Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a bit we let go of each other . |
| 2 | We did think about this point last night . |
| 3 | Yeah we did talk about that . |
| 4 | Thirty seconds is to produce a film that 's a long time we did talk about seven second slots as well |
| 5 | Now we did go through dramatic exercises in the nineteen sixties , erm where we entered into a three year agreement er on wages settlement at national level . |
| 6 | I , I , maybe before we start that , on the point of reductions , and I 'll ask both er , George and , and er , Jean and Mike to , to speak for the different political groups , as part of the P A G , erm , when we did go through this process , I , I mean it was very difficult for us as a P A G. |
| 7 | So we did suggest and I did believe your party to support erm , a process where we did consult with local people but we also took other factors into consideration . |
| 8 | I think we did speak about that , the offie but mostly it was just the little house , outside Mhm . |
| 9 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 10 | Erm if we actually look erm and I do n't know if we did introduce to all members Bryony who is my assistant and who works very largely on the programme with me and on the educational and events side , and is acting minute secretary while Judith is on maternity leave . |
| 11 | Now we did look for better things . |
| 12 | But we did look at that as er as an option . |
| 13 | ‘ Er , ’ Gurder said , ‘ we did look in all the rooms , did n't we ? ’ |
| 14 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 15 | ‘ We did ask for extra help for first-time buyers through the tax relief system and we are disappointed that this has not been given . |
| 16 | The last-night party , a hallowed Easter Course tradition , was studded with starts of the highest calibre ; we were richly entertained throughout the evening by acts that were all professional to the core , even if we did see through some of the flimsy disguises . |
| 17 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 18 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 19 | There was very little else we did have in those days . |
| 20 | Ah yes , I ask you about those , erm cos we did say at one time that we thought some of you were going to the half yearly Council meeting and pick them up there . |
| 21 | erm and how we do compare to other companies erm |
| 22 | That was n't music , but we had a good time … and then , I do n't know , we do talk about other things , particularly I suppose the kind of fixes we 're both in . " |
| 23 | I say you know , we do talk to each other as police officers and talking to the lads who work the flats , from when they were busy to you know , now it 's on the you know , I think what , there 's about three hundred people is there ? |
| 24 | But I 'm also very anxious that we receive a full percentage whack of those profits and as you can see I , over the years , I 've been very assiduous in ensuring that we do move towards that position . |
| 25 | Yes , we do go for qualified staff , er , I 'm talking about social work field staff now , er , wherever possible we would go for that . |
| 26 | But we do go through those kind of phases . |
| 27 | Contrary to what the course books say , we do distinguish between familiar and formal modes of address in English , between tu and usted . |
| 28 | But the talks themselves may mean that some leading blacks and some powerful whites in Africa know that we do depend upon each other . |
| 29 | If we do think in this unilinear way , we will be inclined to dismiss or devalue evidence that is important for our understanding of language history , just as some of our predecessors have done . |
| 30 | Basically what if we do increase to that price . |