Example sentences of "we do [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | we did go on a boat . |
| 2 | And in fact , quite fortuitously we did bring along a plan today which has a six mile radius , erm from the Centre of York which was er the subject of some discussion at the greenbelt local plan enquiry and by and large , erm there is some consistency between the outer boundary or the greenbelt erm and the Greater York study area , both at around about six miles from the city centre . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe we did look like an ideal exciting couple ’ , says Ferrier . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices . |
| 6 | We did live in a state , where there were others knew more about the world than we did , and could make sense of it for us . |
| 7 | What we did learn in a month , and that was very essential was milk . |
| 8 | ‘ We do go for a certain amount of fragility . |
| 9 | It is , however , likely we do live in a culture that is in important ways undergoing a process of de-differentiation and hence ‘ post-modernization ’ . ? |
| 10 | We do n't know , but erm we do live in a confrontational parliamentary system . |
| 11 | erm I think we do live in a patriarchal society where , even if , for example , some of the single carers that I interviewed — three were men out of eight or nine — and they had an equally hard deal , because the rules are stacked against people caring for dependents , whether the people who care are men or are women . |
| 12 | Unless we do live in an age of miracles , it seems unavoidable that the current account deficit this year will be about £20bn , an unenviable record . |
| 13 | We do put on a performance for the camera , whereas we do n't usually " perform " our everyday conversations to an audience . |