Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually managed to reconcile the figures , when we took into account the large number of people who had volunteered to serve on regular engagements in order to participate , but who had been trained as territorial soldiers . |
| 2 | We only had to watch the ladies final at Telford at the end of last year to see how bad our tennis has become . |
| 3 | We literally started building the cars in the corner of the workshop . ’ |
| 4 | Our players were magnificent in defence in the second half and we somehow managed to keep the Irish out ’ — RICHARD GACHES ( Thurrock captain ) after the shock defeat of London Irish in the Pilkington Cup third round . |
| 5 | Whenever a new manager was brought in to take charge of them , they refused to co-operate : in the end we just had to take the porters on . ’ |
| 6 | The wind freshened from astern off Rudha Reidh and we just managed to beat a south westerly gale into Loch Ewe where we were weatherbound for the next two days . |
| 7 | The regulars and the heavy mob from Fleet Street arrived and we just managed to catch the last train to Cambridge . |
| 8 | Wolsey sent the fellow down to escort these strange guests up and we just sat watching the door . |
| 9 | We knew we could do better than that , so we just decided to take the time and not put anything out we were n't happy with . ’ |
| 10 | When my Group first met in the summer of 1988 we soon decided to divide the English curriculum into three profile components : |
| 11 | Anxious to film the final " fire " scene , we desperately tried to overtake the tail of the throng making its way back along the narrow causeway , but our legs were betraying us . |
| 12 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 13 | We always enjoyed watching the Mah Jong players too , in the cafés and restaurants , and seated at tables on the waterfront . |
| 14 | We always had given a concert . |
| 15 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 16 | And he always had a pot of linseed and black Spanish , and we always had to have a drink of this , cos he thought it was fantastic . |
| 17 | Off camera , we always seemed to have a laugh . |
| 18 | We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round . |
| 19 | But as soon as we hit with something that was n't what we were about , we always tried to get the band back to what we thought it should be — three guitars and drums played loud by four New York bums . |
| 20 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 21 | Remote though this area can be , even the minor roads are generally good , although we once had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to HIGH to increase ground clearance through a ford . |
| 22 | We had barely forty minutes there , but we still managed to walk the whole huge complex , even climbing to the top of the smaller Pyramid of the Moon . |
| 23 | In January , February and March there was deep snow , but we still had to spend an hour outside every day . |
| 24 | With the less-than-reliable weather we have been known to experience rom time to time during the course of a season — it never ceases to amaze me how we ever managed to invent a game like cricket in England — an artificial pitch can be extremely valuable in enabling play to take place when otherwise it might not have done . |
| 25 | There was no one in sight so we carefully started to collect the ripest ones . |
| 26 | As his confidence grew we carefully started to build a player able to play for the others . |
| 27 | We also sought to provide a link for residents of Murieston to Livingston centre while the Murieston area is still developing , rather than wait for the completion of this housing area before taking action . |
| 28 | We also hoped to obtain a specimen of the cuberow , the so-called Abyssinian wolf , an animal like a large fox which was confined to some of the higher mountains in Abyssinia . |
| 29 | We also went to see the Museo do Pobo Galego , which has fascinating exhibits on rural life , including horréos or granaries , which are found in almost every country garden and look like a stone garden shed on stilts . |
| 30 | We also wished to explore the viability of holding a more formal conference devoted to the topic of peace as a mode of social behaviour . |