Example sentences of "[coord] we [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 2 | What we had to do was pop out to buy daddy a card and we got a paper and we got some biscuits and cake for tea for tomorrow . |
| 3 | Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief . |
| 4 | Thought we 'd have a reading session so we had a reading book and we had some maths . |
| 5 | And we had some friends there and one day one of them rang me up and she said , could , could we come quickly we 've got a , a monitor lizard in the garden ? |
| 6 | That worried us as there were several great skuas working the sky above the bog , and we spent some time waiting for the goose to return before setting off again . |
| 7 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 8 | There was a big municipal clock outside the town-hall , and we took some photographs underneath it . |
| 9 | And we heard some figures about G P's , ninety two percent of those G P's who 've got their own budgets are seeing the benefits to their patients and their patients are saying so as well . |
| 10 | And erm we went on an elephant on a safari and we looked for erm wild animals and we saw some rhinos , and that was quite good fun . |
| 11 | He told us what he was going to do and we knew some people were going to get killed , but that 's just life . |
| 12 | Yeah well we we thought we would erm erm try and get the Asian community involved and we included some sequences with Asian clothes with Asian music an tha that was all very impressing for for the white people as well as the Asian people in the audience . |
| 13 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 14 | So we to the hardware shop and we bought some mats and dishes and God knows what ! |
| 15 | She seemed most impressed , and said that I should meet her boyfriend who was looking for a bass player , and so I joined his jazz-rock band back in 1973 and we did some touring in Britain . |
| 16 | Finally , we compared the three different ways the Acousticube can be plugged into a desk , and we found some problems . |
| 17 | So this is a tree stump we have here , and we found some mice on the way as well . |
| 18 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a hard-fought game , but we played some quality football and won 3-2 . |
| 20 | He agreed , but we had some difficulty in deciding what . |
| 21 | I knew almost nothing about physics but we shared some jokes about the Rome telephone system . |
| 22 | But we shoved some veg in it . |