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

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1 The last council yes and why not and this council and we have n't heard the end of it yet , well I 'll be coming to that bit do n't rush , do n't rush me We did ask the Secretary of State not to impose V A T on fuel and light because of the hardship it would impose on the people and in particular elderly pensioners , sick and invalids .
2 but I mean they were n't you know and I mean someone we did n't even know at all , so er you know all erm but I mean Lionel sat with the guy that organized it and the bus driver so he did n't feel out of it , you know ,
3 We had continuous news from the front , but unless it involved someone we knew , it had little effect on us .
4 ( I 've forgotten who we re-sold him to ) .
5 As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier .
6 It did n't seem to need any food , though we tried everything we thought it might like .
7 Have we sorted it we got .
8 Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that
9 So far , City Lives has been funded largely by its interviewees , but , Courtney says , ‘ we have not interviewed anyone we did n't want ’ .
10 We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl .
11 When we described what we wanted to do , he said , ‘ That 's totally impossible .
12 The next day was hungover and quiet ; everybody wanted to know what we had got up to , and Girod told us that we would not be accompanying the section in town that afternoon .
13 We were old enough to know what we wanted at last .
14 This is why and one of the the real problems with this is it 's not that I 'm criticising , it 's just that if in fact you 've got somebody who was appointed as a treasurer , you can in fact get more information out of it , instead of having to guess what we got from where and how it came in .
15 We were adjusting the seasoning in a salmon terrine , and had nervously added what we thought to be the appropriate amount .
16 If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us .
17 I had Y equals something do n't know what we had
18 ‘ He did once say to me that we did n't know what we 'd got a hold of .
19 , do you know what we spent , listen , listen , mummy do this , we spent a Christmas in Hungary right , their Christmases right , Christmas Eve the snowplough is out on the road clearing the snow , it was that deep , it was up in
20 Do you know , do you know what we did with that , that Cadbury 's Creme
21 Oh I du n no , I do n't know what we did at that
22 Well last , last week we were watching er , I do n't know what we watched
23 Except to say that it was scrupulously chosen , as was usual with Eliot , I forget what we ate on the occasion : we had so much to talk about .
24 some of them , some of them he said , I forget what we took we got them a bottle of Coke did n't we ?
25 I forget what we had been talking and arguing about , but probably it was something connected with our continuing confusions about poetry and sex .
26 The French should be reminded what we lost to free them from oppression .
27 So that would predict what we found , that anyone saw no one is ill-formed .
28 One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out .
29 They learn , as Elizabeth said earlier , you know , we 're models and children learn more by what we do more than what we preach , so you know we do have to repair what we did n't learn maybe earlier on .
30 And er apart from canvassing which we did .
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