Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the professors object to giving lessons in Arabic , so suddenly we 've got hundreds of thousands of students who need to learn Italian . |
| 2 | We have been living in a jungle all our lives and we have struggled to bring our minds into cultivation but without hope and suddenly we have found this meadow of cleared land on which we can plant our gardens . |
| 3 | ‘ We all left the theatre with smiles — thinking not what an authentic production we 'd seen but how much we 'd enjoyed 18th century theatre ’ EARLY MUSIC NEWS |
| 4 | With the Maccabees we feel on the threshold of a new epoch , the end of tolerance and the beginning of persecution , and naturally we want to know both what brought about this change and how the protagonists saw the events in which they played a part . |
| 5 | Erm basically we 've spent more than we 've erm taken in but that was a deliberate policy agreed on by the committee we 've already mentioned Norman 's flats erm that has been a most worthwhile expenditure and we 've got to look at that as a long-term investment because we 've got flats which are going to last for years and our expenditure which was getting on for fifteen hundred pounds will not have to be repeated . |
| 6 | For far too long we have given free publicity for such tourist spots as Edinburgh Castle . |
| 7 | I think perhaps we need to do that as part of the planning for each year 's budget . |
| 8 | set aside an amount of money or identified that we would need to spend an amount of money and perhaps we need to do that sooner . |
| 9 | But perhaps we have grown over-concerned about the conscious levels of rationality and suppressed for too long the reservoirs of subconscious feeling which the Spirit seems to touch and use when a man prays in tongues , with the result that he is built up , even though he can not understand what he is saying ( I Cor. 14:4 ) . |
| 10 | Well , erm , well obviously we 've got some , as you know , we 've got the timber all the material . |
| 11 | The former UN Special Representative for Somalia , Mohamed Sahnoun , who resigned last year , said in August ‘ … if only we had intervened last November … now we are paying the price . ’ |
| 12 | Funnily enough we 've got fourteen |
| 13 | As they do so we tend to know fewer of the people we see in them . |
| 14 | so we prefer to keep open till half past till six o'clock at night . |
| 15 | So we had to obey all her orders , and Joseph and I were not allowed to scold her any more . |
| 16 | He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon . |
| 17 | Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that . |
| 18 | so we had to put some a bit of heat in . |
| 19 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 20 | So we had to make radical changes . |
| 21 | So we had to get used to the ending up in |
| 22 | So we had to get some ways to try and get something down . |
| 23 | So we 've said that , so that 's a hundred interview sheets twelve hours in a day usually , unless your name 's Billy , twelve hours in a , half a day , should of said , so that 's twelve hundred times two two thousand four hundred so that 's half a box , call it two and a half thousand |
| 24 | Now then er regular listeners will know that over the last couple of years or so we 've done some special listener trips for you er and we 've gone down to London . |
| 25 | And we have n't tenterhooked this wall because we wanted to be able to open and shut this curtain so we 've adopted another medieval style taken from erm er medieval manuscripts . |
| 26 | Okay so we 've got six pizzas only four of us . |
| 27 | So we 've got six swallows eat three hundred flies in five hours . |
| 28 | So we 've got six hundred times nought point seven . |
| 29 | And then another two people come in so we 've got four people all together . |
| 30 | So we 've got four plus minus one is three , four plus minus two is two , four plus minus three is one , four plus minus four is nought , four plus minus five is minus one what 's going to be the next one ? |