Example sentences of "and we [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were on the ground floor of the flats , and we got to know a lot of them as neighbours as well as some of them as clients . |
| 2 | But when we observe two or more elements and we wish to define a relationship between them , we often turn to a third form of abstraction : we project a feeling quality onto the relationship . |
| 3 | If the charges are within a finite volume and we wish to determine the potential at a point P , far away from this volume , the formula we have obtained before ( eqn ( 2.23 ) ) may be simplified . |
| 4 | ‘ He came out of his house with a shotgun and a dog and we had to call the police . |
| 5 | And we had seen the horses er er struggling and kicking Strange horses . |
| 6 | ‘ The week before we had noticed that the shutters were open at the tower ( no more picnics ) and we had seen the car . |
| 7 | They would n't , the miners hardly got anything and there used to be soup kitchens for us and er when it first started in nineteen twenty six and er I was pregnant with my second one and I used to walk right down to Pit with a lace , great big lace basket , they would n't let the men fetch the coal and we had to push the coal from there right to the , oh they 've no idea love , no idea . |
| 8 | The problem was then pointed out to us and we had to employ a plumber to put matters right . |
| 9 | ‘ We could not move back home and we had reached the end of Palestine . ’ |
| 10 | We used to do needlework and we had to make a needlework apron in gingham , with lots of pockets for your buttons , and your thread , and your bottle of gin and all that … . |
| 11 | You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see . |
| 12 | I was a passenger in a microlight and just after taking off the engine spluttered and we had to make an emergency landing . |
| 13 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 14 | The hostages had to stay where they were , and we had to play the game . |
| 15 | At the time I was in public relations with the old National Coal Board , and we had hired the services of a club hypnotist to entertain some of our clients and agents . |
| 16 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 17 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 18 | Upon reaching Tarbes as forecast , the cloud base was around 600 to 800 feet and we had to fly an ILS approach . |
| 19 | We 'd hardly gone half way when it began to rain and we had to run the rest of the way to queue under shelter . |
| 20 | And we had to keep an eye open for police patrols . |
| 21 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , ’ he began hesitantly , ‘ it all began when Una took sick and we had to get the doctor … ’ |
| 23 | It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge . |
| 24 | Cameras went wrong , George 's microphone was n't working and we had to start the show again , a light exploded . |
| 25 | ‘ At one point things got out of hand and we had to organise a group of MPs a Make-up Patrol crew to follow the actors around to see that they did n't eat anything or do anything that would affect the prosthetic face gear . ’ |
| 26 | The mountain behind the farmhouse was lost in a mist of snow and sleet and we had to smash the ice on the horse trough in the mornings . |
| 27 | I go along with that one , and we 'd commandeered the scullery back of the kitchen to pollute our bodies with addictive anti-stress-related poison . |
| 28 | You know and then er and then er and we 'd got no gas in when I was quite little . |
| 29 | It meant me having to dash back to England because my passport was at home , and we 'd got no tickets . |
| 30 | By the time I 'd sawn the wood to the right length and we 'd nailed the pieces together to form a floor , we were both sweating . |