Example sentences of "we [vb past] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President , I 'd like to er , offer thanks on behalf of my membership in the Process and Construction Section , on the false agreement , it was a very successful week and just to echo Keith 's words , those links that we made are working and we are in correspondence with the , our colleagues in and we 're picking that up in terms of recruitment . |
| 2 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 3 | On the other side , ‘ some years ago we observed that quite a large proportion of the concentrated acids we sold was diluted by our customers on site and sometimes in rather unsatisfactory conditions ; small companies did n't have facilities to dilute acid safety — it generates a lot of heat . |
| 4 | The few windows we passed were blocked up , so as to prevent light escaping . |
| 5 | Outside the window it looked as if the few farm houses we passed were floating in a sea of snow . |
| 6 | Yes , now that kingdom is , is in the Lord 's prayer as we mentioned is gone into the air and |
| 7 | Away from the roads , most areas we visited were populated by Indians : Cofan , Secoya and Siona in the north , Quichua and Huaorani ( Auca ) in the central part of the region , and the Shuar in the south . |
| 8 | The secret we used was to make the correct article immediately follow after one with four legs or corners . |
| 9 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 10 | Although we did n't realize it , the books we used were becoming a tie between us , and the hours we spent together were becoming more and more enjoyable . |
| 11 | It was a hot day but the valley was all bush apart from some enormous landslips , which we found were frozen underneath , like walking on a glacier . |
| 12 | It was while I was attending Sally Carmichael 's dancing class that I accidentally entered a beauty contest — the local Working Men 's Club where we practised was running a ‘ Queen of Sheffield Working Men 's Clubs ’ contest . |
| 13 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 14 | ‘ Actually I was really happy about that , not just because we 'd been made Singe Of The Week , but because it was a woman reviewing the singles — and they 're a lot harder to please . |
| 15 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 16 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 17 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 18 | If we 'd been engaged , I might have thought you 'd come to give me back my ring . ’ |
| 19 | Big fucking deal , we thought , we 'd been robbing them blind |
| 20 | Yeah the main difficulty is in is in the time period because it 's it 's quite likely that I mean I 'd we 'd been we 'd been hoping that the target candidate could put in a reasonable amount of personal commitment to the campaign . |
| 21 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 22 | It was just because we 'd been drinking . |
| 23 | We 'd been drinking vin blanc and supping pork pies and and when we sat on the boat , sailor says , You 'll not there long , you know , we sat on the bow er on the from of the boat . |
| 24 | And the lessons learned were , how to manage projects better than we 'd been managing projects before . |
| 25 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 26 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 27 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd been sent out here on Uncle Mick 's money . |
| 29 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 30 | God in heaven , you 'd think we 'd been eating leftovers . |