Example sentences of "we [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 2 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 3 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 4 | Mrs Humphreys said : ‘ Had we received the £68,000 the company would still be in business . ’ |
| 5 | Had we emphasized not the choices made but the social rules followed by social actors , then a more collective account of social action would have emerged . |
| 6 | Is it usual to kill prisoners , or have we broken your law ? |
| 7 | He was thirty-eight years old at the time — why the hell had n't we heard of him ? |
| 8 | Now where have we heard that one before ? |
| 9 | How many times have we heard the phrase , ‘ Saddam Hussein wo n't negotiate ’ ? |
| 10 | He then spends ten minutes getting radio engineers — ‘ Here , have we heard of Duns ? ’ — to afford him diplomatic status , and then mend a faulty link . |
| 11 | Not since Brian Hayes at his peak have we heard such a master of the phone-in put-down . |
| 12 | How many times have we heard women who themselves are single parents saying that equal pay is wrong because men have families to support ? |
| 13 | How many times have we heard comments along the lines of ‘ What can you expect from a child from that kind of family ? ’ |
| 14 | Now , where have we heard that one before ? |
| 15 | And where have we heard that before ? |
| 16 | And what are they — have we heard that yet ? ’ |
| 17 | How often have we heard that — and at how many different counties over the years ? |
| 18 | How often have we heard the Association lashed by the Banks for our alleged failure to accept Independent Third Party decisions ? |
| 19 | Have not we heard planted questions this afternoon that have contained carefully worked-out statistic after statistic ? |
| 20 | Who er who have n't we heard from . |
| 21 | Well , it 's just coming up to eleven o'clock , who have n't we heard from , er , right , you 've been very very quiet there . |
| 22 | We will try to keep our er flow of paper outwards , but if we er are failing or if there are any questions as to well why have n't we heard anything from w for a while , please do get in touch . |
| 23 | Have we heard his word ? |
| 24 | You know we could 've We limited They were limited to the intake , but we could have er increased I think . |
| 25 | Yet were we taught about Crapper at school ? |
| 26 | Erm would the convenor say erm what he understands from the statement of faith and the statement of faith alone erm to be the teaching on the atonement that is , wh what are we taught about the atonement from the statement of faith ? |
| 27 | Nor are we given any indication of how , precisely , Pilate intended the appellation to be understood . |
| 28 | Nor are we given details as to how God brought the earth and life into being — or how long it all took . |
| 29 | Well , had we given in then god only knows what would have happened in both our quarry and the other two quarries . |
| 30 | You say there 's three candidates there who get , one who is actually earning the money that we pay and two that are n't , the quick fix is to say right we given you an opportunity to do this national accounts job at the same salary for six months , see if you can do it , and if you do it we confirm the salary . |