Example sentences of "we did " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did a fortnight 's production which I enjoyed immensely . |
| 2 | We did Decadence in London and America together — and we 've made a film for Channel 4 television . |
| 3 | In every case , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , if we had not done what we did but something else the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 4 | ‘ The first time we did it , the stock check was programmed to call up everything , ’ Brown says . |
| 5 | We did n't see a lot of Father that year because he was in the Government . |
| 6 | Jenny reappeared soon enough and she suggested that we nip down the road to a little pâtisserie she knew , which of course we did . |
| 7 | Weeding , edging , mowing , prinking , pruning ; we did the lot . |
| 8 | If possible increase the size of any vaguely level area already there , as we did with the lawn . |
| 9 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 10 | ‘ You realise we did this on my last birthday ? |
| 11 | ‘ Last time we did this you were a kitten , ’ said Marina . |
| 12 | So we did this whole fury number : I was pissed as a fart , thankyou , Jamie , and I just threw the lot at her . |
| 13 | Odd how I pinned so much on getting her into bed , and when I did , after we did … |
| 14 | We did agree we 'd start before twelve . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We did n't get on . ’ |
| 16 | In fact we did find a clear difference between the three- and the four-year-olds : the younger ones typically pointed to the box with the chocolate and the older children to the empty box . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh do go on , ’ Harriet hovers above , laughing , ‘ it 's not as if we did n't all know how virtuous you feel . ’ |
| 18 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 19 | ‘ We did a lot of research , ’ Tuppen said . |
| 20 | Their enterprise began as a wholefood store — ‘ we had very little stock but all those years ago we did manage to get organic Basmati rice ’ — with a little tearoom at the back and a Malaysian feast once a week . |
| 21 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 22 | We did n't shout loud enough ; those who came left impressed , but kept quiet in order to preserve their own reputations . |
| 23 | Although we did n't try them , a selection of brushes is also available . |
| 24 | We did n't get any tea that day , but under the circumstances were quite forgiving . |
| 25 | We did not venture near the fields again until a friend with children came to spend a weekend . |
| 26 | We did n't like the food , we preferred Mum 's . |
| 27 | If the complete Porgy reveals anything , it is that Gershwin did not go straight from one hit to another ( as we did here , from ‘ Summertime ’ to ‘ A Woman is a Sometime Thing ’ ) . |
| 28 | ‘ We have to try to build on what we did in Australia because we have n't time to do anything else , ’ McGeechan said . |
| 29 | We did not agree to this on accession in 1972 , nor again in 1975 in the Referendum , nor in the acceptance of the Single European Act in 1986 . |
| 30 | ‘ We did not wish to create conditions which led to possible violence . ’ |