Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] we [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew conditions would be different once we crossed the railway and entered Danakil country . |
| 2 | We then realized that our costs were too high so we narrowed the range and cut the costs . |
| 3 | The fact was that the board got it wrong and we took the blame . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course ’ he said sitting down again ‘ it would have been so much easier if we had the assassin alive and on trial . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you think it would be different if we had the opportunity to be together every night ? ’ |
| 6 | The electric bill used to be so high because we had the electric fire on all the time and we used to leave the oven on as well . |
| 7 | Overseas Mission was not so popular when we realized the heathen were nearer than we thought . |
| 8 | We are quite clear , and we were clear when we conducted the talks this summer , that they were not peace talks because they would not bring an end to the violence , but were one of the pressures that can be mounted against the terrorists . |
| 9 | It just seemed to go all wrong when we passed the big rock . ’ |
| 10 | So security was extra-tight as we visited the exclusive Knightsbridge store . |
| 11 | But that that we took the view that you know people were entitled to go to an H E institution , and and keep up to date with what was happening there every year . |
| 12 | It is not true that certain other events or conditions might have occurred such that we got the solar conditions but not last night . |
| 13 | Erm , you will remember that after the last meeting we were going to have a meeting with Mr which we , which we subsequently did have and we put forward several erm possible uses for the old hospital , including re-siting of the library , relocation of the council offices , police station , day centre for the elderly , day services for the physically disabled , for young mothers and children centre and for a mental health services centre and he was delighted that we had the meeting because he has to meet with his superiors late in December , early January , when he has been asked to put forward ideas . |
| 14 | Now erm , the Council can support such groups , it can , it can , got formally decided the body to support such groups and with the West Essex Health Action Campaign all political parties on this Council decided to support it , because they were sad that we lost the fifty million . |
| 15 | It would be highly dangerous if we had the choice of tampering with instinct . |
| 16 | So I made it to 100 and we won the game shortly after . ’ |
| 17 | eighty six and we got the Uno August eighty eight . |
| 18 | Nor would a third person enjoy as much as we did the dreams we liked to tell each other . |
| 19 | It was dark when we reached the boat and we were soaked as we climbed back aboard . |
| 20 | So we felt quite smug as we manoeuvred the boats ashore for our next instructions . |
| 21 | ‘ We were too hurried when we had the ball and Spartak passed us out of it . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , that 's right and we had the car park last year did n't we ? |
| 23 | ‘ Chubby ’ Eliot and self had a bit of a dogfight for a while trying to get on each others ' tails as we were not certain the other was not a 109 until we saw the roundels . ’ |
| 24 | So to a certain extent the idea was to that if we had the thing worked out it would be of great benefit to the people who were popping by . |
| 25 | Lily and I like that and we bought the self and we felt independent . |
| 26 | And then er working with them the tractor and binder did the cutting and that and we did the cutting and the leading . |
| 27 | I do n't think I 'm the only volunteer who 's ashamed of their early attitude to AIDS and I 'm only glad that we had the sense , collectively , to listen to reason before the calls began . |
| 28 | We 've been quite lucky cos we got the |
| 29 | Now I , I 've rung the Claremont and they 've said , oh yes , it 's the conference erm you know amount and we 're very , appar we were , I was very lucky cos we got the last three rooms . |
| 30 | Late autumn was cold and we felt the winter would be bad . |