Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987–88 this was not the case and we failed to predict a dramatic upturn in School of Business F T E s , principally as a consequence of students electing to take tourism modules as an extra-field choice . |
| 2 | Mr Jimmy Airlie , secretary of the Ford union side , said : ‘ We expected to get a favourable majority . |
| 3 | We now had to grapple with problems of ethics , with questions of morality and of personal philosophy , as we tried to draw a simple police code of practice together to frame those new deviancies created in the 1960s by the Acts of Parliament relating to drug use . |
| 4 | ‘ He was one of the top men we tried to keep a close eye on — when we could . |
| 5 | Clearly if we tried to apply a legal definition of ownership the asset belongs to Fred , however , unless the business is set up as a company in most countries the law does not recognize the separation of the business assets from those of the owner . |
| 6 | That is why already in 1968 , when I was first in government , we tried to develop a new hybrid of social justice and a market economy . |
| 7 | The coefficient of correlation value is good , considering that we tried to get a mathematical relationship from a physiological response . |
| 8 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 9 | Shipping came and went , nothing happened and we seemed to become a permanent part of the seascape . |
| 10 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 11 | To be certain that the and /bcl-2 cells that we studied lacked a functional respiratory chain , we tested their respiratory function in two ways . |
| 12 | ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up . |
| 13 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 14 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 15 | We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island . |
| 16 | We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 18 | We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’ |
| 19 | I thought we 'd got a good team . |
| 20 | and we 'd got a little old fellow with us , you know , well built very not very big but broad as what he was long . |
| 21 | And I suppose if we 'd got a clean sheet , and we started again , we 'd do it differently . |
| 22 | He told us we 'd got a yellow streak a yard wide down our backs . |
| 23 | ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music . |
| 24 | So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get . |
| 25 | Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ? |
| 26 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 27 | Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place . |
| 28 | We 'd had a little car before he got there . |
| 29 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 30 | Cos I did n't know how we 'd of managed if we 'd had a big one ! |