Example sentences of "that we did " in BNC.
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| 1 | But dozens of representatives shouted ‘ Yes ’ when he recalled the European election campaign and asked them : ‘ Can any of us say in all honesty that we did everything we could ? ’ |
| 2 | Unless my recollection is at fault , it seems to be that two generations ago it was accepted in our society that we did not use firearms . |
| 3 | You 've got to ask yourself what they had that we did n't have . |
| 4 | ‘ He ca n't say that we did n't make an attempt . ’ |
| 5 | The men and women of the past saw the same physical universe that we did , but their way of seeing it was quite different ; their way of describing it in written form more different still . |
| 6 | It is precisely because he had many titles that we did not see agree , he and I. Voila . ’ |
| 7 | This is purely a reflection of the fact that we did n't clearly understand the cost of nuclear electricity ’ . |
| 8 | David had a couple of records out at the time and he sang all his songs in the show that we did . |
| 9 | I think this was due to the fact that we did n't have 9-to-5 jobs and we were entertainers and could n't possibly manage the £7 a week rent . |
| 10 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 11 | It infuriated both of us that we did n't feel able to dress as we liked , on the basis of comfort , without worrying about it . |
| 12 | ‘ We were just saying , ’ murmured Bromley , ‘ that we did n't expect any foreigners here . ’ |
| 13 | The Treaty of Rome , with the consent of the British people , was given force in this country by our EC Act of 1972 ; Brussels has no power to legislate for us that we did not give it . |
| 14 | This is not to say that we did n't experience all the anguish you expect in your schooldays , the pains of unpopularity or difficulties with hated subjects . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of the time we were so busy rushing the posters out that we did n't have time to read them or think about what they said , ’ said Mr Mark Roblett , 27 , the elder of the two brothers whose south London company came to the aid of both parties . |
| 16 | ‘ When we heard that some might be communists we decided that we did n't have to take any notice of them anyway . |
| 17 | Wendy and I had decided that we did not want to remain in Wolverton , if we could go to one of the more interesting towns nearby . |
| 18 | ‘ You have to realise , ’ he said , ‘ that we did n't think in terms of a Jewish state and an Arab state . |
| 19 | A Dorset village boy was sent ‘ to a very old man ’ to be taught to read , but learnt little : the old man stood ‘ facing the window , puffing away at his pipe , and when we would ask him to explain anything that we did not understand , he would tell us that he watched the chimneys to see when other people lit their fires … . ’ |
| 20 | As to Mr. Cox himself , we obtained very little information that we did not already have , although perhaps a bit more detailed . |
| 21 | ‘ Not that we did n't check on Elsie , as much as we could … ’ |
| 22 | It was plain then that we did not much like the French way . |
| 23 | ‘ Besides that we did not do too badly ’ said Sanderson . |
| 24 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 25 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 26 | ( Clearly , it is high time in this essay that we did just that ! ) |
| 27 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | And if we can , do we learn anything that we did not know already ? |
| 30 | When somebody suggested , early in the LP era , that eventually all the old 78s we knew — and possibly many that we did n't — would one day be transferred to the new medium , he was answered by the shaking of heads . |