Example sentences of "we did [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Our problem , J. and I , was that wherever we sat we did tend to have a row of armourers planted behind us , and instead of watching the screen their eyes would be fixed on us to see what we were getting up to . |
2 | After we had been constantly studying the sky for a few months and getting the feel of things , we did tend to develop a sixth sense regarding the weather , a bit like farmers . |
3 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
4 | Even if we did manage to overpower them we could be putting her life in danger . |
5 | Their enterprise began as a wholefood store — ‘ we had very little stock but all those years ago we did manage to get organic Basmati rice ’ — with a little tearoom at the back and a Malaysian feast once a week . |
6 | But we did manage to get the contract from him after . |
7 | Erm , it became very clear that that , that bid erm , was in fact , at an early stage , that that bid was not , did not have a realistic chance of being successful , so as , as you know Chairman , when you went on the delegation to see er , Mr in London , actually at that meeting , er , the members of the delegation said to the Secretary of State , well , we recognize , Secretary of State that it 's the wrong area , what we 'd like to really argue for is a bid for the urban core out in Browsley , erm , in , at the end of the day , we did n't even quite get that , but what we did manage to get was objective two status for the urban core of Telford still , and I think that was probably against the odds . |
8 | the dinner organization was better cos we did manage to get seconds out to those that wanted it . |
9 | We did manage to cut the angles needed for a six-sided frame , but found the manual 's description of the formula to find the lengths of frame rather too brief . |
10 | After seven days of climbing up and down the cliff , we did manage to film the fox , amid thick flurries of snow , as it nosed among the nesting ledges , picking up leftovers — a sequence which will last about two minutes on the screen and took some 56 hours to film . |
11 | The girls were very bright with one nine-year-old working on her machine from six in the morning to six at night — so we did manage to make some progress . |
12 | ‘ We did manage to achieve Dalek eye contact with our actors by devising a kind of iris round for one of the cameras which gave you a point-of-view shot from the Dalek . |
13 | There were a couple of numbers in the set where we could stretch out if we wanted to , but we did manage to keep a nice , loose feel in everything . ’ |
14 | We did we did manage to recruit nine during the year but we lost er four by death as Kerry has mentioned , three by removal or one or two elderly people moving into er sheltered or into homes and things like that where they 're no longer contactable , and there were ten lapses making a total of seventeen that we lost er as against nine new members recruited , which meant that we have a nett have a nett loss of eight from a hundred and four to the present total of ninety six . |
15 | England did n't quite make it in the Rugby World Cup but we did manage to fight rival bids from the likes of Sweden , Austria and Canada to host the prestigious Hair Olympics '94 . |
16 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |
17 | ‘ we did mean to live together , of course , but it ca n't be helped . |
18 | ‘ I can reveal that all the rivalry is just showbiz — we did decide to have these two rival team captains . ’ |
19 | At the present time and in er the public fund and the health committee we did decide to have a review after so I think that is actually in control I do n't think we should mess about with it any more at this point . |
20 | I in number one we did want to replace the word by erm reassures them because we that just for the strength of this . |
21 | In relation to erm the second erm erm motion erm we did want to add at the end that Her Majesty 's Inspector of Pollution incessantly environment |
22 | On the other hand we did want to keep it medieval looking on the inside , so what we did was we installed these Yorkshire sliding casement but on the inside as you can see at the top window , we put panel window . |
23 | Actually , saying that , sorry , we did start talking about the F B I . |
24 | When we did start playing proper gigs we got surprisingly good money . |
25 | We did stop apologising , did n't we ? ) |
26 | ‘ We did attempt to do that in the early stages , for example with Ascom Timeplex , but generally what 's happened is that the distribution relationships have been less than perfect , ’ explains Howard . |
27 | ‘ We did consider replacing Monty , but we had already shot half the movie , ’ said Dore Schary . |
28 | It was a thriving thing and , but when electric supply in nineteen forty eight went nationalized , we lost a lot of members and er , we did try to carry it on , just Ipswich Borough Transport . |
29 | But we did try damn it . |
30 | I wanted to double up all Wavebreaker 's standing rigging , just in case we did try to take her across the ocean . |