Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly we had four rooms , a plumbed in bath and no poor Irish downstairs . |
| 2 | Obviously we needed additional colleagues , and we decided to involve a number in the Education Department , who were willing to work with us . |
| 3 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 4 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 5 | So we made this room into a chapel again . |
| 6 | So we made these tests more complex in order to increase their relevance , but in so doing we produced tests which were so sophisticated as not to be widely available due to cost and personnel requirements , and which began to show some of the problems found when we measured performance ‘ on-site ’ . |
| 7 | So we saw this fellow go up to the window and look and then he went and got a stone from the kerb and ‘ bang ’ on the window . |
| 8 | So we noted last time that I booked the library in Bishop 's Stortford for two periods , this year for display , we 've booked the er street collection in Bishop 's Stortford for July , now are there any other dates we need to mention . |
| 9 | So we developed simple tests to overcome some of the difficulties , but they were often not very ‘ relevant ’ . |
| 10 | So we ordered another Guinness and soaked up the atmosphere some more . |
| 11 | So we sought wiser men than ourselves who have trodden the same path he proposes to take . |
| 12 | So we spent seven weeks in Christchurch altogether . |
| 13 | So we became good friends . |
| 14 | Could n't you have somehow fixed it so we had separate rooms ? ’ |
| 15 | In Scotland , Members of Parliament from both sides of the House and local government employees and councillors stupidly said that they would continue with the revaluation , and so we had five-year revaluations until 1985 . |
| 16 | So we had eight people huddled over the desk arguing about the sound . |
| 17 | Mums and toddlers thought it was wonderful , we only had half a dozen you see in there cos it was low numbers all round so we had low numbers in the |
| 18 | So we had this idea of getting other people to buy it with us . ’ |
| 19 | So we had this agreement I would al arrive in a removal van just as assembly finished to start the lessons in the morning and then my removal man would come back and pick me up again at twelve o'clock so that I could then do the two-man jobs . |
| 20 | So we had another mystery . |
| 21 | So we got five cards out . |
| 22 | So what have we done , we 've put the money into ten lots of five pound now okay so we got fifty pounds let's say we had it in five pound notes . |
| 23 | So we got more money and then mum and dad were and me and my brother are supposed to have . |
| 24 | So we got this phone call he said hello Mr I said yes . |
| 25 | That is obviously something which we 've just got to keep topping up but it was recognised by the fathers that will there was we needed to be helped to train to sell and so we needed that training er to get us get us going so to speak , there were no natural salesmen amongst departments . |
| 26 | So we stayed five days in this backpackers ' , had a look round Auckland , visited MOTAT the Museum of Transport and Technology , opened a bank account , sold the Krugerrands which had been left to us by my Mum and which financed at least half the trip , and recovered from jetlag by sleeping only at night . |
| 27 | So , so that 's been a great improvement I think , erm in recent years and , and in the erm early seventies we , we also went into the business of providing equipment that could be left at rescues , on site , you know it was always tying up a fire engine by taking it there and , and being tied up so we provided these things which we call demountable equipment , which we commonly call the pods and erm |
| 28 | So we built this snowman round this rock and this car came back cos he came he just came in to hit it and he burst into and broke his bumper . |
| 29 | So we bought that shop for two thousand Pounds . |
| 30 | So we started another thing then the , if you paid fourpence you , you could have your suit wrapped up and it were new paper with string . |