Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd better get started.He resolutely maintains a fixed , matey grin until you ask him something dodgy . |
| 2 | Before that , though , we went round asking people to sponsor us . |
| 3 | Oh nineteen sixties we , we introduced that with the blessing of the ambulance people as well , it was n't done without careful consideration , because erm we did n't want people to , to just erm introduce it without knowing what we were doing and ever since we used it it 's been a great blessing . |
| 4 | We did n't want people to think it was only for production and engineering . |
| 5 | If we did n't have butchers to do the necessary , we 'd be vegetarians out of sheer ineptitude . |
| 6 | ‘ We did n't get £28,000 which with 14 other bad debts amounted to £100,000 , ’ he said . |
| 7 | We did not obtain data on the families of patients with inflammatory bowel disease who died between 1978 and 1987 . |
| 8 | ‘ We failed because we did not raise people 's hopes sufficiently . |
| 9 | The first criterion can be satisfied , of course , without its also being true that even if x ( any other event or condition or set of them ) had also occurred , then if we had not got cc we would not have got e . |
| 10 | Because prior to that we had n't sold fish as such . |
| 11 | Driver explained that ‘ we have effectively been prompted by our supplier , who has warned us that we had better wean people off it . |