Example sentences of "and we [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still to come : a full round up of the day 's news from the City , and we preview the first of the season 's major snooker tournaments . |
| 2 | Middle of the following week and we got the first reconciliation yesterday . |
| 3 | Because er we tried it and we got the wrong ruddy film ! |
| 4 | We tried it once and we got the wrong ruddy film we did ! |
| 5 | The guard did not challenge us and we followed the faint trackway till Benjamin reined in and offered me a bulging wineskin . |
| 6 | John Wildig travelled on the first down train , we both , with his sons , went on the West Wales train from Carmarthen to Fishguard and return , and we followed the double header from Llandovery to Craven Arms . |
| 7 | We thank Hilda and Isabel most warmly for their work , and we wish the new President , Peggy Secord , and the new Chairman , Pauline Kenward , every success . |
| 8 | We could mobilise the resources and we had the moral drive . |
| 9 | They sat with us and we had the greatest time . ’ |
| 10 | This is a , you know , this is the third one which is er was similar to others we 've had , the steps and we had the other door and a few steps down , and then , this is all similar types of photographs and all taken from different sort of angles . |
| 11 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 12 | And we had the fantastic help in from South Wales , most thos terribly good er people were terribly good to us in organizing er different things . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 15 | and we had the cheapest fares for many years because of that |
| 16 | It was good fun except for the fact that it was extremely cold and we had the wrong Bethlehem carol sheet . |
| 17 | And we had the wrong contacts with the wrong people . |
| 18 | He sent for me and demanded my resignation , and we had the worst row I 've ever had in my business life . ’ |
| 19 | Well we 've locked the bottom half , cos Steve got a lock and we locked the bottom half . |
| 20 | we plot this this horrible lot against theta and we get the usual wiggly |
| 21 | The base wood of the plant therefore grows higher each year and we get the familiar ‘ bush rose ’ consisting of 1 ft ( 0.3m ) , 2 ft ( 0.6m ) or even more of old , bare and barky wood , with the current year 's bloom-bearing growth starting from way up in the air ! |
| 22 | I 'd just like to elude to the er positive string on exchange , we take our profits in during the year at an average rate , but the cash benefit obviously er year on year is , is better than that er to the extent that the erm dollar has strengthened throughout the year or by the year end against the pound and we get the full benefit of that in our cash flow . |
| 23 | ‘ For years British players have moaned at the LTA , now we have a proper national training centre and we await the real success story , ’ said 1977 Wimbledon champion Wade . |
| 24 | We had our ‘ author-friendly contract ’ , which was easy for authors to understand , and we signed the Minimum Terms Agreement fairly early on . |
| 25 | They came on the Friday and we signed the damned papers , did n't we , and they took away my social security book . |
| 26 | We already had the French and Germans with us , and we divided the remaining eighty-odd delegates between us so that on the day before the first meeting we could explain our intentions and our reasoning to as many delegates as we could find . |
| 27 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 28 | Afterwards we flew back to Greg 's house and we spent the next week working real hard . |
| 29 | And we take the second year 's , this is a sales pitch , we take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 30 | The gross savings rate out of output Y is assumed to depend on the capital-labour ratio ( the nature of this dependence is discussed below ) , and we take the simple case of a proportionate rate of depreciation , y , often referred to as ‘ radioactive decay ’ . |