Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rarely took a vote sitting around the board table . |
| 2 | London we passed through , on our way to and from school , but except during the half-term " long leave " from Eton we rarely spent a night there . |
| 3 | And of course , we duly kept the appointment . |
| 4 | We recently returned from a holiday in Barbados where we successfully completed the PADI certification for Open Water Diver . |
| 5 | ‘ We successfully politicized a generation of women — those now in their thirties . ’ |
| 6 | It was hard , but we badly needed the money the holiday lettings were bringing us . |
| 7 | Arsenal paid a bargain £40,000 for Peter in March 1981 after our 1st Division return had gone sour and we badly needed the cash , but he came back to Selhurst Park on loan in October 1983 and his tenacious and skilful experience was a key reason for our 2nd Division survival in that difficult season . |
| 8 | The next day we companionably photocopied the notes together . |
| 9 | When we eventually reached the Taj , I bent down to examine the inlay on the tombs more closely . |
| 10 | We eventually got the repairs done free of charge , despite the fact that we were on the verge of receiving a repair bill totalling £100 . |
| 11 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 12 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 13 | We eventually left the outback by way of some tiny townships , widely spaced , and came down onto the Queensland coast at the busy city of Townsville with a modern cylindrical building surmounted by a silvery roof feature . |
| 14 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 15 | But unless we eventually found a body , there would also be the possibility of simple flight . |
| 16 | Sally , after much thought , bought a small rosewood clock for her flat and we eventually found the car and headed for home . |
| 17 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
| 18 | I retaliated with detailed instructions on how to bowl off-breaks to left-handers on a drying pitch , and we eventually declared a truce as we watched the sun sink across the oil-storage tanks beyond the creek . |
| 19 | And we 're just looking at the route to In the previous er conditions of service we merely mentioned the time for which you were n't entitled to sick pay and the time after which you were entitled to full sick pay which we defined , we did n't define the route . |
| 20 | We gingerly broke the ice in the washing bowl , washed , changed and joined the others in the small refectory below . |
| 21 | Which was which was that we did n't take the whole of the vacant dwellings , we only took a part , even though we are not aware of any planning policy that will restrict occupation of dwellings as second homes . |
| 22 | We only played the pith and peel , the pieces at either end … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We went three goals up away from home , ended up scoring five and we only got a share of the points . |
| 24 | We only got the message this morning " |
| 25 | ‘ I mean , we only heard a bit . ’ |
| 26 | Mena did in her way , it was n't enough , she needed an educated person to put her case to — everybody ought to be allowed to put their case — we did n't even try to hear hers , we only heard the tone . |
| 27 | In 1981 the government declared a 10% increase in those factories where it was economically viable , but we only received a 5% rise and our factory was very well off in economic terms . |
| 28 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 29 | We only saw the adult shearwaters at sea and they looked a bit like a small Manx shearwater , but with a brownish tinge to the upper parts . |
| 30 | Heaven knows who we used to see at the Fitzroy Street parties : we did n't know half the people that were there : we only knew the family . |