Example sentences of "[vb past] we [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let us have two rooms but there was no visible staff , and the dining-room was closed : we ate , that evening , in a shabby bar in the middle of the town . |
| 2 | When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died . |
| 3 | the next leg to La Rochelle saw us arrive five minutes after the pumps shut , so we were stuck there for the night . |
| 4 | Oh I suppose we 've got ta , oh well what did we do last time ? |
| 5 | The bab the babies who are susceptible to getting this cold injury are , what did we do last week ? |
| 6 | So if you 're gon na talk about , what did we do last week ? |
| 7 | Yeah what did we do last week ? |
| 8 | Erm what did we do last week Paul ? |
| 9 | Why , in England , where there had been no invasion , did we drink watery coffee , eat cakes made with margarine , in dirty cafés decorated with ivy and bamboo wallpaper ? |
| 10 | Nor did we make much fuss over presents . |
| 11 | Nor did we make much effort to match the potent appeal of Tory policies on privatisation and council house sales . |
| 12 | Only once , after eight years of life in the jungle , did we observe this sequence of teaching behaviour . |
| 13 | What did we watch last night ? |
| 14 | And that 's why at that time , near the end of the war , and when the talk of nationalization become greater , the hope of nationalization because as I said before , never in our wildest dream did we think that Labour would get in with such an overwhelming majority . |
| 15 | Where did we go first time ? |
| 16 | Did we go last year ? |
| 17 | It 's a terrible name for me , where did we go last week ? |
| 18 | Where did we get that idea ? |
| 19 | Or when did we get that vase ? |
| 20 | After all this time reason and reason 's been knocked down , one after the other and what did we get last time ? |
| 21 | How did we get this piece . |
| 22 | However , we never put heterosexism itself on the conference agenda , nor did we ask heterosexual participants to discuss it . |
| 23 | Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry . |
| 24 | ‘ Boy , did we have great times . |
| 25 | Did we have two nets on ? |
| 26 | What did we have last time ? |
| 27 | What did we have last week |
| 28 | Did we have any rights ? |
| 29 | Did we have any difficulty with the old language ? |
| 30 | Only then did we introduce some terminology . |