Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cataract op. was brought forward a fortnight , so by yesterday I was quite ready to write some letters , and yours was top of the pile — only we went hospital visiting instead . |
| 2 | And so we took advantage of the tender and the contractor being in th in the area , to extend the water pipeline from its current location at the football stadi erm er pavilion , through to the cemetery . |
| 3 | She must have been away so we took flight . |
| 4 | So we drank tea for a while . |
| 5 | I doubt if our route caused any speculation in others at all , and so we finished lunch and turned west towards Sgor an Iubhair . |
| 6 | So we asked council if they could get us a place and they offered us a flat at first over the other side , I do n't know what walk it was on , and they says , You can stay there until we get an house for you . |
| 7 | So we wrote nancy boy all up his leg on this plaster . |
| 8 | So we got money coming in . |
| 9 | So we got bingo , we 've got the word naked on the front page , she 's dead crafty this girl . |
| 10 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 11 | So we travelled west from Maralal to the Cheranganis — a large range of mountains which include Nakugen Peak ( 11,580ft. /350m ) , the fourth highest mountain in Kenya . |
| 12 | So together we moved heaven and earth to ensure , in a difficult year , that the necessary money was made available . |
| 13 | Dragging ourselves away we headed east into the Chivenor MATZ and past Westward Ho ! , then followed the coast past Lynton and Porlock until we reached Minehead . |
| 14 | From the discussion above we began estimation with the following general autoregressive distributed lag model : where SPORTL and WW denote the stock of inward portfolio investment and the total wealth proxy , RSX is the real turnover on the UK Stock Exchange , JXC the exchange control index , Q i a seasonal dummy for quarter i , and DUM is a dummy variable equal to 1 in 1984 Q2 and zero at all other times . |
| 15 | ( But we proved that skinheads rule london ) anyway we got pull by the police and got dune with GBH . |
| 16 | Somebody said that it was a colder day than any we had morning I read Houghton 's Life of Keats and copied out some passages from Keats ' letters . |
| 17 | For once we had height advantage , possibly only 300 or 400 feet , but sufficient , I believe , for their top mainplanes to conceal us from their pilots ’ sight . |
| 18 | And almost at once we started work on the Crabbe . |
| 19 | Yesterday we had tea with a Rhodesia Front Senator who despises the Africans as ‘ savages ’ and blames the British for all Rhodesia 's ills . |
| 20 | Yesterday we received p.c. from Stephen — is n't he sweet to write to us — which reminded me that we had a much appreciated card from Alaska some time ago . |
| 21 | I thought you got Christmas off like we got Christmas off . |
| 22 | Right , like we poured stuff |
| 23 | For I have news of great moment to report , viz. that on Friday last by a night when the moon shone but weakly we had intelligence that our neighbours in this land were embarked upon a most fiendish and treacherous Enterprise , namely to do every man among us fatal harm while we were still sleeping in our beds . |
| 24 | Two hours later we weighed anchor , drew out into the dirty , oil-stained river and moved slowly downstream along London 's crowded waterfront , passing other ships , docks , warehouses , cranes , wagons and lorries , and all the come and go of men associated with the sea . |
| 25 | Later we tried wire netting over the sluice and then mesh screens which rested each side and after a heavy snowfall collapsed into it , unable to bear the weight . |
| 26 | So now we had electricity , petrol and water , and ineffable home-made bread which had the consistency of baked plaster . |
| 27 | She just said : ‘ Well we had fun did n't we . ’ |
| 28 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 29 | I er , in fact , we , yeah , we just had a problem yesterday , we started work for the Royal Scotsman and erm well we started work for them , like last year and we 've been doing jobs |
| 30 | Aye he did he used to visit yeah , well we lost contact with him really |