Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that er we are probably some years of and therefore whilst we make indulge our service in the next few moments it each other er we are eventually and then perhaps going through a convenient route er and thrashing out some sort of profit margin . |
| 2 | When we want do it Independently , |
| 3 | Erm , we did tell him that obviously he 'd |
| 4 | Well I presume it 's something like that , do you remember it was an absolute dead loss when we went before erm and we did tell them so . |
| 5 | But if we did meet it would have to be on my terms . |
| 6 | We did admire your survival of the Weymouth weekend , and hope the Caribbean trip is or will be a tremendous success . |
| 7 | Er and if he 'd of walked up to John two minutes later he probably would n't have made it because we had a right erm but we did feel there had to be some initials . |
| 8 | ‘ We did give him this massive bouquet , though , ’ said Debi . |
| 9 | Erm , there 's a question of a rally in Central Hall , now in order to organise this pensioner 's rally there short of funds , erm , I think the executive will be discussing this and as , as before we did give them quite a considerable donating , because it costs a thousand pounds to hire the centre hall and we do want to erm take part in a very big rally , like the last one was . |
| 10 | And indeed we did give them an an undertaking er that that would be done . |
| 11 | Because of course we did put er these proposals , most of these proposals until we 've had to erm at the board meeting er and we did give them full publicity in the Cambridge Evening News a couple of weeks ago . |
| 12 | I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the |
| 13 | Actually we did press him a bit and he gave the usual reasons . |
| 14 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 15 | However , play then we did and , heaven be praised , we did show them a thing or two . |
| 16 | However , if we worshipped a goddess who lived on Snowdon and adored strawberries , then non-practical , noneconomic ideas might dictate that we did grow them on the mountain top . |
| 17 | Now , last year in defeating Wider Democracy we did leave ourselves er , in limbo somewhat , with regard to the sectional , industrial conferences . |
| 18 | We did offer him some ice cream but he said no thank you . |
| 19 | We did make we did make this point to Keith actually very very clearly , |
| 20 | We did make them promise No Guns . ’ |
| 21 | Towards the end of our trip , we did make it to Karakul , a day 's journey be jeep , to film a rare Central Asian gull , the brownheaded gull . |
| 22 | We did make it to a boozer afterwards , though , and we all agreed it was worth making a note of for future reference . |
| 23 | We did miss them in the final , but the other girls responded magnificently , so we got through by 12–11 in the end . ’ |
| 24 | They sent they sent 'em out from er , Abbey National and we had to pay , well we did pay 'im fifty pound , people that put the building on paid . |
| 25 | ‘ But you 're right , we did bluff our way through almost everything . |
| 26 | I would go further and say that we have kept it on the statute book already — there was an opportunity not to retain it during the passage of the emergency provisions Act , but we did retain it then . |
| 27 | We did do something . |
| 28 | No exactly but I think prior to that , we did do what you 're suggesting , we did go round all the areas , Dick , myself and Malcolm and Chris , walked round all the areas , told told the people what needed tidying up to go in the it was before we had the racking up by the way so it was more messy |
| 29 | Sir Ranulph , said : ‘ I 'm amazed that we did do it … |
| 30 | and I said to Neil look if we did do it it would be anonymous anyway you stupid dick . |