Example sentences of "we said [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |
| 2 | hell we said they should play Tony ! |
| 3 | ‘ We said we would grant Ballyskeagh two nights per week and this we have done . |
| 4 | This year , I am being told that the test was not whether we could deliver our unprecedented number of detailed commitments , as I had thought , but whether we would do a lot more than we said we would do just a year ago . |
| 5 | How do we compare what we 're doing on our short-term with what we said we would do on the long-term . |
| 6 | I mean , th tha when we took it over we , we got that , cos people said well , you know , just dishing out the oranges was n't there should be something organized so Rotaract said they would do we said we would give the money towards the prizes . |
| 7 | do you think we said we would go at three thirty so we have to go |
| 8 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 9 | So I bring it back because we said we would consider it further . |
| 10 | The the topic that we said we would investigate today , comes from the hand-book . |
| 11 | We said we would let the WO have sight of our evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee , and that we would try to give them more consistent evidence of breaches of planning guidance . |
| 12 | We said we would like to ask her about males and females , and it was evident that her interest picked up . |
| 13 | Erm year one once again we said we 'll make a loss of one point almost two million . |
| 14 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 15 | My mum and I voted my dad out and we said we 'll have a record player . |
| 16 | We said we might go in . |
| 17 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 18 | We said we 'd pass on offers . |
| 19 | It is it 's more of a little story and it 's not a front page shocker which I think is what we said we 'd set out to write , a front page shocker okay so I think you 've got to think about the kind of words you use . |
| 20 | Naturally we said we 'd stop work for the day . |
| 21 | But we said we 'd build in local stone and blend in with the area . |
| 22 | Yeah , I think we said we 'd go . |
| 23 | Cos we said we 'd go to , for some time up to er , oh what motorway John ? |
| 24 | I have n't yet no , but I think he 's outside mixing cement , we said we 'd go and give him a hand to put his posts in |
| 25 | Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different . |
| 26 | Well w we said we 'd prefer to be upstairs |
| 27 | And that 's how it started and it was really just you know we said we 'd do a bit of fund raising and I think the men were pretty sceptical of you know they thi they thought we might fight over the first tin of beans or whatever . |
| 28 | We said we 'd do that . |
| 29 | With the Maestro and Montego we said we 'd respond to customer demand . |
| 30 | Well we did because we said we 'd have to specify what to . |