Example sentences of "we [vb past] [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 2 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 3 | And as for all special schools there is an obligation to provide a scheme for local management of special schools with effect from April this year er we consulted there was a little bit of chasing which had to take place in which you can see in section four of the report but following that chasing , we now ascertain meeting schools on favourable proposals for or against and once a week that , a view of and also undertaking as you know . |
| 4 | I am quite convinced that everyone we met there was each other 's cousin . |
| 5 | As soon as we met there was a marvellous rapport . |
| 6 | I mean one of the points we made there was that the infrastructure is vulnerable . |
| 7 | It was n't long before we realised there were many other talents around who wanted to be part of it . |
| 8 | ‘ Then we realised there were plenty of tourists who could also use our products , so we took a risk and opened the shop . |
| 9 | Yeah they were building them when we got there were n't they ? |
| 10 | And er when we got there there was a little chit-chat about that . |
| 11 | Then we realized there was a man inside ! |
| 12 | However , as discussed in Part B of this report , we found there is increasingly debate as to the overall benefits of such centralised operations ( and , indeed , of the notion of head office-based corporate planning departments per se ) . |
| 13 | If we found there was no basis in our opinion , we would scrub it . |
| 14 | We found there were no friends among colleagues and no one to talk it out with . |
| 15 | It was a starry night , and as we swam there was light in the water , sparkling , rippling , starlight playing on our fingers and the smooth seal-like lines of our bodies . |
| 16 | We recognised there was a need to ensure quality and consistency in everything we did , to be able to point out to our customers how we do things , and where necessary to be audited on these procedures . |
| 17 | In all the countries we studied there is a need to work toward developing more rational and systematic personnel systems that recognize that there are many types and levels of jobs in the social services and that clarify the nature of these jobs and the specific skills and knowledge required to perform them . |
| 18 | When we arrived there were only about 20 people in the audience and he was n't dressed in a dress . |
| 19 | Medic Mike Jackson said : ‘ When we arrived there was total chaos but officers had administered emergency first aid and did a good job stemming the blood and calming the girl . ’ |
| 20 | We reckoned there were at least 12,000 and the total over the weekend topped the 20,000 mark . |
| 21 | We heard there was shooting and shelling in a part of Sarajevo we knew well . |
| 22 | ‘ In most cases that we heard there was no real problem , but in some cases there was fire so we decided to have the recall as a purely precautionary move . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , we heard there was a shooting . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We discovered there were elms which we could use on the Floors Estate and so the Duke agreed to sell them to us . ’ |
| 25 | As we talked there was a shout from one of the other khalifas ; the first fight was about to begin . |
| 26 | The counselling development worker , Fiona McRae , adds : ‘ When we started there was only one other agency offering counselling that was completely free , and that was for the whole of Edinburgh . |
| 27 | Shift manager : When we started there were an awful lot of sceptics who said ‘ How can we train and run the factory at the same time ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We decided there was nothing wrong in £1 on something like the Grand National , ’ she said . |
| 29 | I thought we decided there was n't any need to have a mental picture — a picture of the wonkyness of the three-dimensional space around the Sun , or Earth . |
| 30 | A spokesman for the City 's surveyors department said : ‘ There was an element of confusion after the blast because the Chamber of Shipping building had partially collapsed and we thought there might be similar damage to the Baltic . |