Example sentences of "[coord] we [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I auditioned for them and they auditioned for me and we got to like each other and at that stage we did n't give a shit what each other looked like , we just realised that there was talent there . |
| 2 | It seemed ominous that the hotel was in Glasgow 's George Square , and we had met six-and-a-half years previously in George Square in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | And it and we had to collect twenty cans and then when you 've collected twenty cans that is enough for one trees one tree and it is gon na be planted in Sherwood Forest and it 's going to stay there for hundreds and hundreds of years . |
| 4 | Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place . |
| 5 | There was then the general context , RAWP had been sorted out , our other strategy had to be priority care , and we had to fund geographical equity and care group equity . |
| 6 | Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages . |
| 7 | And we had to shift this lot . |
| 8 | A day-trip from Phuket had only whetted our appetite and we had left that tourist ghetto by local bus and moved into a hot and grubby Chinese hotel in Phang Nga town . |
| 9 | And we had to pay fifteen quid for the train ticket . |
| 10 | and it just went and we had to get these guys who , who did the washing machine |
| 11 | We ran out of water and some other friends ran out of water and we had to help each other and we were getting stuck in the sand and the heat was very high because it was in August and it was around noon time , so erm some people actually turned back erm they could n't continue , unfortunately ; they are friends of ours . |
| 12 | We spent Chairman , two and a half hours discussing this matter at that point and we had come full circle back to point 1 . |
| 13 | And we 'd got these bags , , I said just bang all the sheets into bin bags , we can wash them next week if you think I 'm starting ! |
| 14 | It was nearly six o'clock , and we 'd got forty minutes to wait . |
| 15 | Er and most of us had in excess of a hundred pound , maybe a hundred and six , a hundred and ten pound , but when this guy bought place over , there was a kind of flat rate , and we 'd to drop sixteen pounds to ninety |
| 16 | It was quite cheap , though , and he said , erm , I think we 'll start with mine , because I always find Bulgarian a little bit acidic , and we 'd bought this bottle , and we both went out to the kitchen and both said gosh . |
| 17 | And we 'd had some pearls I said , I said I do n't remember buying you that , she said oh yes , she said you |
| 18 | I agreed to take a look at these efforts , and we arranged to meet next day after my morning lectures . |
| 19 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 20 | The women began to congregate and we rose to greet each other , even though we 'd met at breakfast less than an hour ago . |
| 21 | Er the r the steering committee consisted of eight members , one form each constituency , and we started meeting last November . |
| 22 | Then one night towards the end of January we had had too much Dexedrine and San Miguel , and we started exchanging acrimonious words . |
| 23 | ‘ We had only tents for shelter and we tried to make concrete blocks . |
| 24 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 25 | If the worst came to the worst and we did get another president , I would do it , but I 'd rather have a break for a little while . |
| 26 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 27 | Some said they 'd , they 'd be interested in playing , they knew how to play certain things and others wanted to play others and that 's how we started , and in a matter of a year the new headquarters at er Lowestoft was being opened , by the Dutchess of Kent , and we decided that the band was going to play at that one and you can imagine , and it was all ready and they were playing music , but I 'm not sure what , what quality music it was , and blow me on the week before , the band leader , the conductor decided he could n't play because he had a sprained wrist so we were left without a conductor even , but we managed to get another conductor and we played and I do n't know what it sounded like , but the Dutchess of Kent was very kind , she said the music sounded lovely . |
| 28 | ‘ We were having fun with the children but we seemed to lose each other , ’ says Davina . |
| 29 | It sounded okay but we kept getting these fumes . |
| 30 | It was next door to the Infants School but we had heard terrifying stories about life there . |