Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly we had four rooms , a plumbed in bath and no poor Irish downstairs . |
| 2 | Suddenly we became aware of a strange gentleman who had also been listening , and was now looking coldly at us . |
| 3 | When we settled down we played some tremendous football and maybe should have sneaked it in the end . |
| 4 | ‘ We always had to be aware where their main dangers were coming from and defensively we did that . |
| 5 | Obviously we needed additional colleagues , and we decided to involve a number in the Education Department , who were willing to work with us . |
| 6 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 7 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 8 | So we waited five long years before we could go in daylight , find the oil , and deny the Luftwaffe and the tank crews of the substance that they so desperately needed . |
| 9 | so we made each what was the dining room they 've made into a bedroom , but just do n't that he , cos you could see them doing it . |
| 10 | So we made this room into a chapel again . |
| 11 | So we made these tests more complex in order to increase their relevance , but in so doing we produced tests which were so sophisticated as not to be widely available due to cost and personnel requirements , and which began to show some of the problems found when we measured performance ‘ on-site ’ . |
| 12 | , three cards each , right so we chose three to look at . |
| 13 | So we went rough . |
| 14 | So we went this one Christmas I 'll always remember it . |
| 15 | So we produced three different sorts , and they 're never in the right place . |
| 16 | So we saw this fellow go up to the window and look and then he went and got a stone from the kerb and ‘ bang ’ on the window . |
| 17 | So we noted last time that I booked the library in Bishop 's Stortford for two periods , this year for display , we 've booked the er street collection in Bishop 's Stortford for July , now are there any other dates we need to mention . |
| 18 | So we developed simple tests to overcome some of the difficulties , but they were often not very ‘ relevant ’ . |
| 19 | So we ordered another Guinness and soaked up the atmosphere some more . |
| 20 | So we sought wiser men than ourselves who have trodden the same path he proposes to take . |
| 21 | So we spent seven weeks in Christchurch altogether . |
| 22 | So we became good friends . |
| 23 | So we asked some of the other Liverpool stores to come up with their definition of Merseystyle … |
| 24 | So we asked some of the other Liverpool stores to come up with their definition of Merseystyle … |
| 25 | Could n't you have somehow fixed it so we had separate rooms ? ’ |
| 26 | In Scotland , Members of Parliament from both sides of the House and local government employees and councillors stupidly said that they would continue with the revaluation , and so we had five-year revaluations until 1985 . |
| 27 | Philip had all these bits so so Philip got all got all the bits and and eat them and Paul got all his bits so we had six clean plates ! thing , not a thing thrown away . |
| 28 | So we had eight people huddled over the desk arguing about the sound . |
| 29 | Mums and toddlers thought it was wonderful , we only had half a dozen you see in there cos it was low numbers all round so we had low numbers in the |
| 30 | So we had all that consequently ! |