Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] we did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm for what it 's worth , I 'll give you my suggestions about what we should do as far as ticket prices are concerned er , having taken in a view of the most important factor of the treasurer 's comments but also bearing in mind that we did have high recurring expenses this year , which wo n't apply in future and we 're not here to make money . |
| 2 | Palace manager Steve Coppell said : ‘ Everything we get from John now is a bonus because we did fear the worst . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | However , what I can do is try to present to you some of the points of view we tried to draw together in that group because we did have someone who is a proprietor of a private home ; we had people from health ; we had people from social work ; we had people from housing ; we had people from different interest groups who approached the issue in different ways . |
| 6 | We did n't have an explosion but we did have a big fire . |
| 7 | Yes , okay , could we ask Mr Chairman , on this particular thing on this arson business in one thing that we did express concern of were a number of years that are invariably are started we 've called in to do the research into this and the investigation , so ar does this add now the fact that you 're more sophisticated , does it now mean that your having more staff er , devoted to this , because this was a question that whether we should do it , or whether the police should be doing it ? |
| 8 | Well that , that was another thing that we did debate |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not the best of subjects to inject a little bit of humour but we did find er traces of it nevertheless . |
| 11 | too bad for this time of I bet we 're doing better this year , this time of the year than we did last . |
| 12 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 13 | That 's right , we 've got to balance that with the fact that we did promise them a decrease , but we 've got the erm leverage of having helped them . |