Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , no , we are governed by our Annual General Meeting , but it 's not unrealistic to ask for double figures , because basically we were talking in that vein last year , and of course we eventually settled for 8.8 . |
| 2 | Consequently , first thing in the morning when we were all trying to get ready , we constantly got in each other 's way . |
| 3 | We only went for two days . |
| 4 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 5 | erm there is criticism that erm we only went into this war because of oil interests . |
| 6 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |
| 7 | but we did n't have many of them , we only had about two or three come up and they came from Australia |
| 8 | We only had about six folks watching us though . |
| 9 | We only caught about half of what was coming across . |
| 10 | We only spoke of happy things … ’ |
| 11 | It amazes me just how much was achieved , with such positive results , especially as we only dug from 2.15 to 6.00 P.m . |
| 12 | I think it 's quite , quite right we should be asked to do that , it 's just unfortunate that we perhaps got over optimistic when the land sales were boom , were booming . |
| 13 | ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England . |
| 14 | ‘ We just got into all the old flicks from the Seventies , ’ says Kool-Tee . |
| 15 | We just touched on this on Tuesday night . |
| 16 | But when we got to the studio , the first thing we saw were all these picture frames suspended from the ceiling — we just looked at each other and burst out laughing . |
| 17 | We just looked at each other . |
| 18 | Yeah , well we 'll take erm Michael gave us say erm a , an assembly sheet did n't he and we just read from that , and that got a lot of interest from that . |
| 19 | We just started on different things you know . |
| 20 | We finally debated at great length whether it would be possible to avoid making explicit reference to the Director . |
| 21 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 22 | We usually sourced from Olympic in the States but we had to start looking elsewhere . |
| 23 | We hardly attacked at all . |
| 24 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 25 | ‘ We hardly spoke to each other , ’ she protested . |
| 26 | In the Berlin orchestra we always looked for greater knowledge and better players but maintaining standards is always going to be difficult . |
| 27 | Because of our volunteer system and our love of the job I think we always succeeded in this aim . |
| 28 | We always travelled like that ; Seton 's task was to ensure that there were no obstacles . ’ |
| 29 | We always depended on free transfers and Nigel has made some super captures . |
| 30 | I remember Christmas Eve 1930 , when we went as we always did on that day to the High Street to look at the lighted shops , seeing a little girl in a tattered dress and with bare feet , her nose pressed at the toy-shop window . |