Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we do know what causes whales to beach , we perhaps will have more chance of persuading the stranded ones to return to the safety of deep water . |
| 2 | Thank you to everyone who took part in this venture , we hopefully will run another draw sometime in the future — who knows it could be your turn next ! |
| 3 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 4 | Yeah , we probably could run one course for community affairs staff actually , we take about twelve people on it normally |
| 5 | So we probably can get another lot well before the |
| 6 | We really ought to do some baseline blood tests , and say |
| 7 | ‘ We should have had seven or eight but I think my lads ' New Year resolution is to turn my hair completely grey — we simply must find some consistency . ’ |
| 8 | We never used to do that sort of thing in the Store ! |
| 9 | When talking about grief a frequent comment is , ‘ We never used to have this sort of fuss made in the good old days : we just had to get on with it ! ’ |