Example sentences of "we [vb past] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well obviously week one is just informal , sorting out any problems with time tables changing the records etcetera we agreed on that . |
| 2 | I du n no you , yeah , you just sort of got ta say ob obviously you want to think about it , obviously it 's , you know it 's a lot of money , you know , but are you happy with the window , is it , you know , is it the sort of style of the win , you know , is it the sort of style of the window , we , we , I du n no , we agreed on this sort of style , is it the , you know , the sort of style that goes , goes with it , go through sort of one or two what and find out what , what it is they really want to think about |
| 3 | ‘ We met on this show , got married , and now we 're getting divorced because I earn more money than him . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , sir , last market-day we met on this road at the same time , and I said ‘ Good night ’ and you answered ‘ Good night , Sir John ’ , as you did just now . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It was a little bit negative and we pounced on that . ’ |
| 6 | His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves . |
| 7 | Well the fact that we 've got three there , there there that 's how many we got on that card and we were quite happy about that . |
| 8 | So we got on that bus , and he did n't like it , this bus driver , oh , you 're not supposed to be on here |
| 9 | And we got on this subject . |
| 10 | Then we got on some horses , and rode away through the night . |
| 11 | We drew on this analysis to explain the performances of HWIM and HARPY . |
| 12 | We drew on these aspects in developing our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 13 | Can I ask you Mr we we reported on this programme yesterday morning that an official from the Inspectorate of Pollution had expressed worries that the scheme could cause more pollution . |
| 14 | And I think if we concentrated on that , otherwise even with the publicity group , you 'd end up with them saying well what |
| 15 | First of all it was just covering the North Atlantic , the eastern seaboard of the States , perhaps Greenland and Iceland , and Europe down as far as North Africa , and erm we concentrated on that part of the atmosphere , but of course the atmosphere is continuous all round the globe , and whatever happens in any part of that atmosphere , any part of the globe , has some affect on the rest of the atmosphere . |
| 16 | Er , we built on those sectors , during the er , past year with the initial uncertainty on the B Sky B situation er , we have been managing erm , our way through the recession , you 've heard from Frank er , about the er , immediate short term measures we 've taken . |
| 17 | After cutting out other drier , sun-lightened ends , we painted on some strands of High Lift Blonde Tint . |
| 18 | just got into Wales and we camped on that flat land and then we went up the riv , oh we 've got it on the |
| 19 | It was interesting to compare the performance of my tourer bike and the mountain bikes we hired on these roads . |
| 20 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 21 | We came on this trip to take back children . |
| 22 | These are just a few of the very many amusing , illuminating and thoughtful letters we received on this subject . |
| 23 | We arrived on this job , first floor , and we went and opened the door . |
| 24 | And if we overate on any one of them then any surplus energy would end up by making us fat . |
| 25 | We happened on some good 'uns , and we happened on some sort of funny ones when we goo round . |
| 26 | We happened on some good 'uns , and we happened on some sort of funny ones when we goo round . |
| 27 | We got advice from the officers that three point five percent might be achieved and therefore we we acted on that advice in making the amendments which we did . |
| 28 | All the money we spent on this stuff , ’ she indicated her drink , ’ could 've floated a battleship over the years . ’ |
| 29 | In any case , we embarked on this definitional enterprise with the warning that satisfactory definitions of academic fields are rarely available , and the purpose was simply to sketch the sorts of concerns , and the sorts of boundary issues , with which pragmaticists are implicitly concerned . |
| 30 | Do any of the districts want to be drawn on a choice or are you still maintaining the line which you have persisted in maintaining since we embarked on this discussion on Thursday , where we have two districts well sorry , Mr and Mr not agreeing in principle with the new settlement . |