Example sentences of "we [verb] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | A German tourist we met there , who had come tourist class from Cuzco , told us how she had given money and pens at each stop to the children who crowded the carriage windows . |
| 2 | The great , I mean , you 've a valid point and I think it 's due to the recession in America , I think we were disappointed were we not Bruce , that the results of our trip to er , New York State , and this has nothing to do with the enthusiasm of the business people we met there , everything to do , in my view , with the fact that the recession , and America 's been through a very tough recession , they just do n't look to expand elsewhere , but the reaction we had in , in er , in America was very , very powerful of , of a wish to want to do something when things look better . |
| 3 | We lay there silently , then he got up and left the room , leaving me lying there in an agony of frustration and guilt , furious with myself for having given way , yet curiously glad I had finally done so . |
| 4 | We had to make a hollow in the mud , and we lay there like swallows : we used to long for the dark so we could stand up and straighten our legs . |
| 5 | And we lay there . |
| 6 | We produced there only fancy leathers However , two years ago , we decided to close this plant in mainly because I 'm getting fairly old nowadays and my son had many activities to take charge of . |
| 7 | Where did we go on a Sunday and we passed there ? |
| 8 | But it does not invalidate the argument of the last paragraph : so long as we judge there to be a need for government and common policies , democratic principle will require that minorities have to accept majority decisions to which they are opposed . |
| 9 | The first items unpacked were trout-rods ; and they stayed up , ready and waiting for instant use for as long as we lived there . |
| 10 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
| 11 | After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there . |
| 12 | ‘ My father bought the estate before the war for the milk , not ever intending to go there , but then when the war came we lived there , from about 1942 when I was four and the first things I remember in life were from there . ’ |
| 13 | I wish we lived there , Albert Sandwich is luck . |
| 14 | But if we lived there , we would n't have it to look forward to , would we ? |
| 15 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 16 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 17 | Well my father , when we lived there he worked at the Colliery and he used to walk home and during he s , before before he m before the strike we used to have these pheasants and things , and rabbits which he used to catch , because early morning he seemed to know exactly where to go to get a a pheasant that was roosting in a tree , you see or a bush . |
| 18 | We did n't feel brave at all it was just , we lived there and we did n't feel under any kind of threat . |
| 19 | We lived there for another four years , until it became too difficult for me to manage the stairs . |
| 20 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 21 | Well we lived there er yes the whole , whole time , all our married life . |
| 22 | We lived there until 1960 … |
| 23 | It would nice if we lived there but we ca n't so |
| 24 | it was like Jersey , we lived there for twenty , twenty years did n't we ? |
| 25 | by we lived there |
| 26 | Now Northampton is twenty one miles from Bedford now we were never classed as living in the south when we lived there . |
| 27 | When we got there , we were introduced to several divers who swapped telephone numbers with us and it was suggested that we have a dive with an instructor to re-orient us to diving in this country . |
| 28 | However eventually we got there — our own fire was out and off we went towards one of the largest of the evening . |
| 29 | When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City . |
| 30 | As soon as we got there , I started yelling for I was really scared , thought I should drown , but the grown-ups just laughed and off we slid , down the steep slope to hit the water with a mighty splash , then gently floated to the other side of the pool to disembark . |