Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] we [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1975 , my engineers and I realised we should enter a new area of application — robots for arc welding . |
| 2 | Towards the end I argued we should remove a section to recover what dating evidence was available below it . |
| 3 | Gill and I agreed we would n't tell anyone how we met . |
| 4 | And I found we 'd run out of milk for Anthony . |
| 5 | I found we used to have them mixed with sweet almond oil and soya oil , which I find this one brings out their aroma much more the grapeseed oil . |
| 6 | When I got rid of fear I found we could make friends . |
| 7 | Nick said , ‘ I promised we 'd come again , did n't I ? ’ |
| 8 | Daphne came from one of the best families in London , certainly from what I understood to be the upper classes , so once I left St Paul 's I assumed we would never come across each other again . |
| 9 | I believed we should do just that . |
| 10 | If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes . |
| 11 | I guessed we might be in the latter years of her reign — Shakespeare would still be alive ! |
| 12 | There are other ways to access this world , but utilising sexuality is the way I discovered we could — perhaps — manage to do so using the human nervous system . |
| 13 | The road was now backing west towards the sea , and towards the place where I fancied we might see evidence of major geophysics at work . |
| 14 | Malc and I decided we 'd have to face the music and tell his parents and my Pop . |
| 15 | Frank confirmed that as a boy visiting relatives in the region there had been many of the old ships still about , so Brian and I decided we 'd go there , then sail down the US coast to the Caribbean , through the Panama Canal and head west to the Revillagigedo Islands which Brian had decided were his . |
| 16 | I decided we could n't continue to rely on showbiz . |
| 17 | ‘ Sorry to just snatch you off the pavement like that , Chief Inspector , but I felt we ought to meet . ’ |
| 18 | I never thought it would work , but I felt we ought to give it a try . ’ |
| 19 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 20 | I have n't toured for a few years now , apart from the World Cup and I made that an exception because I felt we could go all the way and win it . ’ |
| 21 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 22 | The next day we went again to the Rovacchia but this time I insisted we should also go and see the crazy Englishman who had ridden the mule . |
| 23 | ‘ You thought I meant we should pass the time in bed , did n't you ? |
| 24 | ‘ I meant we should take a trip to Hadrian 's wall . ’ |
| 25 | At one point in the turbulence I felt certain I was going to be air-sick and the very thought was unsettling , because I knew we would have to write and file our first flight story from Calgary within an hour or two , and that story had to be sent , come what may , including sickness . |
| 26 | I knew we would meet again . |
| 27 | So we lost , but I knew we would . |
| 28 | Thank you er er Mr Mayor , erm I knew we would get to that part of the agenda where . |
| 29 | I knew we would be without them for the return so there 's no point talking about it we have other players who can score . ’ |
| 30 | I did n't tell you because I knew we 'd have a scene like this and I do n't like it . |