Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Baker , the secretary of state , told Congress recently that his review of Middle East policy convinced him long before the invasion of Kuwait that the ‘ old view that we somehow did not want the Soviets involved is a mistake ’ . |
| 2 | We just popped out to get a beer and a burger , down-state a ways . |
| 3 | As well as the joking , we just went out to enjoy the practice . |
| 4 | Torquay boss Paul Compton said : ‘ This was another typical Yeovil giant-killing act and we just did n't have an answer . ’ |
| 5 | as if we just did n't have the words for them . |
| 6 | PUB regulars admitted today : ‘ We just did n't have the heart to burn Johnny the Guy . ’ |
| 7 | And , like , we left him there for about five minutes and we just did n't hear a thing |
| 8 | ‘ On a couple of occasions we just did not get the bounce of the ball . |
| 9 | We still had n't filmed a meat scrum , though . |
| 10 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 11 | After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period . |
| 12 | We nearly did n't have a season at all until we got Aschmann . ’ |
| 13 | We simply had not evolved a theory and practice of teacher-training that works . |
| 14 | We simply did not know the extent to which English people are taught to despise us . |
| 15 | We then went on to describe the Johnston-McClelland model of visual word recognition and the Cohort model of auditory word recognition . |
| 16 | ‘ We definitely did n't pass a turning , did we ? ’ |
| 17 | We 're gon na look at how we actually set about writing the training session |
| 18 | We therefore set out to design an experiment with a younger , more appropriately matched control population . |
| 19 | About 6 years ago we therefore set out to raise the image of Washroom with the hope of protecting our customer base in difficult times and to generally increase sales . |
| 20 | Yes all we had when I was at school were l l yards of verbs and yards of nouns , we never knew how to put the two lots together . |