Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , he 's got to get motivated cos if we 're going away we got to save some pennies up and if we commit ourselves then we 've got to save pennies up , it 's no good coming and saying to me you 're going away next week , I shall turn round and say sod you matey we 're not cos we 've got no bloody money . |
| 2 | When we went to Portugal there was er a lass , we 'd saved some money and I said , I said do n't spend it all |
| 3 | ‘ He gave me a cheque once , after we 'd done some work on the pool at ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 4 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 5 | ‘ When we got that first call from the company , we thought they were going to sue us because we 'd used some samples on a record without clearing them , ’ laughs Geoff . |
| 6 | And we 'd had some pearls I said , I said I do n't remember buying you that , she said oh yes , she said you |
| 7 | And I remember one year , we 'd had some Webbs Curly lettuce and I was We had a good crop and I remember one lady who stayed in and she come used to come Well practically every other days for six of these . |
| 8 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 9 | We started to organise some fund raising events to buy some extra equipment for the hospital . |
| 10 | We decided to grab some lunch on the hoof . |
| 11 | The inclusion of these provisions in the plan were referred to by Rafsanjani in a speech on Oct. 8 , when he reported that " we decided to make some amendments in the plan ( which had been completed in an earlier draft form by the previous government of Prime Minister Hossein Moussavi ) under the new atmosphere " . |
| 12 | We managed to get some sugar last month , did n't we , Lilian ? ’ |
| 13 | However , we did find some manufacturing organizations , all in engineering , employing temporary workers in highly skilled positions . |
| 14 | Although we did receive some sheet music , we mainly got tapes . |
| 15 | This saved us hours of back-breaking work ( though we did lose some concrete in odd places ) . |
| 16 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 17 | We did get some rates from Glasgow did n't we ? |
| 18 | We did get some sales , but actually it felt like we were giving the series away . |
| 19 | In spite of our happy experiences with SBA , the electronic throttle and the electronic linkage , we did have some problems with the Same 's performance monitor . |
| 20 | Well we did have some rain but |
| 21 | By participating at an early stage , we hoped to have some influence on the national agenda . |
| 22 | We had to lift some floorboards and they turned out to need replacing . |
| 23 | We had , we had bring some water to cool you down it was really hot that day |
| 24 | We had studied some navigation but now had the chance to try it out in more detail . |
| 25 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 26 | We had to fix some management problems . ’ |
| 27 | He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon . |
| 28 | So we had to get some ways to try and get something down . |
| 29 | Together with some other Christian communities , we had bought some land outside the city and some 300 families went to live and farm there , It was called " El Paraiso " and was organized as a co-operative with all the work and profits shared , It was my idea of a truly authentic community . |
| 30 | We had paid some money to the police to look after us and they were also taking money from the journalists , and giving us their news , and ours to them ! |