Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] we " in BNC.
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1 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
2 | Explaining a new policy drift which will respect local political will at the expense of new development , Mr Patten said : ‘ Over the next 10 or 12 years we are going to need substantial numbers of new houses . |
3 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
4 | So I 've just made a note , the next C S N T , I 'll in the report back from the staff consultative committee , there 's two or three things we need |
5 | Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency . |
6 | It is a valuable piece of equipment , and my hon. Friend may like to know that in the next two or three years we shall proceed with some large modifications to it which we estimate will bring about £4 million worth of work to PBN on the Isle of Wight . |
7 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
8 | We 've lost over the past two years or , two or three years we 've lost about 60 per cent of our biggest trading accounts through soft loans from the big brewers . |
9 | Things happen fast in a head-on attack and in two or three seconds we had passed directly over them . |
10 | After a gap of two or three months we moved on to Chris Kinsey , who 's done the last six or seven Stones albums among other things . |
11 | Well , business can always be better , but in the last two or three days we 've really become quite excited about things . |
12 | ‘ As I see it , around eight teams have a chance of winning the Championship and that makes a welcome change from the two or three-horse races we have been used to , ’ he said . |
13 | For five or ten minutes we were all rushing up and down passages and in and out of rooms , challenging each other and answering , ‘ Smee ? |
14 | If the AEC had made no difference to the male participants with five or more preconvictions we would expect over half of them to have been reconvicted . |
15 | For about ten or twelve days we sailed on south , down the coast of Africa . |
16 | Oh maybe a matter of four or five hours we 'd take here . |
17 | And the West Midlands for four or five surveys we 've seen strong total orders broadly based between se sectors , strong output trends so the West Midlands being our leading er region is consistent with what we 've seen from other surveys . |
18 | If the hon. Gentleman followed that matter with any care , he would know that over the past four or five years we have steadily improved and made more generous the cold weather payments . |
19 | ‘ Over the last four or five months we 've become static and a little stale ’ , said a March 1969 editorial under the headline ‘ What we want to hear from you ’ . |
20 | Over the next 12 or 13 weeks we 'll be out and about . |
21 | Over a period of 10 or 15 years we will see our soil improving by using this technique . |
22 | Erm so those are the three or four areas we 'll be doing , is reli i religious poetry , love poetry , and the satires , which are actually called elegies . |
23 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
24 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
25 | There are one or two questions we never got round to . ’ |
26 | We at Glenlola know we 've got warts — but in one or two areas we achieve extremely highly . ’ |
27 | There are one or two things we need to sort out . ’ |
28 | Now , there are one or two things we still need to discuss , so we 'll leave you and Mr Calder to work out some sort of timetable between yourselves . ’ |
29 | They do n't want a report of the years work they just want us to talk about one or two things we 've done Any more events ? |
30 | No well in fact there are one or two hiccups we 've had with them . |