Example sentences of "we [vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed that it was indeed a fine day — a perfect day . |
| 2 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me in Brighton when we met that I was n't in the team ? |
| 3 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 4 | We asked and we were n't told . |
| 5 | Nice is Wendy house , that we got when we were up in Yorkshire were n't it ? |
| 6 | Then , I do n't know how many years we had down the street , but we moved when I was about six years old up the street near the church . |
| 7 | ‘ As far as the clothing is concerned , it 's all in the reports , but to save you time I can tell you more or less what we found and it is n't a great deal . |
| 8 | We doubted that it was technically possible , or that there would be a niche for such a business , but they proved us to be wrong and that was the beginning of the launch of Tactel , our highly successful family of fibres for leisurewear , the ICI record campaign , and so many more besides . |
| 9 | I said , ‘ Sure , ’ called the guys up , they flew down from Sydney and we played and it was just like we had n't stopped doing the pubs ; it felt real good . |
| 10 | In the original report , however , we noted that it is not difficult to design , manufacture and market simple chip-based handhelds , especially straightforward spellcheckers . |
| 11 | Jason came over to my apartment , we jammed and I was completely floored by the kid — he was unbelievable ! |
| 12 | Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms . |
| 13 | we had Roy and then we had Simon for a bit and then we decided because it was n't working altogether an Edinburgh person and a Glasgow person |
| 14 | They , we , when Spud went out we thought that they were n't still coming . |
| 15 | At that time the Conservative party voted against the Bill because we thought that it was entirely wrong . |
| 16 | Well it all depends if it 's value for money because we er , we fe we felt that it 's only one day . |
| 17 | part of that section is valid , and we say and we pleaded that it 's not so forth |
| 18 | We knew that we were about to join a convoy coming from America . |
| 19 | But we knew that it was probably inevitable . |
| 20 | From our own experience , we knew that it was not our fried food that was the problem but our own hearts that were being constantly ‘ fried ’ due to the stress of our living conditions and the pressure of our reality . |
| 21 | We derived a lot of job satisfaction from this one , but unfortunately we knew that it was only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 22 | He knew and we knew that he was pretty hopeless at ball games , so we readily relinquished the bat to him in the hopes of another of his clowning sessions . |
| 23 | In our earlier discussion of truth ( see Chapter 4 ) , we saw that it is not available in any absolute sense ; but this does not mean that ‘ anything goes ’ . |
| 24 | Wonder if you 'll remember the things we saw when we were there . |
| 25 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 26 | He 's forgotten that we did but I 'm not gon na tell him that . |
| 27 | No cos they bent round and we had a tie , we did but it was only a little bannister you know , we tried it |
| 28 | It was like Coalite , er when we first came here , oh yes it was , yes , but we have electric fires of course as well to , what we did because we were both out working all the time , we had electric fires and I think my husband , husband had them allied to a timeswitch and they came on before we came in , an hour or so , before we came in this room and in that room |
| 29 | When we learned that she was not to be charged , the detective inspector carrying out the investigation told us : ‘ It 's the first I 've heard of it . ’ |
| 30 | Says Melville , ‘ We learned that it 's very difficult to live and work together . ’ |