Example sentences of "what we [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we owned we stole and filched , not from the poor but the merchants , the lawyers , the fat and the rich . |
| 2 | If the requirements are modest er modest requirements with modest standards , it 's still a quality job if we achieve what we said we 're going to do . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | How do we compare what we 're doing on our short-term with what we said we would do on the long-term . |
| 5 | I makes you wonder when there is up there and what 's happened to them but this is what we said we found . |
| 6 | some of them , some of them he said , I forget what we took we got them a bottle of Coke did n't we ? |
| 7 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 8 | ‘ The business is n't worth what we thought it was , that 's what you 're saying ? ’ |
| 9 | But as soon as we hit with something that was n't what we were about , we always tried to get the band back to what we thought it should be — three guitars and drums played loud by four New York bums . |
| 10 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |
| 11 | Balding shrugged : ‘ I was actually away at the time , but I suspect the ground was n't what we thought it was . |
| 12 | And you 've got perfect liver function tests which is what we thought you 'd have all So the thing to do is to now get you on Terbinefeine Yeah ? |
| 13 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |
| 14 | what they , what we got I tell you . |
| 15 | What we got mine |
| 16 | Erm , they write down nothing , they remember nothing , and I have to phone these clowns every other day , to make sure that they 're doing what we agreed they 're going to , otherwise I have no panels next month for my stand , and I would be up the creek . |
| 17 | What we had something more than just the bean sprouts ? |
| 18 | Than what we had we was doing last year . |
| 19 | And we had people coming back after they 'd actually done their run out there saying , Do you want any help with I mean that 's what we asked them for |
| 20 | This will involve communication from the relevant semantic entry to the phonological output lexicon , which enables you to produce the appropriate spoken form corresponding to the semantic entry , i.e. to say ‘ elephant ’ ( unless what we asked you to do was write the answer down , in which case what is needed is communication from semantics to the orthographic output lexicon ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Only what we sent you . ’ |
| 22 | look at the money for a moment because if you look , when we come to look at the financial commentary , we will be going down the erm er what we spent our training budget on |
| 23 | Hallo sir , you 're calling about your daughter , Jennifer , erm I 'm sorry , I do n't really have any more information to add to what we told you on the twentieth . |
| 24 | ‘ It is , after all , what we brought you here for — to resolve our problems for us . ’ |
| 25 | What we offered her was a range of ‘ types ’ to choose from , ranging from the idealistic and dynamic to the cynical and incompetent . |
| 26 | This year our stocks were customer-led , and we stuffed the shops with what we knew our customers wanted . ’ |
| 27 | It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ? |
| 28 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 29 | What we pressed him to do in Committee was to include in the Bill power to set up a funding council . |
| 30 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |