Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved fast back up the stairs , along the passage and back down into the lobby of the Regal Arms , trying not to run . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd both grown up a bit , that 's all . |
| 3 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 4 | In January we 'd also dug up the Hartlepudlian legend of the Mass Frying Pan Burial . |
| 5 | We 'd better fix up a drip to replace the blood that 's leaking into his body . ’ |
| 6 | We 'd better think up an excuse . |
| 7 | It was , therefore , with a certain displeasure , that I received , one Friday evening , Nigel 's announcement that he had been sent details of a converted mill in Wales and we 'd better drive up the next morning to take a look at it . |
| 8 | ‘ We did not pick up the fact he had died . |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't want to trouble this family for any longer , but if we did not follow up every ‘ not known at this address ’ , we would have a short poll tax register . ’ |
| 10 | after three or four years they thought they might move so , we said well take out a P S P cos that provides a savings vehicle , and if you do move you can use that as part of the mortgage increase . |
| 11 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 12 | This we did — by which time we had both calmed down a little . |
| 13 | Other colleagues working in schools or adult training centres from our authority were also asked to participate , as together we had previously set up a voluntary curriculum development group to look at authority-wide provision for young people and adults with severe learning difficulties . |
| 14 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 15 | And the other members of the staff who are joining us had better put in an appearance soon , do n't you think ? ’ |