Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed at that stage that while we would no longer take any active part in the management of the venture , we would continue to provide financial support via our guarantees . |
| 2 | I think the best thing we can do is leave any talk of work until tomorrow and concentrate on the real reason why we agreed to this evening and get to know one another better . ’ |
| 3 | We fought for seven days and |
| 4 | ‘ We passed by some mash and pie shops today , and I do n't know WHAT THE F— THAT IS , and I do n't care what it is either . |
| 5 | When I was heavily pregnant we lived in one room that was infested with red ants . |
| 6 | But I remember only too well the time when we had nothing in the bank and we lived in rented property because we 'd sold our home to keep me racing . |
| 7 | We got on real well and I had a lot of fun that week . |
| 8 | Well the fact that we 've got three there , there there that 's how many we got on that card and we were quite happy about that . |
| 9 | Would you mind telling us , Mr Major , how we got into this mess and how we 're going to get out of it ? |
| 10 | We got into this fight because we wanted to preserve our independence , and I do n't think our views have changed , have they ? |
| 11 | If she wants to go down the road making life more unpleasant then then we got down that road as well and she 'll be the loser |
| 12 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 13 | We argued from this Bench that the regulatory machinery for British Gas was totally inadequate and that the basis of the privatisation was wrong . |
| 14 | It looked like a Hollywood film stunt — until we realized with chilling certainty that none of us anywhere near the petrol-pump would have survived if the truck had gone up . |
| 15 | We realized at this stage that it would be difficult for this strand of non-print publishing to develop from existing production expertise , however advanced the latter 's use of electronics to produce print more cheaply and more flexibly . |
| 16 | It makes me shudder now to think of it , how we waded into those strawberries and did n't suffer any ill effects afterwards . |
| 17 | For weeks we bumped into strange doors whilst making our way to bathroom and toilet in the dark . |
| 18 | We changed into dry trousers and extracted sweaters from the bottom of our bags . |
| 19 | We changed into these outfits and assembled in classroom IB at seven forty-five A.M. Each uniform shirt had a large red shoulder patch with a white grid like three capital fs jammed together . |
| 20 | We moved to another flat and then to a maisonette on the same estate . |
| 21 | Erm we used at one time as you remember to have a full time education officer and er for a number of reasons er that er is no longer the case . |
| 22 | We found in earlier descents that if power was left on the aircraft quickly accelerated well into the yellow arc and could quite easily reach its Vne . |
| 23 | Well what we did we stopped at this track and we turned round and we went to there was like a twenty foot straight yeah , and there 's like and everybody 's sort of like going , no , not that . |
| 24 | When we came to the moat , we stopped near some trees and the six men hid there with the horses . |
| 25 | On the way we stopped in many towns and villages , so that I could be shown to people . |
| 26 | From Antigua , we transferred by local aircraft and passenger launch to Caneel Bay , St John , in the US Virgin Islands . |
| 27 | We negotiated with immense pain and at great length to achieve an agreement with Mr Smith . |
| 28 | We recognised through that review that to train all those people to do the work we would have to use the officers specialist inspectors and therefore those specialist inspectors would be carrying out less inspections during this year because they 'd actually be carrying out some training . |
| 29 | We disposed of surplus property and focused our investment expenditure on quayside facilities where we bought the former Texaco fuel terminal in Aberdeen , which is being substantially upgraded , and spent £1.2 million on building 27,000 square feet of offices and warehousing at the Wood Marine Base in Aberdeen . |
| 30 | Firstly , we came across electric cables that were only three inches below the surface of the ground . |