Example sentences of "[vb past] we [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin Murray , administration manager of the hostel , said ‘ The idea came from Carolyn who proposed we adopt a special school and Warren School was the most local . |
| 2 | Says Payne : ‘ We found we had a tremendous amount in common , a real northern European outlook with people from the Pacific rim , Siberia or the Russian heartlands . |
| 3 | ‘ Allowing for the generation gap , we found we had a surprising amount in common . |
| 4 | ‘ As it became more difficult to find suitable premises for classes , Kay Evans advised us to become a national Society under the umbrella of the Central Council of Physical Recreation . |
| 5 | The weather , being much better than expected , allowed us to take a gentle stroll and some light refreshment . |
| 6 | ‘ We collected 30 bags of rubbish in one day , and realised we had a serious problem , ’ he says ‘ From then on I decided to blitz the village a couple of days every week . |
| 7 | and it meant we had a regular rehearsal space — which we used nearly every day . |
| 8 | ‘ After the man involved died we paid a large lump sum to his — ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I felt we played a little bit like an end of season game and did n't work for each other . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We felt we had a good chance and thought we presented our case well . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Ah , but I knew we had a first-class lifeguard on board . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 13 | We knew we had a tough target to go for . |
| 14 | I thought we had a net list for them . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought we had a good chance of tracing the Spidex people through London . |
| 16 | Well we thought the tyre was down now , thought we had a flat tyre . |
| 17 | Er we thought we could work to it and we thought we had a different rule for timekeeping er and we did n't check the calculations . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a competition I thought we had a realistic chance of winning . |
| 19 | Cantona being the more obvious example , but I cant remember one sale where I thought we got a decent price . |
| 20 | I thought we needed a single person as a sort of … catalyst . |
| 21 | But why did we get a reasonable result for the electric field ? |
| 22 | ‘ Annie , did we have a good childhood ? ’ |
| 23 | Fortunately , when I did we maintained a perfect climbing attitude , I completed my mission , during which I spent sometime thinking about the young airman who had done the daily inspection of the instruments , and had left the auto pilot engaged . |
| 24 | they came and they said we had a free booking . |
| 25 | And then it was oh we did n't , you know , you had a free sample at Cadburys , oh , I said we got a free sample from Jaguar , we got some walnut veneer which is , I suppose , half Cadburys |
| 26 | Yeah but they said we ca n't charge you for it he said we sell a new tube or sell you a new tyre he said we can charge you but we ca n't charge you labour . |
| 27 | In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere . |
| 28 | Collie Curran is n't one for taking solace in moral victories , but he said : ‘ Had we had a full team it would certainly have been much closer . |
| 29 | This led us to undertake a principal components transformation of the seven bands of image data , which gave encouraging results similar to those obtained by Forster ( 1985a ) . |
| 30 | Ads on the subways asked us to call a confidential hotline if we knew what crimes our local school board was committing . |