Example sentences of "and we [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme . |
| 2 | ‘ Tremors of this magnitude , although rare , have been recorded in the region and we had to be comfortable that the plant could withstand the worst-case scenario . |
| 3 | It had to be passionate — and we had to be naked . |
| 4 | Apparently there was an exam in the hall next door to the music room and we had to be quiet . |
| 5 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 6 | There is no sign of that from our point of view and we tend to be late in the cycle anyway . |
| 7 | She just said a bed , so I told her there were special beds that we are very useful in fact very necessary in cases and we tend to be short of them |
| 8 | It will house a nucleus family of gorillas in its other half and we hope to be able to start a breeding programme and also to collect funds for and publicise the Digit Fund , set up to conserve gorillas in the wild . |
| 9 | We will have the first sevens tournament in Prague in August and we hope to be able to organise sevens competitions before top soccer matches . |
| 10 | ‘ Our Somerville Hypermarket is already trading successfully in Stockton and we hope to be able to offer the same quality of goods and standards of service to the people of Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 11 | And we hope to be able to show you a video . |
| 12 | We think someone in the community is protecting the killer and we want to be sure we 've spoken to everyone |
| 13 | Yes , we 're in competition and we want to be able to say to our members do n't go to that trade union because they will put you all in one lump , go to this one because we 've got sections , because we look at our members with individual needs and please support this motion . |
| 14 | And we want to be able to provide the controllability that we achieve traditionally through centralization in the mainframe environment in what will inevitably be a distributed world . |
| 15 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 16 | Sheldon himself never lied to his friends about the mummy and we have to be grateful to Faujas Saint-Fond for the following account written shortly after a visit he had made on Sheldon : ‘ It is [ said Sheldon ] a mistress whom I tenderly loved . |
| 17 | While equally the white lesbian sister has got to understand that while she 's unified with this Asian lesbian sister there are differences , there are differences some of which are good and some of which are bad , and we have to be frank about them and to struggle around them because we ca n't just pretend that they do n't exist , then we 're not going to reach anywhere . |
| 18 | ‘ And we have to be careful who we speak to . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Lithuania are a side who can cause us problems and we have to be careful . |
| 20 | It is an embryonic concept in a fast-changing environment and we have to be realistic about the limits of our power to forecast or even speculate about its future . |
| 21 | ‘ We have shorter runs and more colour changes these days , and we have to be flexible enough to meet these requirements . ’ |
| 22 | But that 's the real world and we have to be positive and make it the best for them as it can be , with love , affection and trust . ’ |
| 23 | Well , maybe ‘ blossom ’ is an exaggeration , but I told Gillian one or two of Oliver 's jokes , and we talked about being apprehensive over coming to the group , and then it emerged that she was half-French , and I had something to say about that , and the estate agent tried to bring in Germany but we were n't having any of it , and before I knew where I was I had half-turned my shoulder to exclude the other chap and was saying , ‘ Look , I know you 've only more or less just arrived , but you would n't like a spot of supper would you ? |
| 24 | ‘ It will be quite dark when the service ends and we need to be able to see precisely what is happening . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Yes it has been greeted by cynicism in some quarters and we need to be able to answer the cynics ’ questions , ’ he says , adding . |
| 26 | The work of Martin Bell elsewhere , however , indicates that the landscape and its use can change , and we need to be aware of this for earlier periods . |
| 27 | I was trying to hint at that this morning that we 're looking at a whole child and sometimes they 're not gon na succeed in a subject they 've put it cos there 's sod all else for them to put and we need to be aware of that . |
| 28 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 29 | ‘ I have spoken to most captains and a lot of players and the general feeling is that we have played against sides in the past with Test players and we wanted to be able to fight fire with fire so to speak . |