Example sentences of "we [vb past] [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secret we used was to make the correct article immediately follow after one with four legs or corners . |
| 2 | And er he did n't blame me one bit of doing that because we 'd been getting the run around . |
| 3 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 4 | Then me , yeah me and Zed were saying like because , and like we 'd been tripping the night before and everything |
| 5 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 6 | I stared into the mist until my eyes hurt , ahead , off both quarters , in case we 'd been carried the other way , even astern . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been doing the video for eight hours straight , everything was getting loose and they say , we wan na do a hand-held sequence , just go for it , run around the room and do whatever you want . |
| 8 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps the biggest problem we foresaw was getting the job done in two to three weeks ( plus weekends ) we have available , and this mainly depended on timely delivery of materials . |
| 10 | ‘ I can not understand how any financial institution can rob two small children of their rights , when all we did was follow the Abbey National 's advice all along . |
| 11 | ‘ Basically what we did was occupy the airport and set up positions more or less to keep the locals , cattle and goats off the runway , ’ said Captain Dave Hall . |
| 12 | But when we took it over the , one of the first things we did was to redesign the kitchen because the soup was made in these great boiler and it was probably heated up every day of the week and can imagine what it would be like being in prison . |
| 13 | We had been taught the history of the organisation , and each day were learning more about its curious codes of morality and behaviour . |
| 14 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 15 | We had been reading the poems of a Greek poet in French translation together . |
| 16 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 17 | Up by where we had been tipping the spoil was an area of hard-standing for a car , and some benevolent genius ( probably our builder friend ) had laid down sheets of open-weave chipboard over the soil , so the wheels would n't sink in . |