Example sentences of "[subord] we did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we did use to run among |
| 2 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 3 | We may not have been able to stop the legislation ( although we did succeed in reducing its scope ) , but we let the world know that we remained strong and proud and shameless . |
| 4 | The concrete silos that form the view from the airport are not too attractive , but La Rochelle itself and its restaurants in the little streets near the harbour are lovely , although we did get wet during a torrential downpour after dinner . |
| 5 | This was not the biggest success of the trip , although we did enjoy putting on our evening gear , not to mention more champagne at the interval . |
| 6 | although we did notice , I mean , it and this will be during the er sixties anyway that erm , er the various new types of fittings that came out on er several of the London manufacturers were erm stepped up really were n't they you know |
| 7 | Although we did receive some sheet music , we mainly got tapes . |
| 8 | Evening distractions were few , although we did hear Sinead O'Connor blasting out in the early hours in one village , and we spent one evening joining in with some traditional dancing — the original Twist ! |
| 9 | too bad for this time of I bet we 're doing better this year , this time of the year than we did last . |
| 10 | When she brought it down the hospital she said here you are nan er mum she said , nan she said it 's a present for you she said , so we did laugh . |
| 11 | The girls were very bright with one nine-year-old working on her machine from six in the morning to six at night — so we did manage to make some progress . |
| 12 | Yeah , it was a lovely house yeah but we wanted to come back to Harlow you see , so we did like , well we always liked Harlow , really the only reason we went to erm er Hatfield was the fact that Harlow Council no way would move us out of that maisonette , we had two boys and we lived upstairs and Gary had all sorts of accidents on those stairs , in fact we all had because they were outside , erm so in the winter they iced up |
| 13 | And we moved her back , so we did get something else out of the job as well . |
| 14 | But it 's lasted about seven year , so you never can organ but once we did start I did enjoy the ones over here because over there when your kids were small you did n't go out much anyway but now that your kids are up you 've got it , and personally I enjoyed the ones that started but they do n't have Christmas dance , barn dances and things like this , they do n't org we have to have to organize like that ourself . |
| 15 | cos we did go up ladders |
| 16 | the dinner organization was better cos we did manage to get seconds out to those that wanted it . |
| 17 | Ah yes , I ask you about those , erm cos we did say at one time that we thought some of you were going to the half yearly Council meeting and pick them up there . |
| 18 | Erm we did an initial pilot run of nine hundred and seven , er and we had them redirected here which was quite fortunate cos we did find some er previously unthought of errors , erm there were two categories , these are ones where , since the renewal date , they 've had er a decrease erm sorry an increase which meant that erm we 're now quoting on their benefit statement as at last renewal , they 've got today 's er premium which of course is wrong , so we 've had those redirected in future , inside here . |
| 19 | Well that Actually that 's on my disk cos we did have two the the disk partitioned and it 's my half of it that 's got a meg and a half left . |
| 20 | I 'm gon na pull out the minutes cos we did have a meeting , we had a meeting at which was present and that 's how we defined it |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | No it 's not entirely true cos we did have a budget for overtime |
| 23 | ‘ You know , I wanted to take you to lunch at the Ritz , like we did last time , but it would have made us so late in Calking . |
| 24 | But if we did meet it would have to be on my terms . |
| 25 | If we did go ahead , we 'd like to exchange as soon as possible . |
| 26 | ‘ If we did go up we 'd benefit from away teams bringing more supporters . |
| 27 | But if we did appear to be reasonably well … well then , what is there to concern ourselves about ? |
| 28 | Even if we did manage to overpower them we could be putting her life in danger . |
| 29 | If we did evolve one species into another , why are there no half-fish or half-humans today ? |
| 30 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |