Example sentences of "[coord] we [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or we made a little fault with the design . |
| 2 | ‘ It would cost them too much to do a one-off in the normal way and we offered a cheap alternative . |
| 3 | ‘ So we tried — and we got a political appointment anyway . |
| 4 | And we got a yellow Fiat |
| 5 | Course it was very nice and we got a proper dinner at this erm mind you we were absolutely famished by the time we got there . |
| 6 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 7 | Er , but er most early morning and we got a little respite at the end of the day , but we were always welcome when we , when we saw the group returning again . |
| 8 | And we got a generous response . |
| 9 | And we got a full of chocolates and sweets and by the time we put their sweets on the top as well , there 'll be lots and lots by for Christmas . |
| 10 | Apart from what he found in bins — sweets , unopened crisp packets , seven corned beef sandwiches hygienically wrapped in foil — he went into a Chinese takeaway in a slummy area and asked for ‘ Fried rice leavings ’ and we got a massive pile each , full of scraps of prawn and mushroom and sweet-'n'-sour pork . |
| 11 | I think she is great , a nice person and a fine actress and we developed a great working relationship . |
| 12 | In my latter days at school , this old hall became the gym , and we had a new , much larger hall with room for chairs . |
| 13 | Alan came home as a Little Lord Fauntleroy , and we had a new baby brother , Geoff . |
| 14 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |
| 15 | It was so neat and we had a good time . |
| 16 | ‘ This was a nice place before gambling came back and we had a good tourist trade until Costner arrived . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He linked up well with Stuart Pearce and Nigel Clough , and we had a good run of success . |
| 18 | ‘ He is a good golfer and we had a good time . ’ |
| 19 | I was happy at school , with lots of friends , and we had a good time . |
| 20 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 21 | We had a good spring and we had a good set in year . |
| 22 | Ever since the Wesleys brought their message into the western dales , Methodism had been the strongest religion around here and we had a nice little chapel in the dale . |
| 23 | She seemed very nice and I thought she could act and we had a nice rapport , but I said to Sam , ‘ I just feel she 's the wrong type for a guy who 's a teacher in college . |
| 24 | And we had a nice coach this time . |
| 25 | They all stayed over and we had a superb Sunday lunch at the Garden House Hotel , lazing around until late afternoon when we went our separate ways . |
| 26 | First , I went round to her pad with my video and we had a great laugh looking at Glenys Kinnock on the verge of tears contemplating the ruin of her husband 's career . |
| 27 | ‘ We both spent most of our time working on the film , walking or sitting about in our dressing gowns and we had a great time together . ’ |
| 28 | The farm runs nearly 3,000 sheep and we had a great deal of interest represented by 641 enquiries , 46 viewers and ten who were seriously interested . ’ |
| 29 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 30 | And we had a small bonfire in a way of small twigs and all that . |