Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 So we had to obey all her orders , and Joseph and I were not allowed to scold her any more .
2 He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon .
3 Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that .
4 so we had to put some a bit of heat in .
5 I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over !
6 So we had to get some ways to try and get something down .
7 so we decided to join that for this year .
8 So we decided to test these claims .
9 So we decided to occupy some unused land owned by Don Juan Lopez , the big landowner of our region .
10 Oh , he 's got to get motivated cos if we 're going away we got to save some pennies up and if we commit ourselves then we 've got to save pennies up , it 's no good coming and saying to me you 're going away next week , I shall turn round and say sod you matey we 're not cos we 've got no bloody money .
11 ‘ I knew that whatever I was producing , I was meant to have : that somehow we had chosen each other .
12 ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything .
13 But once we had to walk all day and climb great trees for just one honey comb .
14 But it , it did and , and I think there again a little bit of Guild influence because when er we were at meetings we would say , well what are you going to do about the er drapery you know and eventually we did get this better erm you know , drapery .
15 Right we had had this like we had er ten minutes rugby of the world cup like and this guy he went whoooo ah .
16 I felt embarrassed : clearly we had seen more of Flora at this time than I remembered .
17 I though we 'd specified that
18 Now we had to reverse all those brittle ice traverses with broken tools .
19 Well we wanted to see that but erm , it 's three and half hours , three plus hours which erm we wanted
20 Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told
21 Well we did have some rain but
22 In the years since , we 've kept a Northern Ireland file , and a few months ago we had collected enough encouraging evidence to make us think that a concerted effort would enable us to name the man most consistently pointed at as being in control of the IRA , Martin McGuinness .
23 I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front .
24 Sometimes we got into a shoal of them and pulled them in as fast as we could handle the lines ; sometimes we failed to find any .
25 Oh did n't you know , I could 've told you that you know then we got to know all the all the things when it was too late but as regards my mother telling us anything brrr no .
26 Then when I took er you 'd you could take a proficiency test which was held at , at your Company Headquarters by a visiting officer and erm I then , we 'd , by then we 'd had some American weapons come , one was the Browning automatic which is a very very good good er weapon , you could r fire single shots or rapid shots .
27 Then we had to leave that too .
28 And then we had to cut those out , by hands hand , that er of course entailed quite a lot of work er for er for the mortices to be cleaned out , and the tenons to be cut by hand , so that they fit in the proper places .
29 Then we tried to link all of this with the strategies the teacher was actually observed to use in her interactions with children elsewhere in the room .
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