Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing this we panicked , and high tailed it out the back of the graveyard ; cursing and falling over each other all the way . |
| 2 | He was very considerate like that — and he taught us girls a thing or two we lived to be grateful for later on , I can tell you . ’ |
| 3 | For an hour or two we trudged about trying to find something more ( or something at all ) to see , and even photograph . |
| 4 | Well , after much deliberation and a family pow-wow or two we decided we 'd give it a go one Sunday afternoon , between the hours of 2 and 6pm . |
| 5 | That 's right , yeah , yeah Yes our first tour was five , it was supposed to be four , but , we erm , er for some reason or other we did n't really want to come home , ha four , so we stretched to three |
| 6 | But if we look at the air conditioning explanations we we reckon that the conditions likely to lead to sickness and , and the related illnesses that were mentioned er was , the low humidity that that we thought might er , be in the area erm , because it dries out the and enables viruses to enter the body more more easily . |
| 7 | One is that I think in order to overcome some of the objections that that we heard from Leeds yesterday in terms of the erm the urban regeneration policies , that any proposal would would certainly need to be re-relocating from outside the region . |
| 8 | And the pr we 're er , I would expect the profits of Thames to be in line with that that we expected when we acquired the business . |
| 9 | You see if There is going to be a war , and God 's people had also to be warriors and so there was that element of religion as well that that we had to be trained as warriors for the Lord . |
| 10 | I I suppose in the in the light of what 's been said I I am slightly uneasy erm particularly going back to the erm I five discussion that that we had yesterday and you you 'll be aware that part of our objection to the erm the policy put forward by the county council re related to the specific wording of the of the policy and the the flexibility available to local authorities in in terms of allocating land erm that best serves the needs of potential developers and investors . |
| 11 | Now , we have a balance as it already tells you er , in er earlier in the paragraph of this paper that that we had a er balance of sixteen thousand pounds a , in the ministry last year so , if we knock sixteen thousand pounds |
| 12 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 13 | Er well that was about the biggest , that that we worked on and we maybe had er some things for churches . |
| 14 | Halfords Halfords in Harlow is one that that that we found out took it . |
| 15 | It also , in those days was mileage for the tyres was paid on the number of miles run per tyre , so at the end of the month you could record , you knew what tyres were on a certain bus , you knew of how many miles that bus had done , so you recorded that particular tyre on that bus had run so many miles and it was that that we paid for our tyres that way . |
| 16 | That that we did |
| 17 | It was 40 °s C in the shade and so quiet that all we heard was dust settling , the rattle of bones and the rustle of wings . |
| 18 | No one present would have disputed that but the feeling was that all we had seen was the closing of one chapter of a story in which there is much more to come . |
| 19 | Or are you going to go on pretending that all we did last night was make love ? |
| 20 | ‘ I said I was n't here to make moral judgments , that all we wanted was to understand what this project was all about and where it is leading . |
| 21 | It has been assumed that all we needed to know was the effects of the variable rhythms of the language on the regularity of metre . |
| 22 | There were crackers , too , amazingly beautiful to our childish eyes , far bigger than those we had had for our Christmas festivities the day before , with elaborate decorations on them and exciting contents . |
| 23 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 24 | Although John felt that we were pulling a rather large practical joke his sense of humour did prove to be a lot better than most we had encountered recently . |
| 25 | The heating in the Met Office was by means of an open coke fire , and this we kept stoked up high on cold nights , but I 'm not sure that this was such a good idea . |
| 26 | We have maintained a high level of marketing activity in the traditional areas of our work with the result that we brought in a greater value of tender enquiries in 1992 than we did in the previous year , and this we achieved against the backcloth of a continually reducing market . |
| 27 | He would insist on checking our observations before we sent them to Group on the teleprinter , and this we regarded as a deadly insult , most of us having been doing them unchecked for over three years . |
| 28 | It had always been one of his Walter Mittyisms to run a restaurant , and this we discussed with extreme earnestness . |
| 29 | In Chapters 1 and 2 we looked at how individuals relate to the world to release energy , to satisfy goals and to attain rewards . |
| 30 | Fresh-faced and bright-eyed , we five-year-olds trooped off to school : troubled and sophisticated we returned , the stuffing all knocked out of us . |