Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it turned out we accidently anticipated Xcelerated Systems trademarking the expression as the name for the technology underlying Liken , its pioneering two-year-old Mac-on-Unix product . |
| 2 | This year we successfully resisted enormous pressure from Iceland , Norway and Japan to lift the moratorium . |
| 3 | We badly needed new hymns , more critically translated , and I , with a Burmese colleague , was able to add something like eighty new hymns . |
| 4 | And erm we eventually got these things working and er I got the contract along with Jack to turn these pans over , you see ? |
| 5 | We eventually left seven hours later with our ears ringing . |
| 6 | We may have been led to finding those four paragraphs because they are , in fact , the divisions which actually appear in the original and we merely sought additional evidence to support the way the author had divided up his discourse . |
| 7 | and took over the mill and rationalised the business during the 50s and from then on we only sold branded products and compound feeds . |
| 8 | Because of the shortage of money , we only sent two backstrokers to Antwerp in 1920 , and I came third in the trials , which were held in the open air pool at Southport , now a children 's playground . |
| 9 | We only got one corner in the entire first half . |
| 10 | We only got one bag . |
| 11 | We only got one bag . |
| 12 | But the government was overridden by the Treasury , we only got 270 acres . |
| 13 | The second reason just if I could point erm we only learnt this morning of the landscape design erm where we understood that savings were being made by the four members of staff organisation . |
| 14 | Postage , stationery , fourteen O six raffle tickets , eleven pound , making a total of two thirty twenty six as against on the other side the income , three ninety six so we made a hundred and sixty six pound on on the open show which is a great increase on last year because last year we only made twelve pounds something twelve pound and a penny we made last year , so this is a great increase . |
| 15 | We read in the papers about the German war in Russia but we only knew one boy who was fighting there : Ada 's brother . |
| 16 | When a chance came up to do them early we took it , although it meant we only had nine working days to fit in with Magnox Shutdown . |
| 17 | We only had two days on Fregate and I could easily have spent at least a week . |
| 18 | erm I was reading about carrots , so I did n't get to finish it cos we only had two weeks . |
| 19 | We only had such wood as we could scrounge , and to light a fire with the bare minimum of paper and wood , plus uncooperative coke is difficult to say the least . |
| 20 | That 's right , yes I mean , the goalkeeper was fantastic first half , and really we only had one chance second half , and he made a great save from Fossey. erm First half , it was a case of just throwing himself into the right area and the ball was hitting his body and you know , he was just a good example of how to be a good goalkeeper . |
| 21 | The schoolchildren were split into seven standards or classes but we only had one room and one blackboard . |
| 22 | After my father left we only had each other and — and we moved a lot . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Actually , I 'm just happy to be where I am because after that early problem we only had 14 minutes of running , so it was a short session . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ On the sleeve of the first record it was meant to say just Therapy , but I started the logo too far over to the left — and we only had enough money for one sheet of Letraset — I could n't start again , so I just added a question mark to make it fit . |
| 25 | We only had three Sisters , about eight staff nurses , a few ward orderlies and fortunately eight doctors were within call . |
| 26 | So for eighteen months we only met three times , when he visited during his leaves . |
| 27 | ‘ We only arrived this afternoon — I think that 's the best plan . ’ |
| 28 | It was dark and in our haste we only lit one candle . |
| 29 | Fortunately an adept four-minute tyre change and an elastic band — to give some resilience to full throttle — meant we only lost three minutes on that section . |
| 30 | The house seemed quite grand but we only stayed one night as the following afternoon we entrained for Preston , a journey that took so long , I wondered if we would ever arrive . |