Example sentences of "we [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So was it any surprise that the Syrians we met that hot day in the Bekaa wanted only to maintain Lebanon 's Maronite-dominated institutions , to restore the sovereignty of the Lebanese government , to stay not one hour , not one minute longer than necessary ? |
| 2 | Er just as we owned that famous street in New York I 'd like to think with the technology and the architecture that can deliver today we we 'll own the road to enterprise client server . |
| 3 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 4 | so that we made that little place what was the bathroom into a little cookery place , I put , we put the cooker in there , then we had our bath , had our bath put upstairs you see |
| 5 | He was born sixteen years ago , and we realised that first winter that there was something wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ When we got that first call from the company , we thought they were going to sue us because we 'd used some samples on a record without clearing them , ’ laughs Geoff . |
| 7 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 8 | ‘ We got that little bit of luck that we 've been missing . |
| 9 | Just looked at it , cos we got that this time . |
| 10 | We fear that inadequate time will be available for Personnel if the Head of that sector is also managing campaigns . |
| 11 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 12 | ‘ Why do n't we do that very thing . ’ |
| 13 | We hope that two initiatives by government this year , will help to change that . |
| 14 | That , th so that 's what you need to get a hold of , that 's when you need to think , how can we cash that out , how can we give that some content ? |
| 15 | If this rule change is agreed , we accept that one member has more rights than another . |
| 16 | We consider that punitive policies such as cutting benefit payments or not providing adequate housing for lone parents or their children , would immediately damage the health and well being of children and we consider that that in itself is contrary to the U N convention on the rights of the child . |
| 17 | And along these power lines also comes death , for we recall that little bit of power in Niagara which in former days used to rid the state of its criminals . |
| 18 | If somebody who has been actually shot at by a nuclear weapon is so goddamned complacent about it all , and so pig ignorant of the implications of the happening , what hope have we got that public opinion ( the silent majority ) will be sufficiently stirred to stop our power intoxicated leaders from brandishing their nuclear swords ? |
| 19 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 20 | Congress , we know that low pay never saves jobs and never will . |
| 21 | Erm and erm you know , we know that last time it was done er the , the signs were not bilingual , the ones census point and so on |
| 22 | We believe and we know that re-offending rates after secure regimes are much higher than after community based schemes and the well being and safety of children we believe can be compromised by incarceration in secure provision . |
| 23 | Well we hope that erm by coming here you 've demonstrated that you do n't live in fantasy land so I 'd like to welcome you to the real world and in the real world we know that open systems despite the progress they 've made still struggle to replace the mainframe . |
| 24 | It was simply that we were shooting the picture down in Brighton on the front to a large extent and on the rubbish dump , I remember , which we turned into the fields of northern France , and we needed that terrible phrase from the First World War , cannon fodder . |
| 25 | ‘ It was fun in Bucharest when we covered that two-way mirror . |
| 26 | We watched that last night do n't matter we watched that last night and he were chittering away about summat , I were n't taking a lot of notice |
| 27 | We watched that last night do n't matter we watched that last night and he were chittering away about summat , I were n't taking a lot of notice |
| 28 | We assert that strong trade union relationships , on a day to day basis , must be developed in a bilateral form and this agreement provides for substantial trade union cooperation in the European Community and beyond , and it 's already materially advancing the interests of our members and assisting the development of free and independent trade unionism in Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Republics . |
| 29 | We thought that last year we hoped that last year , the murder of migrant workers in and the demonstrations of fascist thugs was clearly not isolated . |
| 30 | Are we to suppose that human beings only exercise free will when they sin — or , worse , only sin when they exercise free will ? |