Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | We needed to go faster so we left him in a field , alive or dead . |
2 | ‘ So we kept it in the family , ’ he said . |
3 | We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’ |
4 | Our tiny underground Church was too small , so we invited everyone to the main hall of Munster Road School . |
5 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
6 | Frankie warned me he was comin' down the street so we wheeled it into the pantry until he 'd gone . |
7 | The standard way to do this journey is by changing at Chester , but I am never averse to a trip on my favourite line , the Cambrian Coast , so we did it via the Ffestiniog and the Conway Valley line . |
8 | But we were gon na do it erm , cos we got it on the Tamworth Heralds . |
9 | right , I mean I 'm not quite sure how Coslow will go about things , I mean the reason we wanted someone from Coslow is cos we wanted someone from the Federation of Scottish Theatre cos we had n't heard for a while |
10 | Not even if we squashed it into the cassette case . |
11 | ‘ So if we rebuilt it in a more palatial style we could make a real killing when we sold it . |
12 | Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’ |
13 | pull it up , well they might leave it and just co disconnect it but they they 'd have to bring it in , I do n't it 'd be better I think if we had ours in the back because the , the telephone thing comes in from the back be better than having it in the , in the passage really . |
14 | why consumers pay er in the European Community , it 's because we paying them two or three times more for our food than we would do if we purchased it on the world market erm . |
15 | ‘ We talked to Elizabeth , to Monty 's doctor and to Monty , and we all decided that it would kill Monty if we took him off the picture . |
16 | It 's what we used to do if we took them off a line and got them cleaning up , it 's a token tow pound ten a day . |
17 | and if we paid it before the end of January |
18 | Well , I mean , if we , if we did it with the free ferry , and there 's a possibility we might be able to get fairly cheap accommodation if we drove over there and stayed . |
19 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
20 | If we missed anything on the beat , even sunken flags in the roadway — and we did n't report them , we 'd get a report back wanting to know why . |
21 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
22 | We knew that it would n't just go away if we swept it under the carpet . |
23 | We all buy goods on impulse sometimes — simply because we saw them on the shelf of the shop . |
24 | Erm , dum , dum , the market stall as you know , we did n't have it in the market , we had it on the thank goodness because we parked it in the shade , erm during that period we got five hundred and thirty two signatures , with three or four more of you it could of been a thousand , erm we also got fourteen pounds , seventeen in donations , all completely unasked for cos as you know , we do n't take money . |
25 | ‘ Gog sent us to prison because we told him about the holes in the AOL . ’ |
26 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
27 | I do n't still have it , no , no it had got knocked about a bit , you know , being moved hither and thither and the other people have had it a bit as well as us , because we bought it from the people who lived next door when they left you see , cos when we started in here , we did n't have any carpets on these floors or under here it 's brown Marley tiling and I can still show you that |
28 | But not this year , but because we found ourselves in a very embarrassing situation with the forty point limit and the fact that we 've got Hans Nielson on ten point three two which you know , is good in one respect , but it erm makes very difficult situations down the bottom end . |
29 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |
30 | The story has n't changed since we heard it on the radio . |