Example sentences of "[verb] we [vb past] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After er , purchasing we continued to produce the same materials erm , mainly er , directed towards the saddlery trade . |
| 2 | It will need new valley gutters and we found we had to replace the roof structure ( something we originally thought was not needed ) . |
| 3 | He says we had to climb an imaginary ladder . |
| 4 | He says we tried to persuade the Council to let us have it , but they said it had to be leased so now we have no where to go . |
| 5 | And then we wer found out instead of sitting and listening we had to do the service . |
| 6 | well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started |
| 7 | so see the thing is if you wanted to go , see , that Sunday half way we did did n't we ? , do n't you remember we had to cross the road ? |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll remember we decided to arrest the Müller woman and her maid , ’ said Davout , as usual embarking on business without preliminary . |
| 9 | Why do you think we wanted to have an overdraft Wal ? |
| 10 | Using worship , dance , drama , testimony and preaching we began to communicate the truth of Jesus to the Hungarians . |
| 11 | Because of that view and because of the principals which we as an organisation espouse we chose to challenge the position that the Home Secretary had adopted and raised , we believe , the debate in the media and in the parliamentary setting of what should be provided to meet the er needs of young people . |
| 12 | ‘ We realised we had to have a price rise but not as great as the council have proposed , ’ he said . |
| 13 | You think about it , it 's never , I mean we had to have a special fire door put on cos our we go through to our garage . |
| 14 | Well it , no his friend Joe , one of the other policemen and , they done most of it , I mean we had to get the shopping did n't we ? |
| 15 | You know we managed to man the gates in working hours and forced the company to shift slate at ungodly hours in the morning , and I think people were impressed that we managed to stick it out . |
| 16 | ‘ I know we had to share a bed , thanks to your lies , ’ she corrected , valiantly trying to stave off the dreaded interrogation . |
| 17 | Now I know as I was saying a few moments ago , I travelled to the continent just recently , and I know we had to pay a surcharge on the flight . |
| 18 | Not too bad we we got well we had been together near enough since we left school but you know we decided to have a go at it seriously in in seventy five and then we recorded an album and a single in say seventy seven , seventy eight . |
| 19 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 20 | It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers . |
| 21 | We felt we had to take the initiative and hope the Chlorine Information Service will prompt other organisations to follow our lead . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We felt we had to keep the name to avoid any insult , ’ says Vinogradov . |
| 23 | Well the other thing I was thinking of was if we if we felt we needed to put a new roller blind at the window |
| 24 | If you knew what we know , you 'd realise we had to take the action we did . ’ |
| 25 | Goal hero Steve Mardenborough added : ‘ We knew we had to get a result because we 've slipped up a little bit recently . |
| 26 | We knew we had to have a women-only group . |
| 27 | Erm what this is really about , I think we all recognise this is the erm purchaser aim to increase their leverage in the contract situation as against the providers on the other side of contract and in fact , I think we ought to tie this very much more in with what this authority has been saying about the proposals of the trust on the provider side because I think that this is an argument against the whole district N H S trusts that we 're getting , but it is encouraging the situation in which health authorities have purchasers on the other side of the contract are going to want to band together and merge to create a larger block in which to negotiate with their whole trust providers , I think this is a a very dangerous situation and think we needed to tie the two together as an argument there . |
| 28 | When I 'd finished we began to see the funny side of it and ended up laughing . |
| 29 | But before we left we decided to spring a little surprise on two friends whose husbands were artillery officers in North Africa while Leslie was there . |
| 30 | So we had to as soon as they come we had to open a trench and heel them in do you see . |