Example sentences of "we [vb past] [conj] [noun] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in 1.4 we argued that monism is more suited to opaque than transparent styles of writing , and the same point may be made about pluralism . |
| 2 | In Chapter 14 we argued that people are typically risk-averse and dislike risk . |
| 3 | In the detailed cross-tabulations for our main survey ( not always included in Appendix I ) , we found that women were much more likely to say they did not know what sort of interest rate to expect , and to say they did not understand interest rates well . |
| 4 | We found that practices were very diverse , that people had different impressions , not only of what ought to be done , but what was in fact being done . |
| 5 | This seemed rather extreme to us until we discovered that Bira was indeed one of the most heavily python-infested regions in all Celebes . |
| 6 | Well we lost but things are n't too bad . |
| 7 | ‘ We thought that acquisitions were very important to do right now because of the economy — we have a short-term window . |
| 8 | ‘ There were times when we thought that Mandy was very seriously ill . |
| 9 | For over five years , news from CCG has come under the banner What 's Cooking ? , but as the company has grown to include a wide range of other services as well as catering , we felt that title was no longer appropriate . |
| 10 | ‘ As wholesalers we felt that Billingsgate was not offering us the facilities we needed , ’ he explains . |
| 11 | Then , with the return of the sheep to the village grazings , we knew that winter was once more upon us . |
| 12 | We decided to abandon the piano lessons , Constance , ’ Miss Hatherby chided , ‘ as you well recall , because we knew that progress was not being made . |
| 13 | We knew that jobs were not easy to obtain … we could n't afford to risk getting the sack . |