Example sentences of "we [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Where we lived was n't much of a place — there were fourteen families in the one house and as mother 's eyes got worse , less work came in and we had to move into smaller and smaller rooms . |
| 32 | As I wrote earlier , the house where we lived was Church property , having been given to St. Martin 's by an eighteenth-century benefactor . |
| 33 | Not far from where we lived was the local hospital , the Ospedale Peracchi . |
| 34 | In this age of specialization , what we got is a lot of brilliant mechanics working four to five years behind theoretic technology , and a few abstracted theorists working out in the unknown and each disagreeing with the other . ’ |
| 35 | All we got is a piece of paper , which probably on that one tells the council they recommend approval of this . |
| 36 | Er , I make the point I think that , erm , we should oppose the er , Deregulation Bill if it 's based on providing deregulation by Ministers , because I think that 's a constitutional point that is of great import , but the , the rest of it erm , are really sets of principles that I hope you 'd agree to , subject to amen amendment and dis discussion , because the information that we got is that the consultation period is going to be very tight indeed , and that it might not be able to go through the normal committee procedures in order to put things through erm , with er , proposals in that , er , in that respect . |
| 37 | But that 's , that 's all the all what we got is in there . |
| 38 | Diane said : ‘ We advertised for help , but all we got were hoax calls . |
| 39 | The first numbers we got were just counting numbers . |
| 40 | And I said , well we 've already asked before and the ones that we got were the ones that were thrown out . |
| 41 | All we got was a small discount because we bought such a huge quantity . |
| 42 | What we got was the jelly-like wobbling of Western pop 's fulsome , milky tit in the face of the starving . |
| 43 | He guesses that it is something to do with education and reflects wryly that ‘ all we got was a bible and a thick ear ’ . |
| 44 | WHAT WE GOT WAS N'T UNIFIED UNIX IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE |
| 45 | And all we got was we slept through that . |
| 46 | Instead of the eight grand pay-out we had all expected , what we got was seventy quid and nowhere to shelter from the rain . |
| 47 | You did it by twelfths and we got four twelfths and the other answer we got was one third . |
| 48 | The impression we got was that they thought it was pretty much his own fault . |
| 49 | Well , we put the flag up at dinner , and what we got was Jim Charlton , a nineteen-year-old student from Liverpool . |
| 50 | And all we got was a lousy phone call three weeks later . |
| 51 | ( Perhaps this was where the first shock to people in the field arose 0 as one said , ‘ we were expecting an all-singing Branson man and what we got was , although he could be very charming , a quiet , distinctly unvibrant and very determined person ’ . ) |
| 52 | What we got was a Budget to try to bribe voters with borrowed money . ’ |
| 53 | And the advice that we got was that if we wanted to establish proper ownership and control of that land again , we would have to seek a High Court action , possibly the House of Lords as well , and that total cost would be in the region of a quarter of a million pounds in legal costs , and we also then stood the , well risk of losing the case as well , so we could have spent two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for nothing . |
| 54 | The budgets that we announced were £24 million and £20 million , which my hon. Friend has added to make £44 million . |
| 55 | But what we realized was that even if we hit his estimates we were still gon na be worse off . |
| 56 | The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK . |
| 57 | Yes , now that kingdom is , is in the Lord 's prayer as we mentioned is gone into the air and |
| 58 | In The man whom we visited is a cousin of mine the clause whom we visited is adjectival , qualifying the man . |
| 59 | In The man whom we visited is a cousin of mine the clause whom we visited is adjectival , qualifying the man . |
| 60 | The first place that we visited was Nui Lenh forest reserve , one kilometre north of the Ben Hai river . |