Example sentences of "we [verb] [det] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has become apparent on some of the issues , some of the comments that we made that was if I could call it the you 'll know what we 're talking about and I do n't if we are talking about the there was there was a point somewhere where talked about ing an increase or short of journey time along the ring road and this has been taken as I understand to be that we are setting out an increase of speed er traffic on the sections of road to a junction and that 's totally in force and it was either . |
| 2 | No you , you go down , off and she said you can full holidays arranged daily , and we came that was on the Tuesday , the Wednesday I had to phone them , done on Friday ! |
| 3 | We assumed that was Michael Ryan . |
| 4 | We reckoned that was about quarter of a page . |
| 5 | ‘ The way we achieved this was simple — tremendous teamwork by everyone involved , pulling together and making that extra effort which achieves better results ’ , said Plant Manager Phil Blackburn . |
| 6 | We know that was Vecchi , or so I 'm told . ’ |
| 7 | shall we just look at er item four on one , five , three , because this is er sent out on the seventeenth of June eighty five , right , see that at page one , five , two , and it says at four the service charge , the estimated service charge for these flats for the year ending thirty one August eighty five is and then the flats are set out there , three hundred and eighty two , five , seven , five and seven , six , four , that 's all in respect of because we know this was an flat , we can see that from page one , five , two , but when , whether or not the brochure is updated when that letter goes out to their solicitors , have you seen other similar letters of this sort going out ? |
| 8 | We understand that was de-mob happy for quite some time and erm I know he 's been disappointed recently with the Tories losing control of the local Council down down in the happy glades down South but the pink gin and pink knickers approach of Councillor is becoming a joke . |
| 9 | Thus one conspirator in the 1961 Great Heavy Electrical Industry conspiracy said : ‘ We understand this was what the company wanted us to do ’ , and another reported that , ‘ It ( the instruction ) came to me from my superior … but my impression was that it came to him from higher up ’ . |
| 10 | Inspector Phil Barr , in charge of Operation Lightbulb , told the ECHO at the scene : ‘ We believe this was a well-organised , 24-hour-a day drugs dealing ring . |
| 11 | ‘ We could have just announced that free tickets were available at the door but after talking to the police about it we decided that was a bad idea . |
| 12 | And that was enough , we decided that was enough . |
| 13 | When we were first married we did not have a budget ; we thought that was only for those with money . |
| 14 | We thought that was the kindest thing to do . ’ ) |
| 15 | We thought that was ridiculous . |
| 16 | And erm this was the first time that I 'd ever been sort of as far afield into the country as this , and to go and see the erm er Toll Bridge at , that was , and top go over it , because it was a long wooden bridge that used to go over , and er we thought that was absolutely fantastic . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , we thought that was a silly idea , ’ the other twin retorted , before both the children and , regrettably , Ross as well burst into peals of laughter . |
| 18 | We thought that was the last we 'd see of him … but Ian reappeared as we lost height … and he was clearly having a whale of a time … |
| 19 | And we thought that was a frightfully clever machine when it first arrived . |
| 20 | So that cost an awful lot of money because he was on a grant of course and he , he spent er about a year as a trainee teacher and we thought that was great because he was , he was dealing with , with er |
| 21 | finally got to Monica and we thought that was enough , so we just wrote Monica , we thought they 'd accept that and they did n't . |
| 22 | Erm well we thought that was out of fashion . |
| 23 | We are yeah we had video at number three about three or four years back , and we thought that was great and we never dreamed of going any further up the charts you know so it 's great that this one 's gone to number one . |
| 24 | We thought that was |
| 25 | We had that one nil down and we thought that was it , there was and then they came back seven goals |
| 26 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | We thought this was a jolly easy way of making money and it must have been , because my Father never repeated this idea again . |
| 28 | And we only flew about I think it was four thousand feet , that we flew and we thought this was terribly high . |
| 29 | We thought this was an exceptionally high sentence and both of them appealed . |
| 30 | Er and we felt that was a bit excessive . |