Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [that] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We suddenly realized that we were as free as air , and could n't think of a thing to do with this unexpected liberty . |
| 2 | Now this is people 's traditional expectation and they still have it , whereas we 're of the mind that instead of this er you 've very cleverly got in this circle and the last day that I suddenly realized that we 're all equal and moving around in a reasonably organized manner but still we 're rather loose , whereas the traditional view is a parish councillor says it and everybody does the rest , with a few er renegades and revolutionaries at varying parts in your parish . |
| 3 | I suddenly noticed that we were diving down again . |
| 4 | He rightly said that we grant exceptional leave to remain to a number of people if it would be unjust to return them , perhaps to a civil war or something like that . |
| 5 | We finally realised that we could avoid even that embarrassment by giving ourselves breathing space . |
| 6 | Of course this sally , and the discovery of our locational ancestry opened the way to friendship , though we soon realised that we had much more in common , not least a sharp sense of humour , which we were both going to need . |
| 7 | Starting out to research the topic of women , power and politics , Margaret Stacey and I soon realised that we could rely on little in the way of help from traditional approaches to the study of politics . |
| 8 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 9 | Sir Henry and I were both good runners and very healthy men , but we soon realized that we had no chance of catching Selden . |
| 10 | Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass . |
| 11 | No , no , that would n't worry me , I just , I said when we got rid of our other sideboard let's do without one and then I looked round and thought well what the dickens am I going to do with all this stuff that we 've got and I just found that we could n't do without it . |
| 12 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 13 | But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area . |
| 14 | Well , my husband just , just , just said that we were going out , we got to go out , and we could n't , that was it . |
| 15 | James just said that we have n't taken any guarantee fees into this year 's profit er , nor any interest on , on loan stocks . |
| 16 | Well I 'm just saying I just said that we 're not likely to get it here . |
| 17 | As the crest broke over my head I just wished that we had gone for plan B which was to have used a tandem bicycle for this trip . |
| 18 | We further agreed that we would make no promises and twist no arms , and having decided on this general strategy , my friends urged me to leave the campaign to them . |
| 19 | The autumn statement yesterday demonstrated that we have substantially increased in real terms — after inflation — the spending in each of the three areas that my hon. Friend mentioned . |
| 20 | She once joked that we were like ships that passed in the night . ’ |
| 21 | In spite of all evidence to the contrary , he always believed that we were leaving bokra , tomorrow . |
| 22 | I wish you all fortune , and hope that the memory of your life with me is not entirely unwelcome ; after all , we once believed that we loved one another , even though we did not . |
| 23 | ‘ We always boasted that we made 29 films with one script — now we have made 30 , ’ laughs Peter , 78 . |
| 24 | We always replied that we were satisfied to live in Wallowa . |
| 25 | ‘ I always meant that we should have a real start — a place of our own . |
| 26 | Now , because everything we did or said might have had some effect on John , I found it hard to relax about any aspect and always felt that we had to do more , be more efficient , keep up the pressure . |
| 27 | Whereas I always felt that we would get five B , I did n't feel confident we would manage to retain any objective two , and , and the partnership in that area have managed to retain it . |
| 28 | Before this season he always knew that we could n't survive without him , but now we can , now we have another star . |
| 29 | Detestable stuff , but my Dad always insisted that we had an egg cup full , once a week . |
| 30 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |