Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [subord] we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were hoping to get a mini bus , I do n't think we ought take a bus because we were very badly treated when we did that , we do n't to allow ourselves open to that again , but I have written to say were hoping to get enough people to take a mini bus . |
| 2 | Our neighbour from the next door flat , a Dutch Javanese married to a Scotsman , came rushing in to see if we had heard the news . |
| 3 | Will and I ran like the wind and only stopped when we reached the river . |
| 4 | It will , sadly , be too late for many young people , whose lives have already been ruined ; but it could set the agenda for future generations who might even get society better organised than we did . |
| 5 | ‘ There was a feeling of disappointment that we were held to a draw in Bruges and the atmosphere in the dressing room at the Olympiastadion only lifted after we heard that Marseille had suffered the same result against CSKA , ’ said McCall . |
| 6 | I slept most of the way home only waking when we got back to Debenham . |
| 7 | In er , , you know , we only reversed when we got to the bottom of that last machine , and why had the guy back , erm , went over it , and go through it again , luckily it was only three high . |
| 8 | But this has only happened since we got the national agreement . |
| 9 | THE North-South divide may not exist as we thought . |
| 10 | ‘ I do not think if we had put down a motion which said we believe in motherhood and sliced bread the Labour Party would have backed us , ’ he said . |
| 11 | There was a disco where beer was on sale but thoughts of dancing the night away evaporated when we found other people were using it for sleeping . |
| 12 | However nerves and hangover were soon forgotten as we headed out into the middle of the river and the adrenaline started pumping . |
| 13 | All was soon forgotten as we trooped off first to a reception thrown by the Count and Countess de Vogue , and then to the Worthington , Fort Worth 's grand hotel , for dinner and dancing . |
| 14 | I did not know if we had a ‘ D. ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Many of our recent troubles in retaining and maintaining public confidence might have been less severe and more easily solved if we had not begun to depart from the traditional relationships between ranks , ’ he added . |
| 16 | The board has tried to gather information about the bid , but we could not act until we knew who to act for or against . |
| 17 | Er , as I said the government has already accepted when we introduced the legislation last year in the criminal justice act on money laundering , that there are far wider er interests and fidrer fi far wider implications than there have been ever before and I think the government needs to do a little bit more to show that it is aware of international implications and the sheer scale of what we 're dealing with and er I touched earlier on the question of indemnity , er perhaps the minister could specifically address that point . |
| 18 | We need to follow up the contacts already made when we invited comment on the idea of a course ( in any case , I promised to let them know what happened ) . |
| 19 | The leaden feeling that weighed heavily on me as Jean-Claude rode into Paris did not lift when we fetched up at the house in the rue Victorie . |
| 20 | We believe political officials have responsibilities we could not defend if we had to build these directly from the ordinary requirements of individual personal morality most of us accept for ourselves and others in nonpolitical life . |
| 21 | Matters were not helped when we found Doctor Agrippa waiting for us in a seaside tavern , cheerful and full of life as a well-fed sparrow . |
| 22 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 23 | Cold , wet and tired , we pitched the tents , and fervently hoped that Stephen 's mother would have reported us missing , as she knew that we were usually good timekeepers and normally arrived when we said we would . |
| 24 | Paul 's promise of variety was soon fulfilled as we turned off the ridge and headed into a forest of fir trees . |
| 25 | ‘ Why did you not go before we came ? ’ |
| 26 | I would n't go to a doctor there because of this malignant thing so I just managed till we came back |
| 27 | I can not recall if we congratulated you on your resolute stand against the inclusion of the above section of the A5 in the proposed Trans-European Highway Network . |
| 28 | Let us assume that we have been more careful and not leapt before we looked . |
| 29 | We talked about image and Mandy was talking about not preparing if we wanted these pictures to go out because we wanted erm create a not an illusion but a a perception of what was going on . |
| 30 | A ringed plover looked trustingly up from her nest on the shingle , so close to the path , and did not stir as we filed quietly by . |