Example sentences of "we [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Erm , may I just say , that you may recall , that at the nineteen eighty-eight A G M , we agreed that they 'd be no smoking here , er , and I hope that er er , can be adhered to , er , and finally er , I have a fairly full agenda , and the officials have have sort of er , measured it to the nearest minute .
2 Two dollars below the market price … and it turns out that we agreed that we do the whole operation for him in the United States … and he will supply another $10m for this start for bombing and , uh , assassinate in US .
3 Well , yeah , I spoke to them like , on the telephone , erm and basically they er and we agreed that we would n't take it any further so it er happened to be a police officer 's view as against our view , and whilst we did n't agree with the view , er we sent enough references to make our point known anyway .
4 And if you remember in the past , we agreed that we would send either one or two people on the project management safety courses that were being run by Vic .
5 But after we had heard background reports from social work and other sources , we agreed that we should buy the house back . ’
6 We agreed that we should be considered rather callous to go on with our usual life when we were reading of 3,000 to 4,000 casualties a day …
7 We agreed that it was indeed a fine day — a perfect day .
8 Is that if we took you on if we if we agreed that it my postal wallets might be a good idea for you and you were to delay coming into the er into the company by a week , it could change which company you go into .
9 We agreed that you would look at this to see whether there will be a need for something along the lines of your proposal once the Resource Book has been published .
10 When we talked we agreed that I should send you a copy of the Resource Book for Teachers on CALL .
11 We agreed that I would go .
12 As my French was better than Brian 's , we agreed that I would do the talking and that I 'd choose a moment when Mazzin was in one of his camarade moods so that neither of us would be starting from a point of anger .
13 We agreed that there needs to be increased participation and representation of Caribbean peoples , their needs and perspectives .
14 Certainly I was asked about this er well before the er E I P er and we agreed that there w Well certainly I agreed that I could see nothing wrong with that since it is a cl closed research project , and nothing will be divulged at all er publicly .
15 I had a spare bedroom and eventually , we agreed that he would come and live in my flat as a lodger — which is what happened .
16 ‘ Why did n't you tell me in Brighton when we met that I was n't in the team ?
17 We recommended that you have photographs taken when we gave you advice on assessing your shape in Chapter 3 .
18 Slowly the tension eased as we realised that we were going to make it ; we exchanged jokes , we moved with greater confidence .
19 When we realised that we 'd missed our flight to London from Antigua , my friend said , ‘ Let's find where Jean Rhys lived .
20 If we realised that we are all One , and that the only true reality is Love , how could we ever be lonely or afraid ?
21 Too late , we realised that we were breaking a taboo of British publishing : never before ( it was thought ) had a penis of any kind been printed on the cover of a mainstream magazine .
22 It is high time we realised that we are lagging behind and that roads alone can not solve our problem .
23 ‘ In the final analysis , we realised that our core competency is direct marketing , ’ the company explained .
24 We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets .
25 When , towards the end of 1985 , we merged with our sister bank to form Britain 's first nationwide 850-strong branch network , we realised that it would be important to develop name awareness throughout England and Wales .
26 ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight .
27 Then we realised that she 'd had diarrhoea so badly it was actually oozing out of her collar !
28 We realised that there could be some difficulties , and some apparent injustices might show up , but due to great consultative work put in by Councillors , and Mrs , often against great vilification and personal attack , many per problems were sorted out as they arose but we saw that i in April motions in amendments we see that it takes three full paragraphs of the amended motion to see that they deign to welcome initiatives which extend participation in decision making to schools , governors and parents .
29 When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms .
30 Er the only thing that I have not handed you is the Labour resolution which er twice mentions demands now although I 'm supporting this strong report here , I think it 's a mistake to demand things , it is , it does n't put people in a very good frame of mind to coax them but and I would ask the er Miss who I think we 're going to vote for this , whether she would consider changing to request , because I think we going to the situation where we make it known to the Department of Transport that we 're a string of such like , we do n't to upset them any more , I think that we requested that we answer is we would actually get a result in one .
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