Example sentences of "[coord] we [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middle of the following week and we got the first reconciliation yesterday . |
| 2 | The guard did not challenge us and we followed the faint trackway till Benjamin reined in and offered me a bulging wineskin . |
| 3 | John Wildig travelled on the first down train , we both , with his sons , went on the West Wales train from Carmarthen to Fishguard and return , and we followed the double header from Llandovery to Craven Arms . |
| 4 | We could mobilise the resources and we had the moral drive . |
| 5 | They sat with us and we had the greatest time . ’ |
| 6 | This is a , you know , this is the third one which is er was similar to others we 've had , the steps and we had the other door and a few steps down , and then , this is all similar types of photographs and all taken from different sort of angles . |
| 7 | And we had the fantastic help in from South Wales , most thos terribly good er people were terribly good to us in organizing er different things . |
| 8 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 9 | and we had the cheapest fares for many years because of that |
| 10 | And we had the wrong contacts with the wrong people . |
| 11 | It was good fun except for the fact that it was extremely cold and we had the wrong Bethlehem carol sheet . |
| 12 | He sent for me and demanded my resignation , and we had the worst row I 've ever had in my business life . ’ |
| 13 | Well we 've locked the bottom half , cos Steve got a lock and we locked the bottom half . |
| 14 | We had our ‘ author-friendly contract ’ , which was easy for authors to understand , and we signed the Minimum Terms Agreement fairly early on . |
| 15 | They came on the Friday and we signed the damned papers , did n't we , and they took away my social security book . |
| 16 | Afterwards we flew back to Greg 's house and we spent the next week working real hard . |
| 17 | In fact they encouraged us most warmly , and we shared the general mood of elation at the overall success of the 1974 submission . |
| 18 | Er and we shared the common objective that these minutes would have to be scrutinized purposefully because if there was any element er in any of the minutes that we did n't disagree with , then we would point it out to the management and had a redraft and have a signed redraft er by the secretary and the convenor , which meant that er at least we were all talking with a common voice . |
| 19 | I picked him as my friend because he was a quiet , kind boy and we shared the same interest . |
| 20 | Apart from hay-making , the other important events in Baldersdale , or any other farming dale , centred around the animals , and we kept the usual selection . |
| 21 | I was champing at the bit to investigate Stanford shopping precinct before my 2 p.m. hospital appointment with Dr Levy and his team , so Kenneth hastily finished his third helping and we walked the short distance to the precinct . |
| 22 | The following Sunday was bright and clear , and we sang the full morning service in bright sunshine under ‘ the high vault of heaven . ’ |
| 23 | Beautiful white , pastel pink and blue houses nestle in the cliffs and we took the funicular railway down the cliff side to the pretty harbour at Skala for a closer view and a donkey ride back up through the twisting mountain road . |
| 24 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 25 | Yes and we took the whole thing down to the kitchen for the upstairs rooms were just going like this . |
| 26 | We got our first publishing contract through that , but we were just signing as songwriters and we made the odd grotesque , poppy single ! |
| 27 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 28 | And we saw the religious people , the religious men , who erm are the only people that are allowed to smoke drugs , you know , illegal drugs er things like marijuana , they 're actually allowed to because the people view them as half alive and half dead and that was interesting to see . |
| 29 | And we began the long process of actually sort of causing it to be reborn . |
| 30 | Maxine came to see me again the following week and we began the follow-up treatment , along the lines of those which you will find detailed in the ‘ case histories ’ sections of this book . |