Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I would totally support the move that you 're suggesting Mr Chairman , if we are asked to provide another one percent or whatever can be done , erm , I would suggest that the obvious way to get that money would be to offer them the ten thousand that we agreed to spend this morning . |
| 2 | We tried to test this hypothesis with respect to the use of three other forms of " flexible labour " , namely part-time workers , home workers and freelance workers by employers of temporary workers . |
| 3 | When the hundred came up it weas from a very different Hick and Worcestershhire to what we 'd seen this morning . |
| 4 | Well , up until we 'd received this letter from er the new chairman designate , er Bob Reid , not seriously at all . |
| 5 | Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps . |
| 6 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
| 7 | I thought we 'd won this time . ’ |
| 8 | It was quite cheap , though , and he said , erm , I think we 'll start with mine , because I always find Bulgarian a little bit acidic , and we 'd bought this bottle , and we both went out to the kitchen and both said gosh . |
| 9 | In our final Report we decided to excise this list of authors because , as we explained , it had attracted so much unfortunate attention . |
| 10 | We produced there only fancy leathers However , two years ago , we decided to close this plant in mainly because I 'm getting fairly old nowadays and my son had many activities to take charge of . |
| 11 | You can drive via 90-mile beach but it 's a rough road , so we decided to do this excursion as a day trip on a bus , and this proved good value . |
| 12 | In 1991 we decided to end this duopoly . |
| 13 | We decided to investigate this area with a purely elderly group of patients . |
| 14 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 15 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 16 | We went to see this bloke called Tom he was n't there , he was erm |
| 17 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 18 | And er we went to move this lady , we got there about I suppose quarter past eight time , a summer 's day , nice day it was . |
| 19 | We did make we did make this point to Keith actually very very clearly , |
| 20 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 21 | But we did have this idea that the whole tribe went around together . |
| 22 | We did have this problem before but we started earlier did n't we ? |
| 23 | Yes Chairman , we we did have this debate in er budget review as I remember it . |
| 24 | We aimed to test this system on a YAC containing a known coding sequence as a test case . |
| 25 | We elected to include this patient in the study since the entire remaining right colon had active ulcerative colitis . |
| 26 | We had developed this principle by joining lumps of plastic explosive together with some machine gun cartridges to make a simple anti-personnel charge . |
| 27 | We had decided this part would be tough , and for once we were right . |
| 28 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 29 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 30 | And we had to shift this lot . |