Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rarely took a vote sitting around the board table . |
| 2 | London we passed through , on our way to and from school , but except during the half-term " long leave " from Eton we rarely spent a night there . |
| 3 | ‘ We successfully politicized a generation of women — those now in their thirties . ’ |
| 4 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 5 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 6 | But unless we eventually found a body , there would also be the possibility of simple flight . |
| 7 | I retaliated with detailed instructions on how to bowl off-breaks to left-handers on a drying pitch , and we eventually declared a truce as we watched the sun sink across the oil-storage tanks beyond the creek . |
| 8 | Which was which was that we did n't take the whole of the vacant dwellings , we only took a part , even though we are not aware of any planning policy that will restrict occupation of dwellings as second homes . |
| 9 | ‘ We went three goals up away from home , ended up scoring five and we only got a share of the points . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , we only heard a bit . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We only had a bottle . ’ |
| 12 | Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work . |
| 13 | If we only had a part for Dustin Hoffman , that would be terrific . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We only had a matchbox size kitchen from which we had to fees the likes of Spike Milligan , Harold Wilson and Ken Dodd . |
| 15 | And , and we only had a rain on one day I think it was . |
| 16 | It was mainly equipment setting up , and then when we did rehearse we only did a couple of songs a day . ’ |
| 17 | We could have gone back to the where we started and then we only paid a couple of hundred pounds a year for the land that they used to keep the grass cut and everything but the problem was really the area . |
| 18 | If we only opened a door partly er there is room for somebody to hide behind it and then when we go into the room then we would encounter problems . |
| 19 | Oh er yes I was going to say we suddenly heard a chorus did n't we ? |
| 20 | We furthermore constructed a number of devices for easy handling of 32 P ( Fig. 1 ) : |
| 21 | But we did n't watch it we just saw a couple of bits . |
| 22 | We just left a country full of mullahs , and what do I find here but another goddamn mullah . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We just got a letter from him ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Instead of a rate for carrying oil throughout to Bedale we just got a rate for bringing it to Middlesbrough for trans-shipment to road , which was illogical to me . |
| 25 | Oh its its its chronic , Tracy and Yvonne take hundreds of calls that are nowt to do with us , we 've what was it , we had complaints and discipline on on Friday afternoon , they wanted Superintendent J Smith and complaints and discipline on Friday afternoon , she were just gon na transfer it and Jim walked in so we just had a phone call for you he said |
| 26 | We just had a call from them . |
| 27 | I er , in fact , we , yeah , we just had a problem yesterday , we started work for the Royal Scotsman and erm well we started work for them , like last year and we 've been doing jobs |
| 28 | ‘ But , Frank , we just had a drink … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We just had a discussion about aesthetics . ’ |
| 30 | We just had a stall did n't we ? |