Example sentences of "what we did [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So we could maybe do what we did last time .
2 Well we 'll have a look back in , I 'll have a look back in the file and see what we did last time .
3 But of course this was inevitably what we did do .
4 What we did do , is we contacted the D D T S.
5 Three point one okay so this is where the model , in effect what we 've done which is a very crude way , right , of erm incorporating exogamous influences , right , we have n't said tha that the war is going to affect the income or price elasticity what we did do , right , all that we 're doing is that we 're allowing the intercept of our model to change , right , now as a result , we 've got , we can prove the st the statistical significance of all the variables in our model , right , the co the actual coefficients that we 've estimated have changed quite significant , particularly in the er the incoming elasticity , right , the incoming elasticity was less than one , right , and insignificance before was now greater than one and height of R squared has also increased dramatically our measure of explanatory power .
6 What we did do
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 There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard .
9 Neither did we know anything of the controversy at high levels over the relative merits of area versus precision bombing , but what we did notice was that during the winter of 1943/44 , morale amongst the aircrews was not exactly at its highest level .
10 However this convenient explanation of his style bore no relation to what we did know about O's past life with other men .
11 What we did find was nothing " Funny , " Seddon said .
12 When his father remonstrated with him and refused to believe that the respectable staff of the Sunday School had put any such nonsense in his head , the wee boy protested : ‘ But if I told you what we did learn about Moses and the Red Sea , you 'd never believe me . ’
13 What we did learn in a month , and that was very essential was milk .
14 We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it .
15 What we did have difficulty was er with an odd occasion where a man was on the verge of being dismissed .
16 No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket , what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a , a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle , well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers , so that we could pump water out of the little well , so that we could have soft water for doing the washing , rainwater , otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the , out in the yard to get your water for washing .
17 Well we enjoyed what we did did n't we ?
18 If you feel comfortable going in second one of these and these alone , that 's fine by him do what we did come in the first place , you can go in , take your briefcase pop it down there , this says to them , this is where I 'm gon na work from , is that okay with you ?
19 That 's right , Bolton won five nil but what we did get clarified from the Football League today was if two English teams finish their four games on the same number of points , is it goal difference or is it the number of goals scored that is the crucial factor ?
20 Well that 's what we did to get this far
21 What we did say did n't encourage them to chat as we 'd always turn the conversation round to why they were keeping us like this .
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