Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] that we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | We may not ask for help by weeping , but our bodies may become helpless so that we have to be helped . |
| 3 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 4 | It is interesting here that we have in Dorothy Heathcote 's lesson an example of apparent free-play . |
| 5 | Stoppard 's stage directions are so explicit here that we do not have to watch the TV production in order to appreciate the impact of Anderson 's action . |
| 6 | It was fortunate indeed that we had put him in a cell with another person . |
| 7 | We are fortunate indeed that we have players of his calibre to call upon , ’ says manager Cloonan . |
| 8 | But I am not sure now that we seek Surere for this . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As the University is so pressurised for space we must make sure now that we get the best courses that we possibly can and that they will earn the income to justify their inception . ’ |
| 10 | Jason and I made a pact that we would n't discuss hairdressing at home unless we had to and we think that is even more important now that we have the baby . |
| 11 | It was plain then that we did not much like the French way . |
| 12 | But there were also some very happy and amusing times , and I 'm so thankful now that we had the experience . ’ |
| 13 | They are in danger of becoming complacent now that we have reached welcome lower levels of inflation , and are lulling themselves into believing that the problem has been ’ licked ’ . |
| 14 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
| 15 | I think it 's the most difficult actually that we 've er , brought you this week . |
| 16 | 6.8 The observations above on the behaviour of these adjectives may appear to suggest a surprising degree of linguistic sophistication on the part of ordinary language users ; it may , though , seem less surprising now that we have recognized in the earlier part of this chapter the sense-qualifiers , since these distinctively qualify the property of a noun without constituting a qualification of the corresponding entity . |
| 17 | A Disaffection shares in that uncertainty , and in so doing acknowledges a connection with a certain whether-or-not that we meet with in the plays of Shakespeare . |
| 18 | It will be aware also that we have a long , deep and bitter disagreement with the Government over their whole political and security policy in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | It is true also that we do tend to play above ourselves . |