Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We became quite a regular there , as a matter of fact , nine consecutive mornings , including two Sundays , past the battlements , through gardens , then down the long loot-crammed passages , with glass cases full of baubles and beauties , and oblongs of oils and tapestries and embroidered maps reeling past our sight — to the waiting room . |
| 2 | Thank you Mr Chairman , I , I 've got a certain amount of experience in the subject because we got quite a big one in our village . |
| 3 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 4 | We found instead a high general standard and — a very strong international body of work which is actually topographical , or environmental , rather than architectural . |
| 5 | We raised quite a good sum for the first time and that went to the Barnardos home . |
| 6 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 7 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 8 | When when the strike first started , being in the summer months we needed quite a strong picket line to talk to the tourists , at various gates cos that was the main source of income at the quarry at that time . |
| 9 | Even so , when we gathered together a superb voluntary team of some of the UK 's top communicators for both the 1983 and 1987 General Elections , the Conservative Party could not find any strategic use for them . |
| 10 | In fact , at one stage in this study our thoughts ran on catastrophes of a biblical kind and we pictured half-seriously a universal conflagration to account for the black band . |
| 11 | ‘ But we gave away a bad goal through sloppy defending . |
| 12 | Keegan , who ten days ago was boss of an apparently invincible Geordie side , said : ‘ I know what people are thinking , but the only difference between our defeat at Leicester on Saturday and our early season results was that we gave away a silly goal . ’ |
| 13 | We witnessed recently a singular event in Zaire when Belgian and French troops went in to protect their citizens . |
| 14 | In 1990/91 we carried forward a substantial reserve which allowed us to meet greater than expected demands . |
| 15 | If we said ou the carpet , we said well a certain area of the carpet wants |
| 16 | We had then a small dining-room at the top of Number 1 l , which my wife and I used when we were alone . |
| 17 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 18 | The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away . |
| 19 | oh we had quite a heated argument about it |
| 20 | We called and saw them and we had quite a nice reception . |
| 21 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 22 | We had quite a simple shot to make the green , and Lee says to me , ‘ Willie , I 'm only interested in getting to the middle of the green . ’ |
| 23 | And that sort of stuff used to go to America , because in er we had quite a big American market in those days because they did n't wash curtains in America , they used to put them up until they dar until they dropped down and then put new curtains up , you see ? |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , we had quite a little chat about the place . |
| 25 | So we have no knowledge on that and Peter and team working and Tony is in the , the body of the hall we had quite an extensive discussion over a period of time but perhaps cumulating last Friday , a week last Friday , on the N treble C and we are calling a special lay- delegates conference on the first of July in Sheffield , with one item on the agenda team working . |
| 26 | Er I do n't know how many of you made wills but er draw him out on other things if you 've got any problems I mean we we had quite an interesting session at one of the power station talks on a er tenant er tenancy agreement that a chap had been bothered about for some years . |
| 27 | As expected , I found Prince Charles very easy to talk with and we had quite an informal chat , mostly about boats of course , before I stepped backwards along the red carpet with my medal pinned on . |
| 28 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 29 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 30 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |