Example sentences of "[coord] we [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So those are all if you like the background , the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although we 'll look a little bit although we 've er I have to say with the numbers we 've got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if we 've twelve people to make four presentations or we 've eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we do n't perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for . |
2 | ‘ I played against them twice out there in 1984 and we got two hammerings . |
3 | Twice we nearly drove into a horse and cart and we passed three lorries . |
4 | And we had sixty pullets at the point of lay in this house to be moved out from the house to a field . |
5 | In 1985 only 15 species of bird nested on the farm ; in 1992 our breeding list had reached 45 species and we had 156 pairs of birds nesting here . |
6 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
7 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
8 | But the company was always wanting new plays , and we had two theatres now . |
9 | ten ninety five and , and we had two bottles last night so it costs us sixty pounds . |
10 | And we had two shields , we had two separate teams to go immediately to the two bedrooms which , in our er esti est estimations , that will be where any adults were more likely to be in the flat . |
11 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |
12 | And we had two years with no pay rise . |
13 | And we had one day off a month . |
14 | And we had one rugby pitch . |
15 | You know I went and showed my dogs over there and afterwards we all went to the pub and we had one hell of a time and then I had to sing would you believe it ? |
16 | And where ag erm either erm a young mother or even older women who did n't have a husband to support them , then we would try and we had one woman coming in and saying , she had six children and er her husband had gone off , and her giro had n't been sorted out . |
17 | And then a big house where the children were so many and we had one mother for all of us . |
18 | Last week a husband took his wife out for a drive and we had 45 minutes to get the place ready , wine chilled , chandeliers , and have a lobster dinner ready on the table by the time they got back . |
19 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
20 | ‘ Unfortunately , the referee completely lost it and we had three players sent off . ’ |
21 | My husband was Mustafa Zamzam and we had three orchards — two with olives and one with citrus . |
22 | In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere . |
23 | At that particular time , er , quite right , faced with the failing national economy , and it 's got worse than it was then , and an increase in poverty in , this controlling group produced its plan for 1990 ninety one and in it 's redirection packages which are now part of our agenda on Council we d we made to pledges , one was to change the nature of Council and the other was to redirect sources on the process of need and we put four point three million on redirection in the first year , four point seven the second year . |
24 | Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel ! |
25 | Evening distractions were few , although we did hear Sinead O'Connor blasting out in the early hours in one village , and we spent one evening joining in with some traditional dancing — the original Twist ! |
26 | On 22 June , 1980 , I gave Bernie lunch at the Travellers Club , and we spent three hours recalling the Good Old Days of radio broadcasting with the CBC in Canada . |
27 | We had er they were sleeping all over everywhere at Christmas time , on the floor , seem to remember dozens of people then and we kept two maids then and a gardener . |
28 | And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do . |
29 | Just that erm , Sheila and are have sorted some more things and we 've fifty pound , no we 've got forty five pounds . |
30 | for the winner … the one who guesses correctly there 's two season tickets … and we 've five runners-up prizes of United shirts … we 'll announce the winners when we know the new manager of course … now United are playing at Bolton tonight … they need at least a point after a disappointing defeat against watford on saturday … |