Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we took our turn and we waited to go in but once we got in we broke away from the crowd and when they all came out and went to lunch in the town we did n't . |
| 2 | Before we came over here when we lived in we had an enormous front lawn |
| 3 | My son started a youth club in one of the common rooms and we as residents we got together we really enjoyed ourselves in our way , you know ? |
| 4 | Adrian Titcombe , the FA 's crowd management co-ordinator , said : ‘ We want to be clear where the trouble occurred so we will study all the reports before coming to any conclusion . ’ |
| 5 | Refreshed bodily we filled the nearby Church of the Annunciation for our Holy Hour , followed by a torchlight procession to the Grotto in the grounds of Elham House . |
| 6 | It is as we know going to be grandly opening , it has cost more than we anticipated as Bill 's probably said , we found out we had to put the foundations on a raft , because er , |
| 7 | Once we moved here we all started to miss our old home in Blackpoint ( Canada ) , so at the moment as a family we are planning to move back either to Canada or Australia . |
| 8 | In Chapter Five I described how we disguise our motives in conversation through using sub-text . |
| 9 | You have to come to a conclusion and Professor er described how we 've had to come to a conclusion . |
| 10 | Monsieur Brisset arranged an appointment for us , and later that day Paul Ingouf , in his office , passed to us a typewritten page from the secret daily record that had been kept during the war ; listed there we saw : |
| 11 | writes very few found therefore we have no record in the limelight . |
| 12 | Every month when I came on we would say , never mind , next time . |
| 13 | When Wallace came on we immediately sounded more threatening . |
| 14 | Before he came along we 'd mess around with songs like ‘ Build Me Up Buttercup ’ , with me fiddling around on a little clavinet that we 'd found knocking around somewhere and Steve singing . |
| 15 | And as they came along we used to have to hang these checks on the number you see ? |
| 16 | ‘ We were playing a percentage game and as the points came so we expanded . |
| 17 | As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier . |
| 18 | This marched him well up the field , and when the final scores came in we saw that he was in equal third place behind Brian Harley and the inevitable Bjorn Carlssen . |
| 19 | We were , hitherto erm if a person had a problem regarding er his piecework , er it may never have been er er argued to the point where , when the new system came in we were educated you know to the extent where we knew how to apply ourselves to the argument . |
| 20 | I said when you came in we made it at school |
| 21 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 22 | We went round all the calves , removing the lethal crusts and scrubbing the buds clean , and when we finally drove away we knew that the brief but painful episode of the Billings calves was over . |
| 23 | When he came home we saw each other often . |
| 24 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 25 | Last time we came home we , we came off the motorway and . |
| 26 | As they came close we watched as they demonstrated the subtle science of reading the often obscure words of the hymn and seeing where they were going at the same time . |
| 27 | But then it came natural we did n't take any notice of it , we thought it was what was expected of us you know . |
| 28 | We played whenever we got the chance in the evenings and if it did nothing else it kept us out of the bar . |
| 29 | This same attitude can also be seen in the exasperating , but typical , response that we received whenever we questioned a third party 's motives for doing something : ‘ Oh , sara ’ li kaa' ’ — roughly : ‘ Oh , it 's his business . ’ |
| 30 | When the offer first came up we 'd had an even lower-budget series go out on a national US cable network but , apart from that critically-lauded effort , no TV experience . |