Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 2 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 3 | Although we did receive some sheet music , we mainly got tapes . |
| 4 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 5 | I , I would totally support the move that you 're suggesting Mr Chairman , if we are asked to provide another one percent or whatever can be done , erm , I would suggest that the obvious way to get that money would be to offer them the ten thousand that we agreed to spend this morning . |
| 6 | Not that we 'd seen much of Mary lately . |
| 7 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
| 8 | It was interesting to listen to the comments after the game from the Radio 5 reporter who said that we 'd had enough chances to last us ‘ till Christmas , maybe it 'll make a few people sit up and recognise that we have a team capable of winning something this season . |
| 9 | On the other hand , no parent that we questioned voiced any suspicions with regard to their own children and they all seemed quite happy for them to attend his youth club . |
| 10 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 11 | We told that we had to do some preliminary research for possible television programmes . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought , ’ he said , in withdrawn enquiry , ‘ that we had answered all the relevant questions already . |
| 13 | We never shifted from this , that we had to have some form of secure income that would protect those areas . |
| 14 | Ultimately we were given that assurance and er we were quite proud of the fact that , you know , the members had gone along with us on the proviso that we had got that principle you know , to establish . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought that we had sorted all that out . ’ |
| 16 | They seemed disappointed to hear that we had had such a pleasant day on the far bank . |
| 17 | Which meant that we had to cart this coal from the wharf , take it to the client and put it in his coal house , you see ? |
| 18 | We then realized that we had to change that image , if you like to call it that , because we were n't really living normal lives any more . |
| 19 | A happy side-effect of electronic coursework is that we found marking less of a chore : indeed in small doses it has been interesting . |
| 20 | It had become so difficult that we needed to help each other make it ; everyone who made it to Australia would win a trophy . |
| 21 | Yeah , put that we did do that . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't pick Davis , we chose each other and decided a long time ago that we wanted to play this tournament together . |
| 23 | Two community or measles studies that we included had more than a single death and were not individually statistically significant : those by Barclay et al and Vijayaraghavan et al . |
| 24 | There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’ |
| 25 | Recalling the eve of the maiden flight of the ‘ Have Blue ’ proof of concept prototype which evolved into the F-117 , Rich told journalists : ‘ When that airplane was going to fly , the company was on strike , so we had to put all the management and engineers to work . |
| 26 | Aunt Bedelia had charge of the television so we had to watch all the soaps in Christendom . |
| 27 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
| 28 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
| 29 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 30 | Using public transport seemed out of the question and renting a car was expensive , so we decided to sink some of our capital , buy a car , and sell it again before leaving . |