Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd better call Larry in and get away from here , quick , ’ she heard Butch say . |
| 2 | We 'd better say goodbye to Shrub . |
| 3 | I thi I mean there were quite a number of people , I would say on the flats that we did n't make contact with at all . |
| 4 | I did n't go because I was suddenly seized by an overwhelming passion for him , we did n't make love on the tiger-skin rug in that little box of a room you gave him , his pear-shaped body pressed against my ageing but still voluptuous frame . ’ |
| 5 | Oh nineteen sixties we , we introduced that with the blessing of the ambulance people as well , it was n't done without careful consideration , because erm we did n't want people to , to just erm introduce it without knowing what we were doing and ever since we used it it 's been a great blessing . |
| 6 | I mean , of course there were things that were missed out I suppose , but also , I suppose , we were quite young , so it may have quite embarrassing and we did n't want talk about certain things . |
| 7 | We did n't carry batons for ornaments . |
| 8 | It was the question of making sure that we did n't pay tax on any of that three four four five . |
| 9 | Erm we did n't waste money in any way . |
| 10 | This was that if we did n't take part in the inquiry , then it would be easy for the pro-nuclear lobby to accuse us of ignoring democracy , throwing up the chance to have our say , implying that our case was too weak to risk exposure . |
| 11 | We did n't invite friends with Mother being placed as she was , but if neighbours called they would be offered a glass of something , usually home-made ginger cordial , and a bit of cake if we had it . |
| 12 | Our street was just a row of brick terrace house , and we did n't have gardens at the front . |
| 13 | At Low Birk Hatt we did n't have Christmases in the generally accepted sense . |
| 14 | That happened in the ring , we did n't have head-guards in those days . |
| 15 | We did n't have snow at home . |
| 16 | Well if you look backwards erm at nineteen eighty six which , although we did n't have war in nineteen eighty six we had a series of horrendous events . |
| 17 | 'Course , we did n't have telly in those days , and could n't afford holidays or anything like that . |
| 18 | last year we did n't have time to really |
| 19 | It used to be dinner for us at night , you see , cos we did n't have time for stopping like at lunchtime . |
| 20 | So that 's it for this week , sorry we did n't have room for our promised body building item , I 've been told to work on my pecs before we get back to it and er it should n't take too long . |
| 21 | We did n't get hold of the wrong end of the stick . |
| 22 | ‘ The only difference between this and other games is that we did n't put goals on the end of the performance . |
| 23 | Thank goodness we did n't put Michael with them . |
| 24 | We did n't lose hold of the management of the economy as happened in other republics , ’ said Viktor Alampiev , head of parliament 's economic reforms commission . |
| 25 | We did also observe libraries in which quiet reading was demanded and in which leisure reading was being promoted . |
| 26 | As we did not perform endoscopy in this control group , we can not rule out the inclusion of a few patients with gastritis . |
| 27 | We did not specify lists of terms and concepts which should be taught . |
| 28 | Tesfaye Dinka , visiting London , said on April 2 that " there is no military co-operation right now " with Israel and that " we did not restore relations with Israel for military reasons " . |
| 29 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 30 | We travelled back and forth between England and India until I was seven when , because of the First World War , we did not leave India for five idyllic years from 1915 . |