Example sentences of "we did [verb] the " 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 | It took an hour or more to jog along from Canonbury to Paddington , but we did reach the enchanted spot at last . |
| 4 | And we did compare the eighty nine based headship rates come from that ninety one against the census in . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Erm , the reason and the urgency that applied was very much to ensure that we did attract the Rural Development Fund grant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Though if we did follow the dictates of the market-place , that 's where we 'd be heading , fast . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Palace manager Steve Coppell said : ‘ Everything we get from John now is a bonus because we did fear the worst . |
| 18 | We did the o we did try the overture , I think , er but we er we did n't get on very well with it . |
| 19 | Putting it in therefore , we did read the description . |
| 20 | a personal face of this whole thing , I I ought to say that we did ask the drug company to send some along or er and they said no er but |
| 21 | The last council yes and why not and this council and we have n't heard the end of it yet , well I 'll be coming to that bit do n't rush , do n't rush me We did ask the Secretary of State not to impose V A T on fuel and light because of the hardship it would impose on the people and in particular elderly pensioners , sick and invalids . |
| 22 | ( One time we did scrape the black paint off the windows at the back and we served tea and pastries in the afternoon and had no music , but that was n't a great success with us . |
| 23 | We did notice the old just had a late night on the town . |
| 24 | Other matters arising on page eight , you 'll see on item one three four that we did investigate the possibility , did we , have we got a response on that , of an officer being part of the joint care planning team . |
| 25 | Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief . |
| 26 | We could calculate the heritability for a character of which we did know the exact genetics ( such as Mendel 's peas ) , but there would be little point in doing so , because the actual genotypes controlling the trait are more informative than the heritability . |
| 27 | With Mrs Thatcher we did get the occasional handbagging . |
| 28 | ‘ The service to the frontmen was n't good enough and when we did get the ball to them , we immediately gave it away , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ We did discuss the possibility … |
| 30 | ‘ When The Group left , ’ says Nicky , ‘ we did have the problem of how to keep body and soul together . |