Example sentences of "we did [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a breakdown does occur , we rush to our files to extract the relevant memo which shows that we did tell the boss what was happening — that is , we cover ourselves . |
| 2 | and yeah we did forget the first paragraph of the of what we had learned so we just covered what we 'd done really |
| 3 | When we did meet a dog , we always stopped to chat with the owner — if the dog would let us ! |
| 4 | It took an hour or more to jog along from Canonbury to Paddington , but we did reach the enchanted spot at last . |
| 5 | And we did compare the eighty nine based headship rates come from that ninety one against the census in . |
| 6 | Er er , I 've , er I just I 'm just saying that , er , that , that last year er , when I made a few remarks that they were misquoted by Reuters and we did leave the meeting and the share price dropped by er , several P and we had to send out a correcting statement so this year we 've taken the precaution of issuing a press release er , at the same time as er , er , I 'm making these remarks so I hope at least they wo n't be misinterpreted . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yet we did detect an easing off in harassment of Republicans and of itinerants . |
| 10 | ‘ We did make a £3 million offer to Sheffield United for Brian Deane , but they were n't interested . |
| 11 | Er , I make a point of never saying I told you so , but we did expect the upturn to come , because fundamentally stru er , Camco is a strong business . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | well for god 's sake , I mean I often wonder about people who make noise like this how they would feel if we did do the same , but I still say because we 've done our polystyrene insulation she ca n't hear us , it 's worked in the reverse ai n't it ? |
| 16 | Erm , the reason and the urgency that applied was very much to ensure that we did attract the Rural Development Fund grant . |
| 17 | I have to say , that the the year wo I that I 'm reporting on now , nineteen ninety , ninety-one was actually better than we had originally planned and expected , and in fact , that we did eliminate the deficit in that year . |
| 18 | And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We did find the Hall that was to be home for the next couple of nights , with a note pinned to the door giving directions to the pub where the rest of the Society had gathered . |
| 25 | Though if we did follow the dictates of the market-place , that 's where we 'd be heading , fast . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | You know , people And I did n't , well you were suppose Well we did mark the book at perhaps a p a pound to a book you know , like they were in those days . |
| 29 | We did take a plant into her on the Saturday before she died , and then she died the following Saturday er and she . |
| 30 | The er , other recommendation really is just a member 's note the outcome of discussion so far , it has been to the erm , we did take the paper to the Hare Street , Little Parndon er , committee er , in this cycle and there were no comments that came er , from that committee . |