Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb past] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We probably presented quite an obscene picture and suddenly we seemed to have an audience . |
| 2 | So we went to see the humans . |
| 3 | So we had to redecorate the house very quickly because I could n't bear it . ’ |
| 4 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 5 | so we had to take a hundred and twenty five pound off what we owed |
| 6 | So we had to shrink the hall . |
| 7 | So we had to rent a forklift truck from somewhere , then manhandle the saw into the workshop . |
| 8 | So we had to get the bobbies down to kick the door in , and you can imagine at three o'clock in the morning , some some deaf and dumb couple , there 's this big coloured bobby le leaning over and waking them up . |
| 9 | So we managed to get the lorry out and I got on the ‘ phone to Bristol University . |
| 10 | So we decided to pilot a project involving Bangladeshi women from Tower Hamlets in the East End of London . |
| 11 | So we decided to take a look at some of the alternatives available — with one proviso , they all cost less than £10 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So we decided to row the boat down to Clara 's house on Wednesday , collect Magwitch , and continue right down the river to Essex , where we could stop one of the foreign ships sailing from the port of London to Germany or Holland . |
| 14 | Remote though this area can be , even the minor roads are generally good , although once we had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to ‘ high ’ to increase ground clearance through a ford . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Slowly we began to take the whole idea of the band more seriously . |
| 17 | Eventually we stopped to walk the horses , the guide going ahead . |
| 18 | She tried to explain that it was only the symptoms that had gone , and that now we had to tackle the causes . |
| 19 | We 'd always been boastful , conspicuous , triumphalist in our love ; now we had to tell the World . |
| 20 | Then we would fling ourselves upon each other at all hours of the day and night make love upon the unmade bed , for often we refused to let the maid in to make up the room : |
| 21 | Well we began to tackle the housing problem because this was a very big problem . |
| 22 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 23 | Most of the concrete has gone and er well we tried to tidy the place up a little bit . |
| 24 | Well we tried to order a manual did n't we ? |
| 25 | and then we went to see the Curly Sue |
| 26 | Then we had to change the Unions to Newsize and er I er I became National President of the Newsize er district inspectors branch of Newsize Yes I was president till I retired . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |
| 29 | Then we tried to get a pair of shoes , also a standard model . |
| 30 | ‘ Then we decided to push the business . |