Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | $850,000 — that 's half a mill more than we got to do Easy Rider . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The point was to create first-time theatre-goers , so we tried to target poorer areas on the whole . ’ |
| 11 | Everyone was so encouraged , once we 'd done one part and realised how good it looked . |
| 12 | I told them that at one we 'd be going away on another job cos we 'd got another job booked in , but in fact I reorganized everything so that in fact we could do it for them . |
| 13 | Well , up until we 'd received this letter from er the new chairman designate , er Bob Reid , not seriously at all . |
| 14 | Put more starkly , with the current caseload and an intake of 50,000 new applications this year , even if we managed to exceed last year 's output we would still have at least two years work in hand . ’ |
| 15 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 16 | ‘ If we had made political statements , Asterix would be too French . |
| 17 | If we had made different choices , we might have different industries , different types of towns and a different countryside . |
| 18 | ‘ If we had to wait three months for this money , then fill in a new form to open a different account , just like a new investor in fact , it would not be a bad idea to see if any other society was offering a better rate than the 8.85 per cent offered by ‘ Prime Gold ’ . |
| 19 | If we had selected different base categories , we could have ended up with negative values of d . |
| 20 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 21 | If we had tried ten years ago to do what we are doing now , we would be dead . ’ |
| 22 | If we had included more papers in the sample the coverage might have appeared more dense , but nevertheless it is clear that it is a minority of unusual cases which get most press exposure . |
| 23 | If we had paid more attention to what the Japanese were doing we would perhaps not be so subject to their products as we are . |
| 24 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 25 | Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa . |
| 26 | ‘ If we had shown any form at all outside Anfield we would be up amongst the leaders . |
| 27 | ‘ We would not , I believe , if we had had that situation , have had the strength to deal with the Falklands , with Iraq and with the economic difficulties that we had in the early 1980s , ’ he said . |
| 28 | If we had found good reason to say no , to the first question , there are implications for how we say no to the second question . |
| 29 | Now this is a a sort of cost benefit benefit analysis based on what would have happened if we 'd followed these protocols ourselves . |
| 30 | I would imagine that if we 'd suggested that project engineering duties would beco |