Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forest was cool where we walked a hundred feet below the canopy . |
| 2 | The latter are the only maps available for Spain and Portugal , and although we saw a 1:1,000,000 visual map at a couple of airfields , despite our enquiries we were not able to buy one . |
| 3 | Now erm , the Council can support such groups , it can , it can , got formally decided the body to support such groups and with the West Essex Health Action Campaign all political parties on this Council decided to support it , because they were sad that we lost the fifty million . |
| 4 | We did say at the discussion , that we did a four and a half day or a five day construction site safety |
| 5 | Now I 'm just thinking , so we got a thousand pounds here , I would like to spend this money . |
| 6 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 7 | I m I must confess I 'm one of these simple folk who thought that once we got the nineteen ninety one census figures through then it would it would all start into place . |
| 8 | Erm and that was after we put out a referendum around the plant and we got a seventy eight response saying , No smoking . |
| 9 | Me and Pam bet the same horse and did n't know , and we had a ten to one winner ! |
| 10 | But the problem I became very angry years ago with that because , I mean Irish Close and we had the three of you we found that she 'd , she just kept on telling us off . |
| 11 | But we have budgeted it for eighty five K at thirty six per cent and we achieved a hundred and three at thirty eight . |
| 12 | But we always stood roughly in the same place and we knew the forty or fifty people around us 'cos they were always there . |
| 13 | My players were a different class and we deserved the three points . |
| 14 | Roger quickly joined both ropes together and we descended the 300 feet to where I could follow our steps without difficulty to the foot of the crag . |
| 15 | Cos we had a twenty , twenty two and a twenty six did n't we ? |
| 16 | It 's interesting to note that actually now we 've since made that decision the residual has as I 've said come down to nine four seven , so if we do have a new settlement of fourteen hundred we 're already ending up with a a higher level of proposed development for Greater York now , the nine seven would obviously be exceeded if we had a fourteen hundred new settlement within Greater York . |
| 17 | This weekend he seems to be in Bratislava — that is if we understood the five ( at least ) different voices that answered the telephone at the number we have for him . |
| 18 | Yeah together and I 'm wondering whether we could put them in together if we wanted a sixteen . |
| 19 | So we got but we got a hundred percent acting or something and the two masters are gon na take us out , the five of us out to dinner . |
| 20 | We had , we had , generally a quartermaster but we had a one or , one or two captain quartermasters . |
| 21 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 22 | Well as you can see from what Frank said , the six main sectors overall did n't fare too badly , sixteen percent drop in aggregate at the trading level and in fact er , our other interest less expenses were actually ended on eleven percent because we had a million pounds more profit from Lakeside when we sold the Tesco 's site . |
| 23 | ‘ They stood up pretty well considering we lost a 10-0 lead and then had to come from behind to win . ’ |
| 24 | That was before we installed the eight thousand gallon water storage tank , which Health and Safety thought could drown a child . |
| 25 | Since eighty two er , when we merged the two Pearson public companies we have increased Pearson 's earnings per share and dividends four-fold . |
| 26 | It looked very bad when we advertised an eight P M start and if |
| 27 | Certainly it was the view adopted , for example , when we had a 6 month interregnum in Dublin , and it was assumed it was my responsibility to hold the fort . |
| 28 | ‘ We went through the proper channels with our application , ’ he said , ‘ following the pattern that was used when we ran the 125 and 250 World Championships . |
| 29 | The next morning unslept I was up at five but because of rain it was much later when we started the six kilometres ' trail to the larger lake on the reserve . |
| 30 | When we approached the 12 year-old 's little aluminium throne with its torn plastic seat and its bent wheels , he looked at us with that special insouciance of the Lebanese militiaman . |