Example sentences of "we [verb] [det] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know .
2 We used all our time , we ended up having to pay in the end .
3 We urge all our team to use their skills to the full to achieve efficiencies and it works .
4 Why do n't we send half our force forward , parallel to theirs ?
5 We spent all our time rewriting the NCC drafts , keeping their improvements , which we accepted were valuable , but mainly restoring our original wording .
6 My mother 's home was an ordinary set up and every holiday we spent half our holiday with our mother so we were in an environment of relative normality for much of our time . ’
7 If they do n't there is a cutoff point at which we know all our production costs all our er administration costs and all commissions we we will have covered .
8 There 's no electricity on Skomer and we get all our power from bottled gas which we have to carry 90 steps up the cliff-side to our house .
9 We lost all our property .
10 Actually , we were probably more technical than we are now , 'cos we had a year 's break between the two bands and in that time we lost all our talent , so we had to start again .
11 Yeah well we had , we had to abandon that , we brou we brought all our Employment Officers in on a Friday , erm and we just could n't staff the office the rest of the week you see
12 That year we took all our Camping Gear on the train with us instead of hiring a lorry .
13 And erm we did all our shopping in the local area and at the market .
14 The reason for that is that we do all our selling on the phone .
15 ‘ No , Zack , we do this my way or it all gets blown to kingdom come … ’
16 We call this our peace of mind guarantee .
17 We stick all my stuff in the suitcase and sort of squash it down so it all fits in .
18 When Moustaine was finally satisfied , we replaced all our kit in our rooms ; mine still smelt strongly of ‘ Ziggi ’ aftershave .
19 One by one we had all our hair shaved off , in the regulation crop known as a ‘ boule à zéro ’ .
20 And once we had it was before we had all our carpet done in the hall
21 I and the girls , that 's , that 's all they got fifteen shillings because I was in the office I got a pound and mind you we slept in , we had all our food , you see , and we had to all sleep in .
22 I mean we we spend all our life at work , then go home and we do more work .
23 We spend half our time trying to escape the worries of adulthood , so it does n't make sense to rush children into it .
24 If we include those whose radio technology goes back 100,000 years , the whole trillion-star galaxy would be within radio range .
25 ‘ But we 're running away tae London , we need all our money . ’
26 We need all your support to make this a success .
27 As soon as we see this our picture of doubt changes completely .
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