Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Luckily , Andy cottoned on to what I was trying to say and took the cradle to the top of the building , where we had to jump six feet on to the roof . |
2 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
3 | Although we did receive some sheet music , we mainly got tapes . |
4 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
5 | I , I would totally support the move that you 're suggesting Mr Chairman , if we are asked to provide another one percent or whatever can be done , erm , I would suggest that the obvious way to get that money would be to offer them the ten thousand that we agreed to spend this morning . |
6 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
7 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
8 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
9 | There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily . |
10 | It was interesting to listen to the comments after the game from the Radio 5 reporter who said that we 'd had enough chances to last us ‘ till Christmas , maybe it 'll make a few people sit up and recognise that we have a team capable of winning something this season . |
11 | On the other hand , no parent that we questioned voiced any suspicions with regard to their own children and they all seemed quite happy for them to attend his youth club . |
12 | Few people will dispute that that is largely a result of the legislation that we passed to reform industrial relations . |
13 | When our first Report on the primary stages was submitted to Mr Baker at the end of September 1988 , he felt that we had given insufficient emphasis to the teaching of grammar . |
14 | When we came overseas that metal trailer that we had had heavy wheels on it . |
15 | We never shifted from this , that we had to have some form of secure income that would protect those areas . |
16 | Ultimately we were given that assurance and er we were quite proud of the fact that , you know , the members had gone along with us on the proviso that we had got that principle you know , to establish . |
17 | We agreed to a limited extension on the basis that we would have to show the court that we had provided reasonable opportunity for the Department to consider the matter . |
18 | Which meant that we had to cart this coal from the wharf , take it to the client and put it in his coal house , you see ? |
19 | We then realized that we had to change that image , if you like to call it that , because we were n't really living normal lives any more . |
20 | These factors resulted in the decision that we needed to trim budgeted expenditure by about £114,000 and Council agreed to the measures proposed at their meeting in July . |
21 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
22 | It had become so difficult that we needed to help each other make it ; everyone who made it to Australia would win a trophy . |
23 | And er what was I going to tell you , I told you about , I talked about we had nine pawnbroker 's shops , I did n't did I , but that we did have nine pawnbroker shops in Ipswich . |
24 | ‘ I did n't pick Davis , we chose each other and decided a long time ago that we wanted to play this tournament together . |
25 | $850,000 — that 's half a mill more than we got to do Easy Rider . |
26 | ‘ We needed uplighters , but we did n't have a regular enough ceiling grid for low-voltage halogens , so we had to use high-frequency fluorescents . ’ |
27 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
28 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
29 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
30 | You can drive via 90-mile beach but it 's a rough road , so we decided to do this excursion as a day trip on a bus , and this proved good value . |