Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 2 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 3 | I spoke to the mayor and we decided to give them a proper Christian burial in the village cemetery . |
| 4 | We 're so sure about the reliability of our washing machines that we 've given them a full 5-year parts guarantee . |
| 5 | Is it because we 've given them a different have we already used a pot up ? |
| 6 | But we 've given him a thorough going over and I 'm sure it 's nothing more serious than a mild concussion . |
| 7 | LAUGHTER is the best medicine and over the last two weeks we hope we 've given you a real tonic with our |
| 8 | We 've amused ourselves a little bit by putting William 's initials on there and the arms of his wife who was called Joan . |
| 9 | We 've won ourselves a new world . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've got you a wee bungalow , ’ said Dr Reid , adding with a touch of pride , ‘ Two bedrooms . ’ |
| 11 | I ju I mean , it , now it 's just getting me , more depressed than nowt else , I mean , I just wish that they 'd phone and say yeah , we 've got you a insured . |
| 12 | Well we 've had it a long time do n't know how long it lasts . |
| 13 | Okay so we 've got s we 've , we 've discussed it a little while , we 've already got some , I mean you 're more clever at crimes than I have really . |
| 14 | A day or two later Anthony Rouse and I were astonished to hear that her agents were demanding the interview be withdrawn because , as she complained in a letter to the BBC 's Director General , Hugh Carleton-Greene , we had given her a solemn undertaking over lunch not to mention the matter of Wells and their son at all . |
| 15 | ‘ We have sent him a loyal birthday telegram in exile , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Sounds an exciting trip , really fabulous trip , and it will mean of course , seeing you will be li live on air , that we have to give you a little audition , so the finalists , have to be prepared to do an audition with me , live on air , just before Christmas . |
| 17 | Addressing the Institute of Housing in 1989 , the Junior Minister of Housing said of housing associations : ‘ We have given them a vital job to do . |
| 18 | We have allowed ourselves a little licence with the sauce , ’ Angelina explained . |
| 19 | They said , ’ We have got you a good deal . |
| 20 | We have got you a blind date … ’ |
| 21 | Here we need to ask ourselves a whole range of questions associated with the ways in which staff are managed in general and about the ways in which appraisal will be managed in the future — for there are choices to be made there in particular . |
| 22 | We need to challenge ourselves , to move ourselves on , but we need to give ourselves a safe framework in which to do so . |
| 23 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |