Example sentences of "we did [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we evolved from the general fashion side , which is still as important to us , but the reason that we did probably evolve in in the the wedding side is because of th the need for us , it was n't us who pushed it from our end , more and more brides came to us , so therefore we grew . |
| 2 | We did nearly get it through once did n't we , years ago ? |
| 3 | ‘ We did both love exposing the bogus and pretentious . |
| 4 | ‘ We did rather wonder what had happened to you , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 5 | Now , even in it took us some , some time to get the situation under control but we did eventually get it under control but , as I say , not without a lot of misgivings and very very strong complaints from the public at large . |
| 6 | ‘ We did well to battle our way back after twice being a goal behind , ’ said Crosby , relieved to end a dismal run of six consecutive away league defeats . |
| 7 | I think we did well to wait until now do you ? |
| 8 | I think we did well to buy bread |
| 9 | They 've had some good results themselves recently ( thanks to Chappie ) , and we did well to avoid dropping points . |
| 10 | We , when we introduced the community care element , looking at the budget earlier in the day , we did also refer to the Audit Commission report on that , and again it is quite clear from the Audit Commission report , that it remains a government expectation that we will continue to review our provision , that we will compare it as is done in this paper , with others and particularly the independent sector , and an expectation that we will rationalize where necessary , and hence the proposals over the period of time , that are in your budget package for reviewing and rationalizing only . |
| 11 | We did also observe libraries in which quiet reading was demanded and in which leisure reading was being promoted . |
| 12 | We did also point out er the advertising budget would be reviewed . |
| 13 | We did however need some heavy tools , which we hired : a concrete mixer for a month , an angle grinder , a vibrator for compressing the hardcore , and trestles . |
| 14 | We did however receive a £400 special grant from the Art Inspector , which I imagine is connected with the review … bought two sewing machines ( swing needle ) for textile work , creative embroidery , and sewing costumes for giant puppets . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The only time I can remember him with any coat at all was when we wintered him out as a three or four-year old , which we did deliberately to toughen him up . ’ |
| 16 | Oh we did actually do |
| 17 | Well it 's a both a fortunate and unfortunate circumstance as a result of the by-out a sorry as a result of the floatation we cut a great many costs which reduced our taxable profits but at the same time we did actually pay some divides and we 've also pay some dividends here in last year anyway . |
| 18 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 19 | We did actually play football with Stuart round there . |
| 20 | We did actually have er , it 's a , I think what it might be we had a lady who came to brought her son , mind , her son 's thirty odd and they did the singing for us . |
| 21 | Yes I was just going to respond to Mr because we did actually discuss horse riding er o on the bridleway network along the footpath and er well I do hope that what Mr has said felt that he had has considering condoning people riding horses on the footpath are breaking the law . |
| 22 | we did actually try as part of those tests although not reflected in that particular figure , er moving it to see whether we could encourage that er a different effect . |
| 23 | Quite a bit there er when you lay it out like that in a pattern a thought pattern which shows just how much er we did actually get through er from where you started at ten in the morning or just after with the presentation right through to the second presentation . |
| 24 | And then erm one afternoon we went in a dug out canoe erm to look for crocodiles and we did actually see them on the banks of the river as we were going down in our canoe , so that was quite exciting . |
| 25 | I think if we if we if we did actually look around long and hard rather than superficially at what we 've got out in the yard , then it 's ever so easy to criticize . |
| 26 | We did if I can give some background we did actually target er twelve thousand , five hundred mailer shots for this meeting this evening I 'm not sure what the people here are representing percentage for that and we also targeted over about a hundred organisations with mailing shots telling people the meetings on this evening . |
| 27 | We did once did n't we ? |
| 28 | City boss Brian Horton said : ‘ I thought we did enough to deserve a point on our second half display . |
| 29 | Moreover that we did much long to see you , the need we have to use you did provoke our hasty sending . |
| 30 | 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 |