Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] we did " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a boy at school who was deaf , but he could read lips so we did n't have to shout . |
| 2 | ‘ We sent money home to our mothers and brothers and we did n't care if we did n't have a social life . |
| 3 | The first time we went out was to the pictures and we did n't say a word to each other all night . |
| 4 | But we have to do it , they 'd be absolutely down on us like a ton of bricks if we did n't . |
| 5 | We never starved and we were healthy kids but we did n't get any pocket money , there was none to spare . |
| 6 | She closed her eyes as we did this as if she could not bear the spectacle of herself , a helpless , groaning hulk , being rolled about the bed . |
| 7 | Latest figures show that TODAY now sells 101,347 more copies than we did this time last year . |
| 8 | Joan picked up a lot of little incidentals that we did n't pick up . |
| 9 | It is precisely because he had many titles that we did not see agree , he and I. Voila . ’ |
| 10 | Er and we shared the common objective that these minutes would have to be scrutinized purposefully because if there was any element er in any of the minutes that we did n't disagree with , then we would point it out to the management and had a redraft and have a signed redraft er by the secretary and the convenor , which meant that er at least we were all talking with a common voice . |
| 11 | This showed that the conditions in space were unusual and that unusual chemical processes were taking place , and they were then producing molecules that we did n't expect . |
| 12 | Those messages like ‘ Little boys do n't cry ’ , ‘ Keep a stiff upper lip ’ and ‘ Maintain a brave face ’ make it very difficult to describe experiences where we did not feel in control and did not appear invulnerable . |
| 13 | By the very nature of our work , we Met girls knew many more of the air crews than we did of the ground staff . |
| 14 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 15 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 16 | We could save a lot on costumes if we did that . |
| 17 | Possibly the latter was due to our handling of it — we were accustomed to pressing woollen garments to within an inch of their lives and we did much the same to our synthetic garments . |
| 18 | During the first few days people left their houses for fear of being bombed by Pippo , but quite soon he became part of our lives and we did n't bother about him any more . |
| 19 | I 'm gon na pull out the minutes cos we did have a meeting , we had a meeting at which was present and that 's how we defined it |
| 20 | ‘ We 'd have half the police force here in a few minutes if we did , ’ she said . |
| 21 | As a result of the recent excavations , however , we know a great deal more about the 12th-century buildings than we did before . |
| 22 | Now , have n't you got questions on bearings that we did , have n't you , and notes on it ? |
| 23 | Yes , yes , it , it hit , it hit us dreadfully yes , yes and you , you would 've , this er chappie who showed us slides , he showed us erm er you know the soup kitchens that we did erm they did and I think the Guilds ' women were involved with that you know . |
| 24 | ‘ We would not be living up to our responsibilities if we did not listen to ordinary party members . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Our tool kit has been built up over many years and we did n't have to buy much : a long tape measure , a new pickaxe handle , some new screwdriver bits ( we lost one down the cavity ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Darling Ruth , if you do n't know how I feel about you now , you never will , but now is n't the time for us to make rash statements as we did in Seville . |
| 29 | We did some of the old songs and Carl wrote a few things that we did new . |
| 30 | Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did . |