Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rushed downstairs , and burst into the living room : ‘ I hear we 've invaded Sicily ! ’ |
| 2 | But you see we 've had U er P V C before . |
| 3 | See we 've got air bricks up around ours . |
| 4 | Er well it there 's you see we 've got Wrexham is a good sized town ! |
| 5 | We need we 've got lot 's more questions to ask you . |
| 6 | Repeatedly we had cursed ourselves and our schools for allowing us to think we 'd grasped maths , physics and so on when now we could n't remember any of the important or useful things . |
| 7 | She was very patient but we 'd lost time . |
| 8 | so and UFAF , UFAF is , is a , in fact UFAF I felt quite pleased about in a way because we 'd , we 'd analyzed Maggie and I had analyzed the documents and Jane and I and Graham and I had spoken about it as well , that they are principally interested in unemployed volunteers |
| 9 | In fact initially the erm if we 'd followed Government guidelines exactly , the rents would have had to have gone up by even more , by about twelve pounds a week , but because erm we were able to erm manage the finances erm more carefully , we were able to reduce that increase to seven pounds a week , but none of the Labour Councillors would say that that increase is acceptable . |
| 10 | Especially when I wept after we 'd made love . |
| 11 | He said something must have happened and that — ’ Ashley moistened her lips ‘ — we 'd made love . |
| 12 | If we 'd seen loads and loads of Soviet bodies , we would have felt it was true . |
| 13 | And we 'd seen photographs of these and they were marvellous , and he said to me , I should like to see these fl these flats , he said er , I 'm gon na convince the Board that it 's necessary in the interests of the firm for me to go to Austria , you see . |
| 14 | R r right around the country in all sorts of different locations , we 'd seen applications coming forward on a speculative basis . |
| 15 | Sarah said , ‘ We 'd heard rumours . ’ |
| 16 | When we 'd checked the recording we 'd heard Sinatra singing ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 17 | So by the end of the day , we 'd met Sam , we knew her , we 'd been in her house , we 'd looked around her house . |
| 18 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |
| 19 | How it turned out was that we er , I was attending the , what was called the Secondary Modern School and we 'd moved premises from up to . |
| 20 | This time we 'd sought peace and quiet after a hectic time in Cornwall and Lundy , and the comfortable marina at Neyland was just the job . |
| 21 | " What a shame to lose him , though , " said Dandelion , " just when we 'd reached Fiver 's hills without losing anyone . |
| 22 | I thought we 'd killed Zodiac Mindwarp . |
| 23 | Which are quite frightening about opting out , erm some of you will remember that we 'd attended Welwyn Garden City on a picket a month ago , and erm as a result of campaigning there , within the hospital , with the press and the Council , they have been turned down so they are not being allowed to opt out . |
| 24 | We 'd gone miles , then saw your tracks going in the opposite direction , so we doubled back . ’ |
| 25 | Was it a good decision to airfreight an order because we 'd messed things up on the plant ? ’ |
| 26 | Lacking axes or crampons we 'd kicked steps up the snowy approach gully the afternoon before and checked out the devious ladders and chains forming the descent from the summit . |
| 27 | Well I , we 'd finished lunch and erm he , he , er I just said to him , what would you like ? |
| 28 | Of course , once we got into government a great many of our ambitions and aims and the ideas we 'd seized hold of from talking to the Americans , people like Robert McNamara for instance , of the American Department of Defense , came up against the realities of Whitehall . |
| 29 | I think it was because er th cos we 'd got Iris ' er er Triumph did n't we ? |
| 30 | Erm it it could have been a problem if we 'd have both been so me materialistic that we wanted to keep everything we 'd got hold of you know . |