Example sentences of "we [vb past] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
| 2 | ‘ But we realised more work was needed on teaching people how to design and implement effectively the training necessary to fill gaps . ’ |
| 3 | So we got more money and then mum and dad were and me and my brother are supposed to have . |
| 4 | I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines . |
| 5 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 6 | I thought we were gon na do better this year than last year cos we got more children but it 's like wo working , . |
| 7 | Books were included in the W H Smith catalogue for the second consecutive year , which proved ‘ popular with our customers , and we reckon we got more sales out of it ’ . |
| 8 | We visited more hides , followed a winding stream , were shown the favourite skulking haunt of a water rail and listened ( with no luck ) for its ‘ lilo-emptying ’ squeal . |
| 9 | Above all , we provided more care . |
| 10 | We built more hospitals and moved decisively away from the terrible stop-go years of the 1970s when capital budgets were slashed . |
| 11 | ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . ) |
| 12 | Before departing , we added more tape to the top of the fuselage , where it had come loose . |
| 13 | Towards the end of the research on The Child Wants a Home project we noted more flexibility in the way in which placements were effected . |
| 14 | What happened during the 1980s was that we measured more things , more systematically , and published the measurements to an extent not seen before . |
| 15 | But I do n't mind confessing that after a few honeymoon months we stalled more times than we took off … if you take my meaning . ’ |
| 16 | Walking past trees and hedgerows we heard more bird song , blackbird , song thrush , robin . |
| 17 | Because we had more money , we spent more money last time , we bought a erm a men 's and a lady 's watch and that went down a treat . |
| 18 | The total number , though far higher than in earlier studies , is not so significant ; after all , we spent more time tracking in deep water than all previous studies put together . |
| 19 | Fortunately , we spent more time mountaineering than sailing . |
| 20 | We ordered more supplies of the cheap red wine and decided that the 2.30 ferry would have to go without us . |
| 21 | Faith was done with old-fashioned equipment ; we needed more equipment to do the water-crossings ahead . |
| 22 | We needed more freedom , more room to move . |
| 23 | ‘ My God , woman , you were the one who said we needed more space . ’ |
| 24 | It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing . |
| 25 | We both decided that we needed more detector users to help us on the day , so John contacted members of the Shropshire Antiquities Group , who were more than willing to lend a helping hand . |
| 26 | There were times when we needed more privacy … ’ |
| 27 | I felt that we needed more energy on record . |
| 28 | ‘ Thanks to Mrs Ashley we employed more people , the weavers were paid overtime and we enjoyed an Indian summer for a good few years . |
| 29 | We could not have sustained many Nuremburgs when we lost more aircrew in one night than was lost in the entire Battle of Britain ( in several months ) . |
| 30 | ‘ With unemployment we thought more men would have come forward . |