Example sentences of "we [vb past] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our target route — the splendid Tudor Rose , which takes a stunning line up of the best section of the cliff above Guillemot Ledge — remained unfulfilled , as we found handling a clutch of fine HVS and VS routes fully occupied our energies , leaving us totally sated . |
| 2 | Certainly the lack of skill we encountered synchronising the flashing light bulbs with the voice patterns was not terribly successful in that quite often they were way out of phase . |
| 3 | We stopped taking the Magnet and the Gem and the Boy 's Own Paper . |
| 4 | That was the reason we that was when we stopped using the turtle stuff . |
| 5 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 6 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 7 | We tried using the machine angled to cut an edge , but the handle prevents extended use in this mode . |
| 8 | ‘ At about the time we finished making The Knack , ’ said Richard Lester , ‘ I bought the book of How I Won the War , by Patrick Ryan , and started work with Charles Wood on a screenplay , with Michael in mind as the lead . |
| 9 | When we finished decorating the tree , we stuck all the prezzies underneath and Annie told me what she reckoned they was . |
| 10 | joined me and we began discussing the forthcoming birth and what it would be like to have two children . |
| 11 | In 1979 we began pioneering the direct mail concept at constituency level with my wife Marlies at first typing and then working the word processor and computer . |
| 12 | We began producing the big catalogues to go with the shows . |
| 13 | I pay tribute to the Association of British Insurers , to which we began talking a couple of years ago . |
| 14 | We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew . |
| 15 | I think it probably bothered me later when we started getting a bit bigger . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We thought we might have to spend the night down there and that 's when we started getting a bit worried , ’ he said . |
| 17 | In the old days before we started building the bridge they used to fetch up on a bend about two miles down . |
| 18 | When we started building the university twenty years ago we encountered a very unusual problem . |
| 19 | We started singing a carol . |
| 20 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 21 | We found this again when we started recording the Beethoven symphonies with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London . |
| 22 | ‘ Every time we started doing a piece of research , ’ said an NCC officer , ‘ we 'd find the CEGB then commissioned another research team to investigate the same thing . ’ |
| 23 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 24 | The other thing on that sort of erm side is that this is the first survey which we 've had since we started doing the survey in nineteen eighty eight when the first numbers were compiled , it 's the first survey which we 've had where the majority of regions ' manufacturers say that their unit costs have already fallen , erm we have n't seen that before , so the majority of regions said that the costs had fallen . |
| 25 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 26 | It 's called the Tripyer Shield and it 's a local amateur thing Eccles and District and to win it it 's like winning the F A Cup and this G M B team that we started we lost about three or four matches and we started losing the players , so when you do n't lock the doors and you 'd end up with about seven players and you 'd think is it worth bothering ? |
| 27 | ‘ We started having a row . |
| 28 | We started making a profit . |
| 29 | For the first ten minutes of the second half , we started playing a bit ( but at this time we needed 4 goals to go thorough ) and Whelan scored after a good cross by Kelly . |
| 30 | Well why do you think we kept turning the music down ? ? |