Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We 'd better drain the fuel out , ’ said Dorcas firmly , as they walked under the shadow of the lorry . |
| 32 | Well as you 're here , we 'd better take a look at you . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ We 'd better get a cab , ’ he said . |
| 34 | Yeah I think we 'd better get a couple of lots and , cos we do n't know what they 're gon na like do we really ? |
| 35 | We 'd better get a group working on it . |
| 36 | Well , we did n't draw the short-straw but the weather was cold and windy and the course was playing long and tricky . |
| 37 | We did n't exchange a word , or even a glance . |
| 38 | ‘ We did n't make a wager , ’ she said quickly . |
| 39 | I assume we did n't make a loss on it . |
| 40 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
| 41 | We did n't make a sale , though we did make contacts that would n't have been available to us otherwise . |
| 42 | We did n't make a move without approval of the Buying Room at Ipswich , this was the power base of the Company , the team was led by ( Mr Jim ) , ( Pop ) and . |
| 43 | ‘ He ca n't say that we did n't make an attempt . ’ |
| 44 | Last season we did n't make the play offs . |
| 45 | We did n't make the decision to find out , look I 've got a complimentary ticket , and perhaps I do n't have to queue here , perhaps I might have to , but I 'll go and find out . |
| 46 | It was n't how you might think — we did n't want a witness , we did n't want to show off that we were in love ; he was just easy to be with . |
| 47 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 48 | No we had a reasonably good dinner and , and we did n't want no tea when we come home , this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we 'd have a bowl of soup , erm , we stuffed ourselves , we had toast and breakfast erm , we had one or two sweets in the hospital , er while we were waiting and then er , we went to Asda and then we got er |
| 49 | When Chelsea turned out on a Saturday afternoon , if we did n't lock the door , we had all the football fans in the shop trying to nick stuff and screaming obscenities . |
| 50 | ‘ So I auditioned for them and they auditioned for me and we got to like each other and at that stage we did n't give a shit what each other looked like , we just realised that there was talent there . |
| 51 | I wondered why we did n't do a bit more for them . |
| 52 | ‘ Contrary to marriage guidance advice , we did n't do a lot of talking things through afterwards . |
| 53 | Well we did n't do a lot of that er except gi giving advice wh when we just sort of er going round as a midwife . |
| 54 | Just glad we did n't do the hall . |
| 55 | Oh we did n't , we did n't do the ozone layer one did we ? |
| 56 | We did n't stand a chance — England were going to get away with anything . |
| 57 | We were greeted by unnaturally cheerful ranger , who told us that there were 56 people on the list ahead of us so we did n't stand a chance and that it would probably rain anyway . |
| 58 | A spokesman said : ‘ You would think the councillors would want the support of 400 of its electorate , but it was obvious from the outset we did n't stand a chance , ’ he said . |
| 59 | But the thing was , what I , what I was ge getting to last night , is that we did n't bring the name into it , the surname . |
| 60 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |