Example sentences of "we [vb past] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as this , in August we helped orchestrate a series of practical workshops at the London Print Workshop . |
| 2 | When we did meet a dog , we always stopped to chat with the owner — if the dog would let us ! |
| 3 | While we did observe an active and enthusiastic first-year readers ' club in action , and a considerable number of children using the library during lunch hours , there were indications of a conservative element at work . |
| 4 | Part A goes ninety one to ninety six , part B ninety six to two thousand and six , sites adjacent to the urban area in the Greater York study er which were acceptable for development because corporately the districts and the county did not think that those sites discharged a greenbelt function as the greenbelt local plan was progressed those sites were excluded from the greenbelt erm and yes , we did identify a number of sites which did not conflict with greenbelt objectives erm on the urban edge . |
| 5 | Yet we did detect an easing off in harassment of Republicans and of itinerants . |
| 6 | ‘ We did make a £3 million offer to Sheffield United for Brian Deane , but they were n't interested . |
| 7 | Approximately one year after their initial interview , a further interview was sought with the principal carers whose relative was still alive ( though we did interview a sample of those whose relative had died ) and who had not already been living in an institution at the time of the first carer interview . |
| 8 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 9 | Erm what kind of publicity material we require , and we 'll come on to that later because we did elect a publicity sub group I remember . |
| 10 | In fact we did find a clear difference between the three- and the four-year-olds : the younger ones typically pointed to the box with the chocolate and the older children to the empty box . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , we did find a general mood in Whitehall and amongst the senior civil servants that their system was not perfect and that the time had come for some fairly radical changes . |
| 12 | However , we did find a strong influence on the occurrence of episodes severe enough to lead the mother to take the child to a clinic , and those that subsequently resulted in the child being admitted to hospital , as well as an effect on mortality . |
| 13 | Roger White , head of public relations at Coopers , said : ‘ If we did receive a writ we certainly do n't think there would be any grounds and we would contest it vigorously . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We did bust a gut on the report and we naively hoped it would be decided upon sooner , ’ said Dr Ken Warren , director of technology and strategic planning at Plessey and an Alvey committee member . |
| 15 | We did take a plant into her on the Saturday before she died , and then she died the following Saturday er and she . |
| 16 | We did try a night cap in a ‘ classical music pub ’ but as it was in the underground of a shopping arcade , and the clientele seemed more interested in chomping through their steak and chips than appreciating Karajan 's version of the Emperor Concerto , we just had the one . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , we did spend an evening in my apartment , ’ he said . |
| 18 | We did see a lot of another Miller , Professor George Miller , of Princeton University , a stolid man of undoubted erudition but with none of Jonathan Miller 's expository dynamism . |
| 19 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 20 | We did get a birdie at the 5th and got back at Bernhard , and that seemed to put Seve in good spirit . |
| 21 | We did get a chance to see a little of Riyadh which is a big bustling city . |
| 22 | When we did get a bath it was really quick — just in and out . |
| 23 | We did get a bit of u of er union pay then I I could n't tell you how much it was but it was n't very much , but er |
| 24 | Erm y you get a lot of well we did get a lot of verbal abuse from the young the youngsters . |
| 25 | We we we did get a lot of phone calls complaining about erm loud reggae type music from that area . |
| 26 | Erm we did get a woman later on I think in this little cash desk where the money used to go in the machine you know and er , but you 'd go in and you would have , it used to intrigue me that er you 'd go in and the , the dairy goods was all one side and you , you would , you would , my brother and I would have our lists and it was , we were petrified that we case we made a mistake you know . |
| 27 | Luckily it did n't rain , though we did get a bit cold , and it was a fun day . |
| 28 | So , supposing we did get a search warrant , what would we find ? |
| 29 | Erm on , on yours in fact I could n't check sequence erm on the programme that you 'd given me because I did n't , I , I had know way of telling whether we did get a clash . |
| 30 | She said : ‘ We did get a fair hearing from Coun Bland yesterday but we will carry on campaigning until we have won . |