Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | and , yeah , well did n't we phone her and had n't she had all that trouble , she 'd had shingles and |
| 4 | Why did n't we do the foul deed there , rather than risk facing a rugby team of accusing fingers at the inquest ? |
| 5 | At the Marquee , Phil 's father said that Ralph was using us — he just wanted us to play tonight and then it was all over , we 're finished , so why did n't we finish now ? |
| 6 | Why did n't we make a picnic by the lake ? |
| 7 | Why did n't we start raising hell straight away after Maastricht ? |
| 8 | Why did n't we pick him up ? |
| 9 | Well why did n't we see it ? |
| 10 | I said why did n't we have one big camp , for Christ 's sake . |
| 11 | Why did n't we have that one ? |
| 12 | ‘ Why did n't we realize ? ’ |
| 13 | But why did n't we get the best housing ? |
| 14 | ‘ Then why did n't we get sucked into the building like the others ? ’ said Cardiff , still holding on to him . |
| 15 | So we shall have lemon chicken , stuffed mushrooms , we had something else did n't we last time ? |
| 16 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |