Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we were terrified that they would find where we had hidden our film equipment , it was easier for us than for our crewmates to express our anger , and we blustered the officials off the ship . |
| 2 | But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin . |
| 3 | After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us . |
| 4 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 5 | ‘ Said she did n't have the money , so we had to persuade her . ’ |
| 6 | An awful lot of money , so we had to cancel it . |
| 7 | It was a tiny cell , so we had to take it in turns to sit down . |
| 8 | On top of all that Copper has always had a dust allergy and he got very congested so we had to give him powders to keep his lungs clear . |
| 9 | And the pubs were only interested in cabaret bands , so we had to pretend we were a cabaret band and play as many covers as possible . |
| 10 | But a club spokesman said : ‘ Several people complained about her coming to the club so we had to do something . |
| 11 | Because we forgot to do , we forgot to do the spelling test last Friday , so we had to do it on Monday so we did n't get any spelling this week , so right now we did n't have a spelling test , this is brilliant , guess what we do now ? |
| 12 | You 're in luck — we found a fowl this morning , and it did n't look too well , so we had to put it out of its misery . ’ |
| 13 | But my mother-in-law was suspicious and asked us , so we had to tell her we were using condoms . |
| 14 | Now , at the time we had my grandmother living with us , so we had to tell her shut up , erm , and when they rang , er on the door , she , she was n't to sort of , call out and you know , to tell us that the door was ringing , |
| 15 | ‘ Nothing takes make-up off faster than chicken grease so we had to keep them away from that , ’ continues Drexler . |
| 16 | We then did n't have enough materials for the wall so we had to shorten its length , which in turn meant there was not enough room for media vehicles and not enough space for VIPs to manoeuvre their cars in , and that meant altering security arrangements . |
| 17 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 19 | But she got too old eventually and so did Dick and Snip , so we had to send them away . |
| 20 | This coincided with our decision to work on a book together , so we began compiling what was to become The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes . |
| 21 | The guards had always said that they were n't bothered about anyone in British gaols , so we 'd hoped it would be easier for us to get out than for the others . |
| 22 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 23 | He went on more seriously , ‘ So we agreed to follow our different ways . |
| 24 | Drummer Chris Cooper explained : ‘ We 've been criticised for being shoddy live so we decided to do something about . |
| 25 | When giving evidence to the PCA , the then permanent secretary to the Department agreed that that situation could not be defended , so we decided to put it right . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The 20 foot roof above our heads provided perfect shelter for all eventualities , so we decided to share our last scraps of food in another bivouac after fixing the ropes on the first two pitches above the terrace . |
| 28 | Bennett said : ‘ The food provided on Thursday was not up to standard so we decided to provide our own . |
| 29 | It got the biggest laugh of the night , so we decided to keep it in . |
| 30 | ‘ But there was nothing wrong with it , apart from the colour , so we decided to cut it up and sell it as skirt lengths . ’ |