Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Before we came over here when we lived in we had an enormous front lawn |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 , |
| 5 | You have to come to a conclusion and Professor er described how we 've had to come to a conclusion . |
| 6 | In Chapter Five I described how we disguise our motives in conversation through using sub-text . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | writes very few found therefore we have no record in the limelight . |
| 9 | ‘ We were playing a percentage game and as the points came so we expanded . |
| 10 | I said when you came in we made it at school |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This marched him well up the field , and when the final scores came in we saw that he was in equal third place behind Brian Harley and the inevitable Bjorn Carlssen . |
| 13 | We went round all the calves , removing the lethal crusts and scrubbing the buds clean , and when we finally drove away we knew that the brief but painful episode of the Billings calves was over . |
| 14 | When he came home we saw each other often . |
| 15 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 16 | As they came close we watched as they demonstrated the subtle science of reading the often obscure words of the hymn and seeing where they were going at the same time . |
| 17 | But then it came natural we did n't take any notice of it , we thought it was what was expected of us you know . |
| 18 | We played whenever we got the chance in the evenings and if it did nothing else it kept us out of the bar . |
| 19 | This same attitude can also be seen in the exasperating , but typical , response that we received whenever we questioned a third party 's motives for doing something : ‘ Oh , sara ’ li kaa' ’ — roughly : ‘ Oh , it 's his business . ’ |
| 20 | When the offer first came up we 'd had an even lower-budget series go out on a national US cable network but , apart from that critically-lauded effort , no TV experience . |
| 21 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 22 | When he came back we sat down on the grass and had a breather while Mr Sykes , the butcher , and his assistants went on carving . |
| 23 | As we drove back we started to plan for the return to Backnong in 1993 . |
| 24 | Erm well we would like to see training of the trustees , there is no training at the moment er for the trustees in erm either of our schemes er and we very much in our submission came out we felt there should be er training from the trustees . |
| 25 | Oh , I , I can remember when fibreglass curtains first came out we bought some of those terrible things they just went in holes , you know if you touched them too much they just went in holes . |
| 26 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 27 | er , that farm down the road from us er , she came round we bought the |
| 28 | And when we got home we had ants in our pants , |
| 29 | And I remember , too , those I had n't eaten by the time I got home we hung on the tree . |
| 30 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |