Example sentences of "[coord] we [vb past] [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once on a hilltop the trees broke , and we looked back and saw a vast red light on the horizon . |
| 2 | And we drove round and she 's got a bungalow and all she 's got these curtains that all cross over and when you sit outside it do n't look as if there 's any lights on . |
| 3 | and we went up and down erm the valley and we saw some of the Hindu temples |
| 4 | And we tidied those areas up and we went round and said right , the people with the problem areas , take 'em round and show them . |
| 5 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 6 | and we went in and like the vicar greets you at the door do n't he and she was like up to the vicar like , you know , she 's more fucking heavier than thou |
| 7 | behind the antique shop , and we went along and had a look and at ten o'clock it had dropped right down to the second step from the bottom roughly |
| 8 | Our breath made huge clouds of steam which hid our faces as we talked , and we hopped about and shrugged elaborately to ward off the penetrating fingers of cold that probed at our necks and hands . |
| 9 | I caught a bit of it on and we sat down and went to sleep . |
| 10 | Well what we did we stopped at this track and we turned round and we went to there was like a twenty foot straight yeah , and there 's like and everybody 's sort of like going , no , not that . |
| 11 | I think they showed that one Christmas or something and were watching something else and we turned over and the instant we turned over , this girl wobbled across the screen , and my mum straight away switched it back on the other side me and me brothers right in the other room watching there . |
| 12 | I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on |
| 13 | fancy the paella he said no problem I make paella so , I mean all of half an hour went by , but we went in and we had paella and then all these people started dancing , they moved the chairs back and they started clapping and singing and dancing and I said is this |
| 14 | ‘ But we tunnelled through and got two little kids out alive . |
| 15 | But we held on and around 1990 I felt it was starting to develop . ’ |