Example sentences of "and we [verb] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation was changing so fast and we hoped we might find ourselves in this situation . ’ |
| 2 | The pace is leisurely , and we guarantee you 'll come back a lot fitter than when you left ! |
| 3 | We had another week before the Festival and we figured we could hitch ourselves a ride the last leg of the way on a fast freight loader from Exalfa City . ’ |
| 4 | So , we could have somebody start at twenty pound a month and we know we can make a profit and we can provide a good service to the clients , a good level of cover . |
| 5 | ‘ But their spinners are pretty useful and we know we will have to bat well second time around . ’ |
| 6 | We will be able to provide the equipment he needs to lead a normal life , and we know he 'll want for nothing in the future . ’ |
| 7 | We were allowed to take the boat out ourselves by then as long as we wore life-jackets and we thought we might do that , later ; get in some fishing or just some pottering around . |
| 8 | ‘ For a time he was fighting for his life and we thought we might lose him . |
| 9 | ‘ And we thought we could make a birthday tea for him , ’ said Peter . |
| 10 | Steve Brown 's name came up , and we thought we 'd do one track with him , but we got on great , which solved that problem . |
| 11 | ’ We wrote the single after moving into a little village and seeing all the people driving to their office jobs and we thought we 'd have a go at them ’ |
| 12 | Oh very good , yes , aha , so er Jim 's been very busy with his talks and different things and er we packed in , you know , after Christmas cos we both worked and we thought we 'd have it , you know , and we caught this flu bug and |
| 13 | Well I 'm going to buy the two and I 'm going to buy the two boys pyjamas and two girls night shirts and we thought you 'd buy the slippers . |
| 14 | Spey Valley Rotary Club were a good team and we knew we would have our work cut-out . |
| 15 | He 's probably the most astute politician in the Middle East , and we knew we could do business with him . |
| 16 | As a matter of fact , I was talking to him briefly this afternoon and we agreed we 'd have a chat some time . |
| 17 | In the event , we had to return at separate times and as the friend , Mr. Robin Townsend , was to cross first , he took the plastic ticket and we agreed he would arrange to have the ticket divided , and leave my part at your Ostend office . |
| 18 | They used water wisely then and we hope they will continue to . |
| 19 | That 's what in , in , in ground terms it means and we hope they will respond . |
| 20 | Commenting on the grant , Alex Wright of the Commission said , ‘ We welcome this grant and we hope it will assist Lancashire County Council in opening up the rights of way network by dealing with several major problems and paths that need modifications . ’ |
| 21 | Saints ' chairman Eric Latham said today : ‘ Nobody at St Helens has been offered a better contract than Gary Connolly and we hope he will sign it , but that is up to Gary . |
| 22 | HE has already won novice chases at Cheltenham and Bangor and we hope he will win a few more , although he could n't cope with Barton Bank at Worcester recently . |
| 23 | This is a very valuable method of following up the initial contact and we hope you will agree that this may continue . |
| 24 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |
| 25 | My mum and I voted my dad out and we said we 'll have a record player . |
| 26 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 27 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |
| 28 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ The council has been capped this year and we felt it would have been incredibly insensitive to spend money on road races when some council workers are facing the prospect of losing their jobs . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But we 've got our pride back after beating Blackburn and we believe we can overcome anybody on our day at Ayresome Park . ’ |