Example sentences of "[subord] we did [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although we did receive some sheet music , we mainly got tapes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If we did evolve one species into another , why are there no half-fish or half-humans today ? |
| 6 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 7 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 8 | The main thing was that we were picking up a lot of hawking know-how , even if we did look ridiculous . |
| 9 | So if we did get Three out of four chances we get a blue . |
| 10 | This saved us hours of back-breaking work ( though we did lose some concrete in odd places ) . |
| 11 | For we did understand each other uncommonly well , did we not ? |