Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got told that that laser of oil can cut through concrete just like that . |
| 2 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 3 | We 'd hoped that such irritations were behind us , but then they started taking toothpaste and soap away from us after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've proven that horizontal wells can have a major impact in the economics of Gulf of Mexico field developments . ’ |
| 5 | Just to remind everybody that we 've decided that this year we were n't going to put pressure on people . |
| 6 | We 've said that free elections are our goal and they 're in June . |
| 7 | When the conversation turned to sex the interviewer asked , ‘ We 've heard that some women who ordinarily have difficulty achieving orgasm find themselves capable of multiple orgasms under LSD . |
| 8 | I think we 've reviewed that this morning , early and we are doing quite well on forms , but do we need any further action on that ? |
| 9 | They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things . |
| 10 | We 've found that own brands are from thirty five pence up to the top quality brands are something like eighty five pence and we feel we 've hit the market in the middle there . |
| 11 | A spokesman for Ford said : ‘ We had hoped that lower interest rates and the Budget would help , but we reckon now that sales will be only slightly above last year 's levels . ’ |
| 12 | We had observed that older people in the area seemed to die like flies in the winter from heart attacks and cold-related illnesses and we were confident that it was the inside of our houses that were killing them , not the outside . |
| 13 | We clerks might have found comfort if we had known that many floors above us a few of the bank 's more senior personnel were smuggling personal computers into the building in a bid to free themselves . |
| 14 | We have said that nationalized industries should price at social marginal cost , but should this be short-run marginal cost ( SMC ) or long-run marginal cost ( LMC ) ? |
| 15 | ‘ We have concluded that future growth opportunities can best be exploited by a simpler and more efficient organisation than exists today and we will be making a significant capital investment to increase production efficiency at our Kirkliston site as well as increasing our marketing effort worldwide . ’ |
| 16 | We have already seen that subjects given no pre-training do less well in the test phase than those given initial discrimination training and we have acknowledged that unambiguous interpretation of this difference is impossible . |
| 17 | Returning to the main theme , we have discovered that natural monopolies can coexist with almost perfectly contestable industries . |
| 18 | So far , we have discovered that particular movements are especially distressing while noise has no apparent effect on the birds . |
| 19 | Analysing the figures , we have discovered that those outlets which offer cooked food have actually increased their sales of all beverages , including liquor , whereas those which either do not sell food or provide only snacks such as crisps and sandwiches have shown significant decreases in liquor sales . |
| 20 | We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully " designed " to have come into existence by chance . |
| 21 | We have seen that young children have considerable understanding of intentions , and of the relationships between intentions , actions and results . |
| 22 | A legal problem has arisen here in respect of defendants who ‘ could not care less ’ whether the woman was not consenting : we have seen that such men can be convicted of rape in cases where they achieve penetration , but there is a problem in convicting them of attempted rape where they fail to achieve penetration but clearly intended to do so . |
| 23 | We have seen that all forms of medical care utilization increases with age . |
| 24 | We have seen that each system was forced to delay making a decision about the identity of a stretch of sound . |
| 25 | So far , then , we have seen that inner cities clearly suffer from very severe problems . |
| 26 | We have seen that recognised SROs are not expressly given rulemaking power by the FSA . |
| 27 | We have seen that graph-search terminology provides a useful framework for clarifying and examining issues involved in automatic speech processing . |
| 28 | We have seen that economic analysis may be of help in making difficult policy choices . |
| 29 | We have seen that most people with IBS do not consult doctors and those who do may have reasons other than the symptoms themselves . |
| 30 | Several times , in bars , glancing up from our Bud or our Molson or our Miller , we have seen that same shot on the mounted TV : like a eugenic cross between swordfish and stingray , the helicopter twirls upward from the ocean and crouches grimly on the deck of the aircraft-carrier , ready to fight . |