Example sentences of "[adj] we [vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides this we found that there are important differences between the Black and Asian experience of criminal justice , and that this needs to be taken into account in ethnically-based studies . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not sure how high we went but I remember looking down at the surf . |
| 3 | When we met in June 1993 we debated whether we should keep everything . |
| 4 | Some we chased but it was only a matter of chasing them out of the way . |
| 5 | And the pr we 're er , I would expect the profits of Thames to be in line with that that we expected when we acquired the business . |
| 6 | That was all we got when it was a twelfth a little tiny piece like that . |
| 7 | However , there are some themes which recur in the evidence of those we consulted and which were first sounded in the Bullock and Swann Reports . |
| 8 | In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified . |
| 9 | In Chapter 1 we said that it was the job of a financial system to channel funds from surplus to deficit sectors . |
| 10 | In Chapter 1 we proposed that our representation of ordinary nouns should , strictly speaking , include round brackets , to indicate occurrence of a property , inside the square brackets representing entity-hood , but that we should normally allow the round brackets to be omitted in order to simplify the notation , thus abbreviating ( 41 ) ( a ) to ( b ) : ( 41 ) ( a ) [ ( NEIGHBOUR ) ] ( b ) [ NEIGHBOUR ] In the present case , however , given that the function of the adjective is exactly to distinguish between property and entity aspects of a single syntactical item , we shall be obliged to use the fuller form . |
| 11 | At first we outlined as our objective the elimination of the main characteristics of conventional tonal music by the following means : ( 1 ) we should avoid the use of conventional scale patterns ; ( 2 ) we should eliminate triadic chord formations , including not only major and minor chords , but also 7th , 9th , and diminished 7th chords ; ( 3 ) chord sequences resembling conventional cadences should also be avoided ; and ( 4 ) the total-chromatic should be used continuously . |
| 12 | Er after deliberate first we wondered whether they ought to go through onto the racecourse and then we decided no probably the best place for them would be round the back of the main stand . |
| 13 | well you 're alright , you 'll be alright we said if you get on the train where we get on , you 're OK , so they get , getting out |