Example sentences of "and we did " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are judges who accept ‘ no grovelling on the part of prisoners ’ , even those who play on having a relative in the RUC ( and we did come across a policeman who believed that his brother had been treated leniently in court as a result of this connection with the force ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ I told him casually , ‘ And we did Ipsarion on Tuesday . |
| 3 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll go , ’ I said , and we did . |
| 5 | You can , up to a point ( and we did up to that point ) , protect yourself against them with jungle gels and mustard gases , but the trees give no mercy and there are hours of them between Staddajakkstugorna , a mountain hut on the side of Kapasluoppal , and Staloluokta . |
| 6 | Divers worked around the fjord and we did absolutely nothing , and said almost less . |
| 7 | We were the second crew on the scene and we did not leave the crash site all day . ’ |
| 8 | We had a double bass , tea chest/broom handle/gut and a ukelele , and we did ‘ Gambling Man ’ and ‘ Cumberland Gao ’ and a few of the old Lonnie Donegan things , and that was David 's first public appearance , on the Isle of Wight . |
| 9 | I must admit I really enjoyed working with him , and we did tracks like ‘ The Laughing Gnome ’ and I have to say , I am one of the gnomes on that record and am responsible for some of the terrible jokes on it as well . |
| 10 | I took David Bowie and one or two of the other students to the BBC and we did it . |
| 11 | People wanted it and it seemed to be the right thing to do — and we did it . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 13 | And we did n't go to see him . |
| 14 | Jordi seemed frightened , and we did not stay for long . |
| 15 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 16 | ‘ And we did n't want to see a team of scriptwriters messing around with our characters . |
| 17 | We ended up in the desert and we did not even see the same mirage . |
| 18 | Our own recording efforts were concentrated on species , and we did not usually attempt to record vegetation . |
| 19 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
| 20 | A Welsh smallholder quarryman moved into the family farm so that his wife could go out to earn as a washerwoman , but the children did not get on well with their step-grandmother : ‘ There was a very hard side to her , she was a very stern woman , and we did n't like her . ’ |
| 21 | And we did n't know what to make of The Butler Window , a landmark in Zilker Park . |
| 22 | At first it all seemed dreadfully wrong and we did what our family always do in such situations ; we were facetious . |
| 23 | And we did . |
| 24 | The local weather forecaster had told me we 'd get rain and we did . |
| 25 | ‘ After a time demand just kept growing and growing and we did n't have the finance to boost production to keep pace with it . |
| 26 | And we did require and demand and obtain from the Treasury a great deal of information before we would allow , as it were , any decision to be made . |
| 27 | And we did ; from nine o'clock in the morning to eight at night , six days a week . |
| 28 | But we had and we did . |
| 29 | If we missed anything on the beat , even sunken flags in the roadway — and we did n't report them , we 'd get a report back wanting to know why . |
| 30 | But it was a great nuisance , anyway , and we did not suffer in silence . |