Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The two of you here together on a Sunday , and we met you arriving another time
2 ‘ If we made him do cold turkey straight after the barbs , he 'd get the DTs , you know ?
3 As we hopped we saw grey phalaropes , inquisitive little birds seemingly unbothered by our presence , happily showing themselves now that there was insufficient light to film them .
4 We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking .
5 We got we got hydrochloric acid .
6 So that 's why we have n't , he wanted twenty , the home secretary wanted twenty up and running before Christmas , he did n't say which Christmas , but we presumed he meant last Christmas , and we said no , we 'll do it properly and get it started up right
7 When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine .
8 Really I suppose much the same way as those parents whom we interviewed who had some sort of educational knowledge or understanding of their own , since we 're both involved in education .
9 When we arrived they kissed each other good night and Albert kissed me on the cheek before he turned and walked off .
10 the empire we allowed them to have British passports did n't we ?
11 And it ended up we owed him say ninety quid .
12 But on this particular evening we discovered we had uninvited guests .
13 We watched him creating that knitting , talking about colour and going round and looking at the things which had inspired his imagination in his designing .
14 8e Lawrence admitted : ‘ We watched them play that day and they slaughtered us .
15 Well we thought they had last time we went .
16 We thought we had enough expertise with our our in-house training , without having to go on a separate one thousand five hundred pounds project management course .
17 Shirlie described the process : ‘ We knew we wanted strong shapes , with big jackets .
18 As we had referred to Turkey and the fact that Margaret and I had met there , and as we knew he took great interest in genuine peasant culture , we showed him some Turkish embroidery and in particular two typical Turkish saddle-bags , which we had transformed into cushions .
19 I thought when we did we did that programme out to lunch in the summer and you came along and we talked all about buses and er your organization and I I I was very nice to you actually .
20 But now I think there 's nothing more we can do here , and it 's time we left you to get some rest .
21 Oh no we had we had fresh meals for for ourselves and they had different meals for the for the gentlemen as well you know .
22 All the we had we did this week or were there no draws ?
23 He say , he said he 's a fu , he 's a terrible player and he played against Bob and I and we had we want two double .
24 We had it built two years ago .
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