Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief . |
| 2 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 3 | She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it . |
| 4 | We 've kept it a secret up to now . |
| 5 | Well , we 've done it a couple of times before . |
| 6 | I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you . |
| 7 | We 've given them no bother as far the union is concerned — they 've had a free hand and we feel severely let down |
| 8 | It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really . |
| 9 | Look , we 've given it a try . |
| 10 | if we 've given ourselves a budget of four thousand pounds and we 've ear |
| 11 | ‘ We 've given ourselves a chance to finish in the top three , a tremendous achievement for a team that was tipped for relegation at the start of the season . |
| 12 | We 've made it a slimmer , and hopefully erm more cost effective , structure . |
| 13 | And now we 've made it a fire door it 's made it worse . |
| 14 | and this chap said erm he said , I 'm sorry to trouble you we 've sent you an invitation to come to this building thing and I sa |
| 15 | ‘ I would be hesitant about forecasting a recovery for Pentos until we 've heard what the Budget brings in March , ’ commented William Cullum , retail analyst at Panmure Gordon . |
| 16 | We 've won it a couple of times have n't we ? |
| 17 | Curran reveals : ‘ We 've set ourselves a target of four clean sheets for the last four matches — if we can achieve that we 're certain of at least four points . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I think Kaiserslautern would regard themselves as favourites , but we 've watched them a lot and feel we can score against them , ’ he said . |
| 19 | We 've offered him a hostel — ’ she turned to me again , away from the dog — ‘ with a warden in charge , very suitable in his sort of case . |
| 20 | Sometimes er when especially the the er older element have been so delighted that we 've offered them an opportunity because everybody else has said they 're too old and after all this they 're getting really excited want to come and then they look so glum in the photographs |
| 21 | We 've never in the past looked in detail at the total work content to work out these time units , after all in the past , we 've known what the client wants , we 've been giving him it for years . |
| 22 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 23 | Now all I have to do is persuade you to sign a contract for a lot longer than six months , and we 've got ourselves a deal . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , just the one , I think , Mrs Padmore , ’ he replies drily , ‘ until we 've got ourselves a shade more sorted out . ’ |
| 25 | Anyway , we 've had it a lot have n't we ? |
| 26 | We had given them the prospect of an out in the five years and they did very well out of their investment . ’ |
| 27 | We have not just heard what the official Opposition have to say , or what the Government have said in the autumn statement ; we have heard what the Opposition 's opposition suggest , in the form of the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) . |
| 28 | We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk . |
| 29 | We have made him an offer but he 's not very keen . |
| 30 | We have named him the Redway Rapist ’ . |