Example sentences of "we did [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yes really it 's just supporting or confirming what Mr said , which we did as part of the Southern Ryedale Local Plan , we contacted British Rail , and they were not averse to the reopening of stations on the York Scarborough line , providing they were funded by private investment .
2 And , again no doubt rightly , we need no more have illusions about the motives of those leading the coalition than we did about Stalin , Churchill or Roosevelt — the second world war analogy .
3 We did of course have problems : the concrete for the foundations arrived an hour early , and caught us frantically putting in the underslab insulation ; the existing house was about three inches out of square ; and the bricks we wanted were out of production .
4 although we did of course have that disastrous trio , that came to blows two years ago .
5 I 'm sure we did of course but there 's no reason why if we get on that we should n't start another one okay .
6 Despite our progress , no satisfactory way of countering the Morton book the way we did with Lady Colin Campbell 's has yet presented itself .
7 I mean anybody who 'd do a stupid song like fookin' , er … what 's the one we did with Karl Denver called ?
8 ‘ I would n't use the word ‘ sacked ’ to describe what we did with Chris .
9 We did with Martin and Kim did n't we ?
10 Let us try to reduce it to a set of propositions as we did with extract ( 2 ) .
11 Sometimes you have to fail to become a winner and we did with League Cup final defeats to Leeds and Swindon .
12 People forget the singing potatoes we did for Smiths Crisps .
13 Yeah well all we did for Ormskirk was , it was just an O S map and we just drew a bloody great circle round it
14 ‘ And these must be fulfilled ’ ( a banker 's way of saying what we did for Brazil we can do for you ) .
15 It is the same kind of calculation as we did for haemoglobin , and it produces a similarly large result .
16 One way is to use two factors , rather in the way that we did for documents , and these two factors will be called ‘ participation ’ and ‘ control ’ .
17 Let us try to account for the ( most probable ) different interpretations of bank in the way that we did for car .
18 This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there .
19 We have won the City 's support to raise the money , as we did for Staley and our other North American acquisitions — and as we would have done if we had been allowed to buy British Sugar . ’
20 We wished to compare those living in the same areas ( as we did for arrest rates ) and decided to exclude areas with less than 10 per cent .
21 We broke the back of it a lot on the work that we did for Rickmansworth .
22 ‘ Well , the first record we did for RCA , it was literally a long hallway .
23 You have three days to do what we say , otherwise we 'll do to your father what we did to Valesio .
24 ‘ I feel tremendously guilty about what we did to Shaun .
25 Even though forest lumped the ball in the air to rosario more than we did to chapman when we last played them .
26 Think back to the stuff we did on memory , a little and often is a good way of trying to remember things Okay , it 's useful if you 've covered topic areas to actually think about writing essays about questions that you think about to get you used to the style and time s scale of actually dealing with exams .
27 ‘ Well , I do n't want to do … what we did on Sunday . ’
28 ‘ You do n't want to do what we did on Sunday , do you not , you prim little Victorian ?
29 If we play like we did on Wednesday night we have n't got a problem .
30 Sometimes I get confused between work and socialising , especially when we spend our off-duty time discussing what we did on duty .
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