Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm one of the things we agreed to do was to compile a list . |
| 2 | All we got to do is enter , enter the horses in you get a paper called the Calendar . |
| 3 | All we got to do is keep it up , till the contact in . |
| 4 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 5 | bits of where we 'd lived were scattered |
| 6 | At one level we discovered time being spent on different curriculum areas in similar proportions to those recorded by HMI and by other research projects . |
| 7 | Really , what we needed to do was to read through make sure that it was covered adequately but on the other hand , if they 've come across something twice and not if i , if it was in brackets I did n't count it , did you do |
| 8 | But what we decided to do was to replace the entire water main erm with erm a double , a double capacity pipeline . |
| 9 | I found that my house had been used as a barracks , everything we possessed has been destroyed . |
| 10 | The use of zeolites in soil treatment remains one of the options we are actively exploring , as we made clear in our article ; none of the possibilities we discussed have been ruled out . |
| 11 | but I said that you know eighteen might be a push but I would n't be surprised if we got twelve or fourteen at that time of course we had n't actually had any education events cos the one that we scheduled has been cancelled so I was perhaps a bit naive about how many people actually turn out to these things |
| 12 | ‘ What we had done was to manufacture this and other statistical indices to allow us to prove our point and push a particular policy line , irrespective of the economic realities of the country , ’ says Budhoo , who claims that such ‘ errors ’ were commonplace within the Fund . |
| 13 | After dropping off my bags , all we had to do was to return the cab . |
| 14 | We decided one of our first things we had to do was decide on a sequence of construction for these tanks . |
| 15 | The first thing we had to do was to repent of our childish attitude . |
| 16 | All we had to do was sign our name to it . |
| 17 | In our own ignorance all we thought we had to do was to educate these people so ERA also established a ‘ health task force ’ . |
| 18 | We thought all we had to do was bring the right things from the Store , but we brought a lot of wrong things too . |
| 19 | If all we had to do was to legislate against social evils Mr Dalgliesh for one would be out of work . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ All we had to do was take a basketful of poison-tipped bamboos into the mountains and stake them diagonally into the ground , right across the width of the valley . |
| 21 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had ordered most of the stuff from a local catering firm and all we had to do was add the finishing touches to make it look Roman . |
| 22 | All we had to do was to patrol up and down the nets , take out the rabbits and wait for daylight . |
| 23 | In James Watson 's account ( 1970 ) of the discovery of the structure of DNA — where the non-scientist expects to find strictly-controlled and logically-sequenced reasoning — there is an element of play : ‘ All we had to do was to construct a set of molecular models and begin to play ’ ( ibid . |
| 24 | All we had to do was to pay the expense of the helicopter that brought him in because at that time he was appearing at the Prince of Wales and it was a matter of him fitting his time in with his performances , you see ? |
| 25 | The work , work something something scheme and and they , they 'd refurbish it , all th th that we had to do was to pay for the materials , they provided the labour . |
| 26 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 27 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
| 28 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 29 | , my new work colleague , took us to our new home where he and his wife had organised the house and furniture for us — all we had to do was unpack the 20 crates of personal belongings ! |
| 30 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |