Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I picked him as my friend because he was a quiet , kind boy and we shared the same interest . |
| 3 | The closure notice was peremptory and we made the most of the fact that a poor , struggling little community service radio station , without benefit of commercial revenue , serving the southern and central parts of the province from gratis studios and operated by a completely voluntary staff , was being victimized by a powerful political federal body without regard to the expressed wishes of the people . |
| 4 | He leapt off a regular bus — the excellent airport service seems currently in abeyance , threw himself through the doors and yelled at me to hurry , which I did , and we caught the same bus back into town . |
| 5 | My next girl friend was a friendly and kind girl and we liked the same things . |
| 6 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 7 | So , if we had the same range of materials on video as we do on audio , would we continue to use audio in language teaching ? |
| 8 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 9 | but we had the same thing with , course it 's going back Joan 's generation er see younger generation altogether than mine but our , our lives were well we 'll say well my father was in the Secret Service , in the government , Scotland Yard but erm |
| 10 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 11 | Everyone knew this , but we faced the same problems in increasing efficiency and productivity as in all the other traditional industries like coal and steel . |
| 12 | Erm we also know that base five formwork is up so we started on base five as soon as we can , put as many resources into it as we can we mentioned earlier that er having five hundred people in there made life quite congested but we decided the more people that helped in there the better and er our objective was to get the er wall steelwork up . |
| 13 | Because we reinterviewed the same people at different times throughout the year , we were able to divide them into persistent readers of Tory tabloids , persistent readers of Labour tabloids , persistent readers of broadsheets and , finally , those who changed papers or read no paper regularly . |
| 14 | The way we work is similar and it could have been nasty when we wanted the same part . |
| 15 | Jessica and I met when we joined the same company within a day of each other — both straight from school . |