Example sentences of "[that] we [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England .
2 On the other hand , we might so frame our problem that we felt it would be impossible to solve it unless we carried out detailed fieldwork .
3 No we 've had er because this was erm a , a , a of erm concern here that we felt you know what 's gon na happen after the twelve months and I 'm pretty sure we had a circular round that said we would get two hundred pounds a week .
4 But we 've done that in the brief that we 've we 've worked on .
5 Erm with without a new settlement erm that that was indeed the the impression that erm I was left with as well , and what what we 've sought to do in in the evidence that we 've we 've put before you is to take the nine seven , nine thousand seven hundred figure in Greater York , and and er s based on the data supplied by the County Council to demonstrate that that actually when one looks at outstanding commitments erm with planning permission , identified the sites er without planning permission , those those that are allocated in local plans , making suitable allowances for small sites erm windfall sites and conversion , erm the the residual figure that is left in Greater York , which I calculate to be eight thousand six hundred and thirty seven , once one has taken away completions , which I think is an agreed figure between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three of one thousand and sixty three , that erm , those existing commitments , and the sites likely to come forward , ma virtually match the figure for the outstanding housing requirement , so so one is left with a view that erm from from the data that 's put in front of us that there is n't a residue of that size to accommodate , although I accept that there may well be a residue of some sort , erm and it seems to me that the established Greater York erm framework , er is is the process by which that is distributed around the counties along the lines that the discussion 's proceeded this morning .
6 Well , it 's not a positive action that is noted , as we 're actually saying that we 've we 've read it , basically .
7 We had a long series of various pieces of research , one of which was actually talk to enormous amount of customers through customer and as a consequence of that we 've we decided to form a fairly business to produce a very different pair of stores , different in that they wo n't trade in the traditional way that M F Is gone ah they 'll carry different merchandise , different price lines .
8 I do n't know how many times I have to say , that we 've we 've been there and we know all about this .
9 During a boom we can afford to ignore our little mistakes , but when money is tight we only buy make-up that we know we will use .
10 What I would like to try and get personnel 's agreement to , if a if at all possible , is that we do n't do this nonsense of having to close list our staff to jobs that we know we 're gon na put them into .
11 ‘ It is only by going too far sometimes , ’ he said , ‘ that we know we have gone far enough . ’
12 So that we know we 've got to cover that and it was just er Caroline , Karen 's suggestions were in the external order , was that we , we should draw up some kind of plan , with dates as to say right , okay , we 're gon na do the work first .
13 For his work with a host of musicians from Marian McPartland to Ruby Braff he has received many accolades , but one that we know he likes was made in the London Spectator recently : ‘ Tate turned out to be that rarity of rarities , a bass player whose contributions actually made musical sense .
14 I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another .
15 You now have the choice to equip your kitchen , whether modern or traditional , with a gas cooker packed with so many benefits , that we know you would previously only have found in cookers that cost far more .
16 Mr Smith , erm , obviously you want to respond to that , but at the same time could I just press you towards your view and it 's really relevant to the districts surrounding York , that we know you can live with the figures of provision as set out by the County Council in the alteration , how ar are you aware of the figures which are being proposed by other participants in the discussion for Greater York ?
17 And first of all before we er we put the reports we , there are a number of er , there 's one alteration and a number of er , additions obviously alteration or I should say a a an amendment is something an important place on page fifteen er , at the tope of the page referring to December nineteen ninety two I 've put , which is agreed by GP committee with the exception of young these representatives , that we ask them to bring thirty pounds towards the cost that should be twenty five .
18 And the reason for that is that we ask you to do three things when you get in front of the advertiser having got his commitment .
19 Were it so again , that some little profit might be reaped … out of some of our playbooks , the benefit thereof will nothing near countervail the harm that the scandal will bring unto the library , when it shall be given out , that we stuff it full of baggage books .
20 United will by extra-motivated by the fact that we knocked them out of the Coca-Cola Cup , and Robbo 's return .
21 This is because this was the dead stock that we sent him .
22 It was n't till the news that night that we realised we had been filmed while doing these taxi service for people .
23 It was only half way back to Darlington that we realised we never had learned why Bobby Orton walked off against Burnhope .
24 It was only then that we realised it was a woman . ’
25 After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing .
26 Then the righteous will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry and fed you , or thirsty and gave you drink , a stranger and took you home , or naked and clothed you ?
27 And they too will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison , and did nothing for you ? ’
28 That is not to say that Derek Bevan was wrong ; just to say that we saw it differently , that 's all .
29 And when we think that we saw it when it was new !
30 We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters .
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