Example sentences of "we [vb past] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If people know we met because my parents fostered you when you were a teenager , they are n't going to think any the less of you , ’ she said , her voice gentle because this was an old hang-up , one which her family had spent years trying to dispel . |
| 2 | ‘ In the final analysis , we realised that our core competency is direct marketing , ’ the company explained . |
| 3 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 4 | We asked whether their fears were justified , but Ruby only smiled . |
| 5 | It even invades " We planned that their lives " , which starts innocently enough . |
| 6 | Eventually , we realized that our school work was suffering and a few of us turned him down flat when it came to the sports and he did n't like it . |
| 7 | Old Ladjang remonstrated with him quietly , but the others were silent , and we realized that our captain was infecting them with a subtle but poisonous hostility towards us . |
| 8 | In Chapter 1 we proposed that our representation of ordinary nouns should , strictly speaking , include round brackets , to indicate occurrence of a property , inside the square brackets representing entity-hood , but that we should normally allow the round brackets to be omitted in order to simplify the notation , thus abbreviating ( 41 ) ( a ) to ( b ) : ( 41 ) ( a ) [ ( NEIGHBOUR ) ] ( b ) [ NEIGHBOUR ] In the present case , however , given that the function of the adjective is exactly to distinguish between property and entity aspects of a single syntactical item , we shall be obliged to use the fuller form . |
| 9 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 10 | When we arrived at Papillote , which had advertised itself as being ‘ in the rainforest ’ , we found that its flimsy buildings were half engulfed by the surrounding forest . |
| 11 | Running downstairs we found that my eldest sister , Gertrude , who had been helping Mum , had caught her fingers in the rollers . |
| 12 | When the results became known , we found that our own bets were lost , but the gyp made a handsome winning and Dr Barnardo 's did quite well . |
| 13 | To discourage them , we pretended that my rifle case contained a machine gun a weapon for which they had considerable respect , having occasionally encountered one when fighting Government troops . |
| 14 | Right , okay , the other thing I was going to ask about we , we had a big promotion of Amnesty by The Body Shop , last year , er and we noticed that Our Price were also going to do promotion of Amnesty and we asked , wonder if we look into local shops and see what they could find out and what was going on , did you find anything ? |
| 15 | Previously we estimated that our data request omitted 6.5% of cases and we now add a further 6.1% who may have been lost because of inadequate records . |
| 16 | We all knew it would be disastrous ; we foretold that her husband would walk out , that her other children would suffer : we saw she was the only one of the family unit who could n't bear not to see the fruit of her womb , however sour , ripen , drop and live . |
| 17 | If there was a choice of department within a region , we chose the one that gave its nurse practitioners most responsibility as we assumed that its nurse practitioners would fulfil the role most completely , enabling us to examine the role more effectively . |
| 18 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 19 | A Direct meeting has already taken place with the Bank , in March and we stated that our 7% claim was negotiable . |
| 20 | We prayed that her new happiness would mark a turning point for our family as we work together to re-build a sense of stability . |
| 21 | In the case of the snail and its fluke parasites , we decided that their preferred shell thicknesses were divergent . |
| 22 | We decided that our programmes of study for knowledge about language were too difficult , too close to a first-year undergraduate course , and so we cut these drastically . |
| 23 | In Strathclyde , we decided that our strategy would be to address the existing management and development issues in a general way by raising the profile of the needs of dementia sufferers and their carers across the Region — and obviously initiatives and educational material were invaluable in this and also by developing a training package , aimed at care staff in residential , day and domiciliary settings . |
| 24 | Steve 's coach Mike Holmes , who confesses he was ‘ astonished ’ by the 20-years-old 's 2.33 metres effort for Liverpool Harriers in last weekend 's British League match , said : ‘ Because Steve had not jumped in competition , or even in training before last Thursday , we decided that his first two competitions would be off the shortened run-up . |
| 25 | We thought that our evenings in The Bar could simply be bought . |
| 26 | In 1972 , after our brief flirtation with the European Free Trade Association , we thought that our self-interest would be better served within the EC , so we joined , and I supported our membership in this House . |
| 27 | Think how Miss X [ an author whom , in jest , we feared as our editress ] would like to edit the whole correspondence if we predecease her . |
| 28 | We took as our starting point the fact that whether you like it or whether you do n't like it , it is a fact of life . |
| 29 | On visits to both bureaux , we felt that their working practices eliminate any reasonable possibility of this happening . |
| 30 | There had been other stresses too , and we felt that our first job was one of reassurance . |