Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 2 | so we had to take a hundred and twenty five pound off what we owed |
| 3 | So we had to rent a forklift truck from somewhere , then manhandle the saw into the workshop . |
| 4 | So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises . |
| 5 | So we decided to pilot a project involving Bangladeshi women from Tower Hamlets in the East End of London . |
| 6 | So we decided to take a look at some of the alternatives available — with one proviso , they all cost less than £10 . |
| 7 | So we decided to take a look at just a little of what was on offer — comparing the leading firework brand with a cheaper one on offer . |
| 8 | so we did like a meal for , I think there was about thirty of them |
| 9 | On our first trip together we had visited a café of a very old-fashioned kind , called Cafeteria Varela Reposteria in Preciados , and I had noted an inscription saying En este lugar escribiõ sus mejores versos el gran poeta Emilio Carrere 1881–1947 . |
| 10 | So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get . |
| 11 | For a few miles , as we hugged the shore of the Strait , the northbound road was paved ; but once we had passed a junction and the track leading eastwards across to Argentina , it reverted to rutted gravel and the wind blew little spirals of dust across it , like ectoplasmic tumbleweed . |
| 12 | On our way home we tried to find a Mothers Day card for Mark to send to his Mum , but I think all the Dalseattie shops must have the same supplier and sell those ghastly pink-ish cards with really crass ditties inside ugh . |
| 13 | By now we had reached a delectable small pool hidden away in willow trees : Willow Pool . |
| 14 | Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out . |
| 15 | Well we tried to order a manual did n't we ? |
| 16 | Erm y you get a lot of well we did get a lot of verbal abuse from the young the youngsters . |
| 17 | Well we did have a few of your funny friends on afterwards saying do you know this man is he he he is er got the best in parties . |
| 18 | Well we did have a look but we have n't found it anywhere . |
| 19 | Well we did have a letter off erm Good Neighbours through the lady who also came to sing , cos I know her |
| 20 | Such a short time she was in my arms and then we had to find a hole in the earth to place her ; a piece of stone to mark her passing . |
| 21 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |
| 22 | Then we tried to get a pair of shoes , also a standard model . |
| 23 | Then we stopped to have a cigarette . |
| 24 | By the end of the nineteen fifties life in Orkney had come full circle and like everyone else we had acquired a taste for the material things in life . |
| 25 | In Southport recently we had planned a 3Oft ( 9m ) Portakabin to serve as part of a wall around a car park . |
| 26 | Afterwards we had spent a few stolen days at the ski resort of Grindelwald , in the shadow of the Eiger North Face . |
| 27 | Ah , number four , interesting one this , actually we did have a few er , mishaps on number four , employed client twenty four thousand , I 'll just do this one on the board , I think it might be an idea . |
| 28 | I think certainly we had to have a figurehead to relate to and in my opinion , Tom was the best one to have there . |