Example sentences of "but we did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we did recognize that in opening the southern bypass , it would have an effect on traffic pattern . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But we did manage to get the contract from him after . |
| 5 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 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 | It took an hour or more to jog along from Canonbury to Paddington , but we did reach the enchanted spot at last . |
| 8 | Or members who were n't here or but we did talk this through in some detail . |
| 9 | ‘ But we did stop off on the way for a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 10 | But we did mention this at the last meeting did n't we ? |
| 11 | Er and if he 'd of walked up to John two minutes later he probably would n't have made it because we had a right erm but we did feel there had to be some initials . |
| 12 | I would go further and say that we have kept it on the statute book already — there was an opportunity not to retain it during the passage of the emergency provisions Act , but we did retain it then . |
| 13 | " The next one can be yours , if this one is n't right , but we did agree to do it this way ; it was just luck it 's my answer first . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | erm no doubt there 'll be lots of inquests as to why and what and everything else but we did lose that and we lost it badly and from then onwards the outcome was pretty inevitable bearing in mind the erm views of the independent . |
| 16 | We did n't see any orchids but we did see some beautiful foxgloves and were lucky enough to catch sight of birds high above . |
| 17 | Not the best of subjects to inject a little bit of humour but we did find er traces of it nevertheless . |
| 18 | This is where there was n't an accident , thank God , but we did find |
| 19 | In summary , Mr Chairman , the overall mortality rate for disease , for T U R P , over the northern region was point three percent and this compares very well with the large published theories from America but we did find large inter-site variations for both mortality and major morbidity rates . |
| 20 | ‘ Not directly but we did find out that Inez had been getting letters with Spanish stamps . ’ |
| 21 | But we did have fun . |
| 22 | I grew up in an area that did n't have any live theatre to speak of , but we did have a local cinema house , and I was just in awe of this thing called the cinema . |
| 23 | But we did have a lot of fun . ’ |
| 24 | But we did have to wait until the chimpanzees completely accepted out presence before we were able to observe the other food-gathering behaviour that truly sets apart the forest chimpanzees — regular co-operative hunting . |
| 25 | But we did have a church near us , and that church had a school . |
| 26 | We did n't have an explosion but we did have a big fire . |
| 27 | But we did have this idea that the whole tribe went around together . |
| 28 | But we did have to boost up chlorine levels in areas , because they were n't high enough . |
| 29 | Very quick it was but we did have a nice bath did n't |
| 30 | Still waiting for a lot of the reports to come in , but we did have one winner on Guess the Scores this afternoon . |