Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , towards the end of our week at Lerwick a rather embarrassing state of affairs had developed , where every other seafarer we met ashore seemed to have received our attention , the inevitable result of us all being weatherbound together . |
| 2 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're very sorry about poor 'Annah passin' on , so we thought we 'ad better come to pay our respects . ’ |
| 4 | Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year . |
| 5 | Controlled experimental hypoglycaemia induced by a clamp technique similar to that which we used clearly showed delayed and diminished hormonal and symptomatic responses to hypoglycaemia in diabetic patients receiving intensified insulin therapy — a situation in which loss of awareness of hypoglycaemia and increased risk of severe hypoglycaemia is well described . |
| 6 | we tried desperately to avoid looking at her , right . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ s'pose we 'd best get started . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd best get started , ’ he said . |
| 9 | We 'd just got married . |
| 10 | We 'd just started talking about all that when the rowboat tipped over . |
| 11 | We 'd just finished decorating the room . |
| 12 | We 'd better go had n't we ? |
| 13 | Nine four we 'd better do had n't we ? |
| 14 | But at the moment he 's well he 's not come back to us with any answer from our offer at all so we 're we 're presuming that means no so we thought we 'd better start looking . |
| 15 | ‘ But we 've come to the conclusion that since not everybody 's ready for it , we 'd better start packaging some of our most popular strings both ways — individually in sixes , and collectively in one packet — and let players make up their own minds . |
| 16 | ‘ Then we 'd better start to find out exactly what he is up to . |
| 17 | " I suppose we 'd better start having a look along the banks soon , although I must say I 'm in no particular hurry . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 19 | ‘ I think we 'd better try to get it home , Mrs Lomax , ’ said Tina . |
| 20 | ‘ We can stretch our legs and have some coffee and something to eat , but we 'd better keep going , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Well we thought we 'd better get looking . |
| 22 | ‘ Right , we 'd better get rid of your coat before I show you round , ’ Natasha said to Maggie . |
| 23 | My father sent me the cheque , needless to say , so David and I thought we 'd better get married because that was the reason he sent the cheque . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd better get to work . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'd better get going , I 'm late already . ’ |
| 26 | Well , good afternoon , everybody , I think we 'd better get started . |
| 27 | But we , we 'd better practise sitting on the floor for stories , so that you 're ready for nursery when you go |
| 28 | we 'd never thought to cast our shadows on it , |
| 29 | Liza and I had wanted to go into the big shops in New Street and Corporation Street for ages but we 'd never dared to pass the attendant who stood in the doorway ready to shoo small children off . |
| 30 | ‘ Sure it was different than what EMI had been expecting , a lot different , but it was what we 'd always wanted to do . ’ |