Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two thirds of all the teenagers we interviewed agreed that sex education at school missed out too much . |
| 2 | Tommy 'd ask me how much money we 'd done that day . |
| 3 | When we 'd finished that night Dad gave us tuppence to go the first half at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 4 | If we 'd fought that election on the trade union agenda , we would have won a lot more votes than the campaign issues chosen by the professionals . |
| 5 | I would imagine that if we 'd suggested that project engineering duties would beco |
| 6 | ‘ The band had only been together a couple of months before we started recording that album , so we did n't have time to think about it too much — we just went in and did it . |
| 7 | This has been talked through but with both the Social Services and the the hospital and er we decided to take that chance . |
| 8 | This has been talked through but with both the Social Services and the the er hospital and er we decided to take that chance . |
| 9 | ‘ For the past five years we have been working hard to turn the London International Book Fair into a major event in the publishing calendar , rather than just another exhibition , and I think this year we managed to achieve that aim , ’ reflected LIBF director Brian Bradford at the end of the 22nd fair . |
| 10 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 11 | We did we did evaluate that option er as part of the er early assessments , I do n't have the results today . |
| 12 | Yeah , we did have that quote , but there were other things on it . |
| 13 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 14 | Indeed , an extraction set may not be based on the denotation of any noun explicitly mentioned at all ; an equally valid extraction set for ( 19 ) might be the creatures we had shot that day . |
| 15 | Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next . |
| 16 | Holmes went on to tell them about what we had seen that morning . |
| 17 | Ultimately we were given that assurance and er we were quite proud of the fact that , you know , the members had gone along with us on the proviso that we had got that principle you know , to establish . |
| 18 | But we if we used a tin of bully beef we had to supply that tin of bully beef out of our own seven and six pence . |
| 19 | We then realized that we had to change that image , if you like to call it that , because we were n't really living normal lives any more . |
| 20 | A day-trip from Phuket had only whetted our appetite and we had left that tourist ghetto by local bus and moved into a hot and grubby Chinese hotel in Phang Nga town . |
| 21 | ‘ We would not , I believe , if we had had that situation , have had the strength to deal with the Falklands , with Iraq and with the economic difficulties that we had in the early 1980s , ’ he said . |