Example sentences of "[vb past] we [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to do a lot of testing with Precisions but we found we just could n't hear the differences between different strings ; Music Mans seem to almost accentuate the differences , which is what we want . |
| 2 | And we found we just were were wasting our time . |
| 3 | The actor Paul Blake and his wife Kate , who are friends of ours , have two young daughters and Abi and I found we really enjoyed their company . |
| 4 | When this occurred we usually dived into the nearest tenement to hide . |
| 5 | Faced with the threat it posed we somehow managed to break free of the old categories . |
| 6 | yeah we ate we right enjoyed it |
| 7 | The quiet despair showed we still abide by the old maxim ( written by an American , actually ) about when the great scorer comes he cares not who won or lost but how you played the game . |
| 8 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 9 | He would even throw chairs , and when this happened we quickly made for the exit . |
| 10 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 11 | I THOUGHT it was terrific when David JoHansen of the New York Dolls delivered such quips a : ‘ Who cares about the music when one has such sense of drama ? ’ and , ‘ We do n't play too good but we can dance as bad as we want , ’ and ‘ We do n't hold concerts — we throw parties ! ’ , and ‘ It does n't bother us when people say that we ca n't play , when we met we actually could n't , ’ etc , etc , but all these sweeping statements were launched in 1973 , and when those same epigrams are repeated three years later by lesser mortals ( i.e. Sex Pistols , Runaways , Ramones and Kiss ) , things begin to look synthetic . |
| 12 | It was only half way back to Darlington that we realised we never had learned why Bobby Orton walked off against Burnhope . |
| 13 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ At first he did n't believe us but when he realised we really had found a baby and came back with us to have a look . ’ |
| 15 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 16 | I decided we better call you chief foreman stevedore , and that 's what they call me , chief foreman , so that 's what they call 'em today , chief foreman stevedore . |
| 17 | John : ‘ When we started we just wrote Fall songs all the time . ’ |
| 18 | How the fire started we just do n't know . |
| 19 | When I started we only had about five per cent of the biscuit trade . |
| 20 | According to these employers it was teachers who needed WE more than pupils , so that they could get a picture of what engineering was really like ( as opposed to media misrepresentations — strikes , redundancies , etc. ) and so put across a ‘ good image ’ of engineering , hopefully attracting the ‘ brighter pupils ’ into the industry . |
| 21 | the only thing in a tent is that , you 've got somewhere to lock your money up , in it ? , your passport and that , although when we went we just left our passports and money in the tent , but I would n't do that now |
| 22 | Fortunately an adept four-minute tyre change and an elastic band — to give some resilience to full throttle — meant we only lost three minutes on that section . |
| 23 | When a chance came up to do them early we took it , although it meant we only had nine working days to fit in with Magnox Shutdown . |
| 24 | At the far end was St. Giles Church — which meant we never had an excuse for being late anywhere as the bells tolled the hour — and the quarters — right through the night |
| 25 | ‘ It meant we never had to say ‘ no ’ to anything a fashion editor asked of us , ’ Moira joked . |
| 26 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 27 | However , I felt we still needed more trials so that I could prove without doubt that my inch loss theory worked . |
| 28 | At that point we knew we probably had the makings of a hit . |
| 29 | As his confidence grew we carefully started to build a player able to play for the others . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought we just established that it was time to start back ? ’ |