Example sentences of "[adj] we [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous to this we had been left very much to our own resources . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , all this we 've been talking about . |
| 3 | Too often in the past , schools/industry work has suffered from an inability to present value for money indicators and this we suggest is one of the strengths of the TPS . |
| 4 | And upon authority , this we think is established to be the law whether the things so brought be beasts , or water , or filth , or stenches . ’ |
| 5 | The youngest we have is two and a half and the oldest is around seventy . |
| 6 | How fortunate we have been over the years in our efforts to help this cause , for yet again the story is one of sunshine , success and soaring profits . |
| 7 | we 've been glad we 've been glad now have n't we er |
| 8 | ‘ How lucky we 've been ! |
| 9 | and these are n't so expensive , but I mean these we know are fifteen so these have got ta be twenty five , twenty six quid |
| 10 | How comfortable we feel is determined not only by the temperature of the body ( in effect , the temperature of the blood going through the brain ) but also by that of the skin . |
| 11 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 12 | And I think that to a large extent erm an alternative wording that that we 've been working on would erm meet those concerns . |
| 13 | Er I think it 's also worth noting again chairman here that er in fact most of the hundred and forty five hectares that we 've been talking about er is in fact already committed |
| 14 | In some areas the new standard might differ markedly from that we have been used to in Britain . |
| 15 | All we require is a collection of reasonable indicators which represent , to some degree which may be unknown , the concept of class . |
| 16 | All we asked was if it was possible for them to come through Halam and go down School Lane to pick to get an extra bus service at Halam . |
| 17 | One said : ‘ All we saw was loads of smoke coming from the station and then the emergency vehicles arrived . ’ |
| 18 | All we saw was the inside of the hotel and the inside of a cricket ground . |
| 19 | All we saw were the bodies in the morgue and I remember parties carrying them away . |
| 20 | We had dinner hours ago , and any way how could you get ill when all we had is stuff we 've always had ? |
| 21 | After all we had been warned . |
| 22 | Here was a marvellous chance for us to see the paintings but all we had was talk , talk , and more talk about what the paintings were supposed to mean . |
| 23 | Yet all we had was here and now , and here and now … always through time … was where the struggle towards goodness had to be fought . |
| 24 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 25 | ‘ All we knew was that we were walking down the street and people were throwing eggs . |
| 26 | All we knew was that they were not there when we needed them , and we blamed them . |
| 27 | It was a small boost , but we certainly needed one after all we 've been through . ’ |
| 28 | After all we 've been through , we need a holiday ( in France ) . |
| 29 | All we 've been asked to do is secure this ship until help arrives ; which should n't be longer than this time tomorrow . |
| 30 | After all we 've been mates , working alongside at the smithy . |