Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |
| 32 | as far as the committee was concerned there is they 've taken a decision on the preferred route , but we did as I 've just referred to in the earlier work , er we did assess that erm and that showed again er that the traffic would n't transfer from the A sixty one onto a southern bypass and a inner northern relief road . |
| 33 | We did lose four equity partners along the way and had to borrow £300,000 to repay their capital accounts , but , with a turnover of around £2m , we did not consider it a problem . ’ |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | This saved us hours of back-breaking work ( though we did lose some concrete in odd places ) . |
| 36 | Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped . |
| 37 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 38 | And we , I think we did take some with us did n't we ? |
| 39 | Oh , what I told you before was quite true — we did argue all the time . |
| 40 | We did encounter one organisation , again in engineering , which appeared to invest quite heavily In the training of persons it was recruiting on a temporary basis . |
| 41 | We did put one more record together with Bob Clearmountain , ‘ Into The Fire ’ , and that 's when I said , ‘ That 's it , I do n't really want to be hands-on any more . ' ’ |
| 42 | I think a , every so often it 'll be very interesting , very sort of , we did try this once did n't we ? |
| 43 | The main thing was that we were picking up a lot of hawking know-how , even if we did look ridiculous . |
| 44 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 45 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Yes , we did see another whale — or rather , Walter said he thought he did . |
| 48 | We did use black paper , but it looked terrible and attracted graffiti , so then we thought of fine art . |
| 49 | Point six means that wh just to remind you that when we had the sales conference we did promise these |
| 50 | We did know that , at least . |
| 51 | In all the years that The End magazine was printed in Liverpool , we never received a single letter about ‘ trainers ’ in America , but we did get hundreds about the training shoes the different football crews were wearing . |
| 52 | So if we did get Three out of four chances we get a blue . |
| 53 | But it , it did and , and I think there again a little bit of Guild influence because when er we were at meetings we would say , well what are you going to do about the er drapery you know and eventually we did get this better erm you know , drapery . |
| 54 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 55 | The concrete silos that form the view from the airport are not too attractive , but La Rochelle itself and its restaurants in the little streets near the harbour are lovely , although we did get wet during a torrential downpour after dinner . |
| 56 | Mind you , we did get some funny people coming into the shop . |
| 57 | We did get some sales , but actually it felt like we were giving the series away . |
| 58 | We did get some rates from Glasgow did n't we ? |
| 59 | If the worst came to the worst and we did get another president , I would do it , but I 'd rather have a break for a little while . |
| 60 | We could reject it at once , just as we might reject a deal which we did riot like . |