so this year we 've taken the precaution of issuing a press release er , at the same time as er , er , I 'm making these remarks so I hope at least they wo n't be misinterpreted . |
| 3 | And we did stop when she ordered . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And we did compare the eighty nine based headship rates come from that ninety one against the census in . |
| 6 | Well I presume it 's something like that , do you remember it was an absolute dead loss when we went before erm and we did tell them so . |
| 7 | And we did put forward ideas then as well . |
| 8 | And we did get on reasonably well with the management then , u until we used to run into trouble of course , and er the er nineteen twenty one strike , I can vividly remember that , it was a glorious summer , dead against us nobody wanted any coal and it You had the It gave th the management the opportunity of selling all this All the old stock all the rubbish and everything . |
| 9 | If the worst came to the worst and we did get another president , I would do it , but I 'd rather have a break for a little while . |
| 10 | These are judges who accept ‘ no grovelling on the part of prisoners ’ , even those who play on having a relative in the RUC ( and we did come across a policeman who believed that his brother had been treated leniently in court as a result of this connection with the force ) . |
| 11 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 12 | Erm , yes , as you know I 'm a member of the Essex traffic group and we did state at the time there will be no looking into or no pulling down of any type of property or building , yeah , but it , erm the Council went ahead and looked at Wordsworth Road |
| 13 | ‘ And we did know , ’ said Dierdriu , her face haggard and old now . |
| 14 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 15 | Erm we were agents for a firm called in Australia , who made very good leather indeed , and we did sell quite a large amount of his tanneds to the local er firms for the saddlery trade . |
| 16 | That 's how we built our company , and we did maximize from the hundred and thirty girls from three years ago . |
| 17 | but the point I 'm trying to make is that the person who made the presentation er o o on er for , for the best of riders , I think he 's rather missed the point because he was talking to you about the , including , more information on er within the T V P and we did discuss , er we did like to make it quite clear during our er discussions that riding of horses on the highway is a matter for the T V P , riding horses on bridleways is a matter that we will have to deal with in basic in time . |
| 18 | It helps if you keep the place tidy and regularly mucked out , and we did have one which kept its bed and its toilet place quite separate . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | And we did have some jolly evenings . |
| 21 | And we did require and demand and obtain from the Treasury a great deal of information before we would allow , as it were , any decision to be made . |
| 22 | But we did recognize that in opening the southern bypass , it would have an effect on traffic pattern . |
| 23 | There were a couple of numbers in the set where we could stretch out if we wanted to , but we did manage to keep a nice , loose feel in everything . ’ |
| 24 | England did n't quite make it in the Rugby World Cup but we did manage to fight rival bids from the likes of Sweden , Austria and Canada to host the prestigious Hair Olympics '94 . |
| 25 | But we did manage to get the contract from him after . |
| 26 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 27 | Er , I make a point of never saying I told you so , but we did expect the upturn to come , because fundamentally stru er , Camco is a strong business . |
| 28 | It took an hour or more to jog along from Canonbury to Paddington , but we did reach the enchanted spot at last . |
| 29 | Or members who were n't here or but we did talk this through in some detail . |
| 30 | ‘ But we did stop off on the way for a cup of coffee . ’ |