Example sentences of "[coord] we [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I auditioned for them and they auditioned for me and we got to like each other and at that stage we did n't give a shit what each other looked like , we just realised that there was talent there . |
| 2 | And we got to know all the people there . |
| 3 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 4 | Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place . |
| 5 | Well , we should have knocked off work at about twelve on the Saturday , and instead of that , being a shop , they were taking orders and we had to do all the alterations as they came in , and bought the clothes . |
| 6 | They always left because they were afraid of my stepfather , and we had to do all the work in the house . |
| 7 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 8 | They bashed hell out of it so much that it bust wide open , and we had to use all our reserves to hold them . |
| 9 | This fact was disastrous to us , as we had only brought with us just enough food for a one night camping trip , with the minimum of emergency rations , and we had eaten most of this . |
| 10 | And we had to move all them , there were a lot of hooha about it in the paper about what , a year ago ? |
| 11 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 12 | The battledress was very good , I mean the army seemed to wore it all that time so er we had it for several years and we had to press that every day , thick material , very heavy . |
| 13 | And we had to shift this lot . |
| 14 | A day-trip from Phuket had only whetted our appetite and we had left that tourist ghetto by local bus and moved into a hot and grubby Chinese hotel in Phang Nga town . |
| 15 | And they were diffic To start them off , we went in on the Thursday , Thursday morning , and we had to fit all these things together and make 'em work , you see ? |
| 16 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 17 | ‘ He stole our front door keys and we had to have all the locks changed at our home . ’ |
| 18 | I was working on the gardens and we had to sweep all the grounds . |
| 19 | The shooting was completed , and we had passed all our physical tests . |
| 20 | and it just went and we had to get these guys who , who did the washing machine |
| 21 | We ran out of water and some other friends ran out of water and we had to help each other and we were getting stuck in the sand and the heat was very high because it was in August and it was around noon time , so erm some people actually turned back erm they could n't continue , unfortunately ; they are friends of ours . |
| 22 | we actually ended up with a lot more I P R people and we 'd done all the work and they got most of the money now that 's fine that 's the way life goes sometimes , but I must admit I think that depending on how big an event you want to make it you 're maybe as well to keep it an B A I E event and open it up quietly at the end |
| 23 | We used to play marbles in the alley-way together , and sail paper boats down the gutter when it rained , and we 'd spent all our hot summers together playing rounders on the field over the railway line and helping with the donkey-rides on the beach . |
| 24 | And we 'd got these bags , , I said just bang all the sheets into bin bags , we can wash them next week if you think I 'm starting ! |
| 25 | It was quite cheap , though , and he said , erm , I think we 'll start with mine , because I always find Bulgarian a little bit acidic , and we 'd bought this bottle , and we both went out to the kitchen and both said gosh . |
| 26 | We 've always had cats , always had cats , when we lived at and we moved into and we 'd had this one cat years , it were old cat . |
| 27 | And we 'd had some pearls I said , I said I do n't remember buying you that , she said oh yes , she said you |
| 28 | But , miraculously , everything seemed suddenly to fit into place and we managed to put all the horror behind us and start again . |
| 29 | However , lots of people did give very generously , and we managed to raise several thousand pounds for research and education on arthritis . |
| 30 | But one day a girl at school invited me to her home , and we began to see more of each other , became friends . |