Example sentences of "[coord] we [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Or we made a little fault with the design .
2 She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement .
3 Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion .
4 ‘ It would cost them too much to do a one-off in the normal way and we offered a cheap alternative .
5 ‘ So we tried — and we got a political appointment anyway .
6 And we got a yellow Fiat
7 Course it was very nice and we got a proper dinner at this erm mind you we were absolutely famished by the time we got there .
8 Er , but er most early morning and we got a little respite at the end of the day , but we were always welcome when we , when we saw the group returning again .
9 And we got a generous response .
10 Apart from what he found in bins — sweets , unopened crisp packets , seven corned beef sandwiches hygienically wrapped in foil — he went into a Chinese takeaway in a slummy area and asked for ‘ Fried rice leavings ’ and we got a massive pile each , full of scraps of prawn and mushroom and sweet-'n'-sour pork .
11 ‘ A couple of interviews this morning , and I met Penny Seu Chen this afternoon and she showed me round our building , studios and offices , and we rearranged a few things in mine .
12 We also see that teaching will build people up and we make a small amount of time after worship for this also .
13 But the paradox goes like this — I mean any form of it is as follows : proteins , as most of you know , are strings of amino acids and we make a whole series of quite specific proteins .
14 I think she is great , a nice person and a fine actress and we developed a great working relationship .
15 Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine
16 Alan came home as a Little Lord Fauntleroy , and we had a new baby brother , Geoff .
17 I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh .
18 ‘ He linked up well with Stuart Pearce and Nigel Clough , and we had a good run of success .
19 We had a good spring and we had a good set in year .
20 It was so neat and we had a good time .
21 ‘ He is a good golfer and we had a good time . ’
22 I was happy at school , with lots of friends , and we had a good time .
23 ‘ This was a nice place before gambling came back and we had a good tourist trade until Costner arrived . ’
24 And we had a nice coach this time .
25 She seemed very nice and I thought she could act and we had a nice rapport , but I said to Sam , ‘ I just feel she 's the wrong type for a guy who 's a teacher in college .
26 They all stayed over and we had a superb Sunday lunch at the Garden House Hotel , lazing around until late afternoon when we went our separate ways .
27 First , I went round to her pad with my video and we had a great laugh looking at Glenys Kinnock on the verge of tears contemplating the ruin of her husband 's career .
28 ‘ We both spent most of our time working on the film , walking or sitting about in our dressing gowns and we had a great time together . ’
29 The farm runs nearly 3,000 sheep and we had a great deal of interest represented by 641 enquiries , 46 viewers and ten who were seriously interested . ’
30 And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again .
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