Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew they had to go so we messed around with it . |
| 2 | Well we took our turn and we waited to go in but once we got in we broke away from the crowd and when they all came out and went to lunch in the town we did n't . |
| 3 | Before we came over here when we lived in we had an enormous front lawn |
| 4 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 5 | There was a big argument about what we should buy so we had a vote on it . |
| 6 | So we talked and I said well we would think about it and we would let him know so we collected all the friends that we thought would like to help which were many people were very good to help ! |
| 7 | We when we got the song first and recorded we we were talking one day and we were just saying it would be an ideal song for Children in Need you know so we decided that we 'd er donate all the proceeds from this track on the video and album and the concert in Stockport , it 's tomorrow night is n't it ? |
| 8 | I 've got ta , I think people are so un-organised with Christmas , you 've got to be organised , you 've got to say like , you know , I 'm only going to those shops , you know , if like like now , say so we went in Boots |
| 9 | and then mum decided she was going to come so we took the car . |
| 10 | We like walking so we bought a second-hand backpack for him which has proved to be a lot more useful — it 's much easier to carry him in it . |
| 11 | Now that my divorce has come through we thought it was time to tell people that we were getting married and start seeing each other openly . |
| 12 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
| 13 | When we set Headline up we spent nearly a year before publishing our first full list putting in place the systems that would allow the company to expand . |
| 14 | Refreshed bodily we filled the nearby Church of the Annunciation for our Holy Hour , followed by a torchlight procession to the Grotto in the grounds of Elham House . |
| 15 | ‘ We realise now we made a mistake but everyone in Cyprus assured us it was a formality , ’ said Mary . |
| 16 | To find out we asked a number of interested parties for their own budget proposals . |
| 17 | It is as we know going to be grandly opening , it has cost more than we anticipated as Bill 's probably said , we found out we had to put the foundations on a raft , because er , |
| 18 | Because we er if , if his erm if his er desires were carried out we 'd , well we 'd be talking about thousands of pounds . |
| 19 | Outside the marquees driving around we stopped to look at ‘ Labyrinthian Surprise ’ , a very fine tribute to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on her 90th Birthday . |
| 20 | The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods . |
| 21 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend say how we compared internationally in the 1970s and the 1980s ? |
| 22 | By the time we are old enough to be surprised at our own cleverness we have forgotten how we acquired it . |
| 23 | Monsieur Brisset arranged an appointment for us , and later that day Paul Ingouf , in his office , passed to us a typewritten page from the secret daily record that had been kept during the war ; listed there we saw : |
| 24 | I do n't know how we escaped it so much but we have you see . |
| 25 | I 'm being allowed onto her ecologically correct territory , and no one there will know how we kissed and almost , as good as , made love … but I will and she will . |
| 26 | We were waiting for Alfred to drop he gun , I do n't know how we knew he had one but we knew , and slowly he took it out of his waist and dropped it . |
| 27 | But , in all honesty , I do n't know how we got through those early days and I certainly would n't like to do so again . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't even know how we got to be born . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't really know how we got together — it was so quick . |
| 30 | We do n't know how we got in either |