Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 2 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 3 | A portion of the top floor we 'd completely sealed off with walls of polythene sheeting , and a powerful dehumidifier had been installed . |
| 4 | could we have possibly started out with not to give us exactly this cos it 's too it 's too much to find |
| 5 | Mind you we 've now caught up with some more traffic which is going even more slowly . |
| 6 | And we 've deliberatly gone along with local wishes to avoid going through Buscot itself |
| 7 | I 've worked with a number of carpenters and joiners and come tea-break , we 've all sat there with our nice hot cup of tea/coffee and that gradual layer of dust on top . |
| 8 | ‘ They know we 've always gone out with more than one of them and they 've always accepted it . |
| 9 | ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with . |
| 10 | So far we have not dealt critically with liberal-democratic constitutional theory , but in the chapters that follow we will begin to explore the cogency of this perspective as an explanation for British politics . |
| 11 | we have finally done away with death . |
| 12 | We have n't fallen out with them at all . |
| 13 | Then she wonders why we have n't got on with the work . |
| 14 | We have just arrived here with everything we have soaking wet and so we must just sit still till our clothes are dried and I take the opportunity of the idle time to write to you — |
| 15 | ‘ Operators have been in discussion with the Health and Safety Executive for some time , and we have now come up with a code of practice accepted by the HSE and drawn up by BERSA ( British Elastic Ropes Sports Association ) . ’ |