Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But since we 're both going to have to stay under this roof for a couple of days , perhaps even longer , maybe we 'd better lay down some ground rules so that we can at least avoid open warfare . ’ |
| 2 | The Pope says that since God initially made us multiply , as is obvious from looking around even the famine fields of Ethiopia , we 'd better do as much of it as we can . |
| 3 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 4 | Q : If we grew up eating so much terrible food , why are n't we all ill ? |
| 5 | But party organiser Ossie Tortoishell , 78 , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't even 10 o'clock and we did n't make that much noise . ’ |
| 6 | This meant installing new plumbing , electrics , draining and the new handpainted pale-coloured units — we did n't realise how much work needed to be done , ’ says Julie . |
| 7 | We did n't go often enough dear , that 's the other thing . |
| 8 | We did n't do too much until the following year when our first win was the Spanish Open at Las Brisas . |
| 9 | ‘ We did n't talk that much . ’ |
| 10 | So , quite rightly , they 've already had some support , and at that time , we did n't know how much money , you know , we were working on a different budget . |
| 11 | You asked for a a few , so we did n't know how many you wanted . |
| 12 | Keith always had a reason , so we did n't mind that much , but both David and me used to get quite annoyed with Peter . |
| 13 | Now having said all this you know let's not identify with these too much like the that 's me you know okay , it gives you an incl an idea of your in of your stance where what sort of attitude philosophy and behaviours you prefer to have within a group , okay and if you match those back to what we saw in the group erm then it 's not surprising that the group got on so well together and you know we did n't have too much conflict with the amount of team workers involved because nobody in there wanted to upset anybody else in the team . |
| 14 | We raffled a car at Christmas in the John Radcliffe and collected everybody 's money , and we did n't have too many qualms of conscience about that , but one 's got to be very careful not to beg from patients , but I think er fun for all , a lottery is fun and we feel perfectly er acceptable towards this very worthwhile project when we 're given the cheque on Monday . |
| 15 | I wish we did n't have so many turtles so I can work it out better . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied , ‘ we had speech , but we did n't have as many words and names for things as you have now . |
| 17 | and it 's just a take on , so I watched what I said , but erm , we mentioned it , we , we did n't see very much about it we just said it 's coming up we 'll have , we 'll let you in for a full details next month so |
| 18 | Perhaps they are pests to a lot of people , but we did n't see too many flies around our estate during the hot summer , so they had their uses . |
| 19 | We used to have a lot of lettuce and of course Summer Summertime , we did n't see so many because everybody had a garden here and everybody er you know , grew lettuce . |
| 20 | So we did n't get very much ti time off and by the time we got back to our rooms at night we were so terribly tired you just dropped into bed . |
| 21 | ‘ We did n't get as many cars as we would have liked from funeral directors , ’ said managing director Lowrie as copySlay , ‘ but they 've got their responsibility to their trade . |
| 22 | We did not collect as much objective data as we might have done with a white group . |
| 23 | We did not sleep much that night . |
| 24 | We discussed how to identify the full costs of courses , and the mechanisms by which funding could flow , which could include funds through students , but we did not rule out all of this being government money . |
| 25 | Regrettably , we did not receive very much support because , in Committee , the Opposition voted against the major proposals in the Bill . |
| 26 | The stored up sunshine and seasalt in our pores saved us from having another attack of the dreaded ‘ flu that winter , although we had also used very much potassium permanganate in our sinks and drains , as the health authorities asked . |
| 27 | We had a short stop for refreshment , got out the pegs and the skyhook and secured an open krab onto the end of a three foot cheating stick ( which we had carefully hauled up all the way from the woods ) . |
| 28 | By the time we reboarded the pavilion , after barely an hour 's play , in deference to the rising tide , we had probably soaked up more liquid than the pitch . |
| 29 | And we had n't heard so much about her recently , anyway . ’ |
| 30 | If we had n't heard so much about him from Robert , we 'd find it impossible to imagine that this bloke was anything but the most upright of citizens . ’ |