Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | We only had about six folks watching us though . |
| 2 | but we did n't have many of them , we only had about two or three come up and they came from Australia |
| 3 | We only caught about half of what was coming across . |
| 4 | Yes er I think that er notwithstanding the fact that we only spoke about the er incentive scheme on occasions , we reserved our er judgment as to when we would apply to the management to discuss certain matters . |
| 5 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 6 | If we just talked about the technical side of music , it would be a very short interview . |
| 7 | ‘ We just talked about what he was doing . |
| 8 | Of his talk with Mr Yeltsin , Mr Clinton said : ‘ We just talked about what he was doing and I said I supported democracy and free-market economics in Russia . ’ |
| 9 | But Clinton was non-committal , merely saying : ‘ We just talked about what he was doing . |
| 10 | From what we already knew about its audiences and programme content , we expected that television would have a stronger influence on public information and perceptions than on public attitudes and choices ; while the press , particularly the mass-selling tabloids , would have a stronger influence on public attitudes and choices than on public information and perceptions . |
| 11 | For your information , if not for your conversion , let me bring you another in the line of startling books which turn upside down all that we ever believed about the Old Testament . |
| 12 | Do we not know more than we ever did about crowds , power , group behaviour , motivation , national and religious hysteria and so forth ? |
| 13 | We also talked about experiences of being victims of offences and found Blacks had significantly less , and had reported fewer of these to the police . |
| 14 | We also talked about the need to be able to control this vastly more complex new environment as if we were controlling a mainframe . |
| 15 | ‘ We also talked about the days before Flodden — the doings of the late King and the gossip of the court . ’ |
| 16 | We also talked about the new settlement being self-contained and integrated , but came I think to a consensus around the table that the level of employment provision in the new settlement should be related to the level of employment supply in the new settlement as opposed to a level of employment which would satisfy employment needs |
| 17 | Having done that we then talked about the problem that we all have on these sorts of occasions which is the problem of nerves and we talked about the symptoms of dry voice and the shaking limbs the the wonky voice and the reasons why we have er these nerves and we also talked about the causes of the the primitive instinct of fight or flight er how we get get our body ready to handle this unusual situation . |
| 18 | And we also talked about maybe you could say , erm , you know , if you continue to do a job , maybe we 'll look you know , at developing you further , but it 's all sort of , pretty similar sort of things you 're going to say to him in that situation . |
| 19 | ‘ We also enquired about painting the LP sleeve on the side of the plane , but when we found out that it would cost another two and a half grand for the paint job we drew the line . ’ |
| 20 | We often fantasised about murdering him , too — as painfully as possible . |
| 21 | I do n't want to give the impression that we often talked about Shanti 's origins ; we only did so when she obviously wanted to . |
| 22 | Next , we were asked to list our strengths , what we really loved about ourselves . |
| 23 | We never changed them very much , because we knew the path we were on , but we consciously spoke about them . |
| 24 | John says he was terrified that we even knew about the briefcase . |
| 25 | Erm I must get in touch with Wendy because we vaguely talked about running on Monday night . |
| 26 | We then talked about the first of those two towers of Tower Bridge if you remember which was about the skills that we need for er delivery . |
| 27 | and this gave you an opportunity to see yourself to see others and to take part in some coaching something that we did again yesterday and we shall be doing again today We then talked about the the design aspect first of all we talked about er the way the brain is involved in this communication and some of the aspects of the brain . |
| 28 | We currently run about 80 PCs , and our purchasing policy should combine new acquisitions to reduce sharing and spread workloads , with upgrades and replacements . |
| 29 | Yes , but we definitely talked about that . |
| 30 | Involving the fire , the exit th there , we actually talked about er , issuing a memo to all the branches and telling them there ought not be electrical equipment on overnight . |