Example sentences of "and we [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The papers are all subjected to these for several Conferences before they 're voted on and we lay great emphasis on achieving consensus on any motion , and I think today on the Palestine/Israel debate , which is obviously a very contentious issue , it went through in about half an hour , very calmly , very peacefully , because a lot of hard work had been done . |
| 2 | Silvery water swirled beneath and we spied grey wag tails on wet boulders in mid-stream . |
| 3 | Then the soldiers started coming back after the war , and we got new members of staff — earnest young men who got all intense about everything . |
| 4 | ‘ I played against them twice out there in 1984 and we got two hammerings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And we got these drawings these these |
| 9 | I was on bass , David was on acoustic guitar and we got this guy called Tex , he was a black conga player and came around with us doing a few gigs , although nothing really happened . |
| 10 | Profits are lower and earnings are lower than last year , but cash generation which we 've been working particularly hard on er for the past couple of years er and which we will be talking about further in a minute has come through extremely well er and we produced higher levels of cash this year than at any time in the company 's history . |
| 11 | Twice we nearly drove into a horse and cart and we passed three lorries . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's stuff that I like that them two do n't , and vice versa , but we 've got enough in common and we respect each other . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He gave the right advice to the industry and we followed that advice , ’ said Mr Henderson . |
| 14 | And we had sixty pullets at the point of lay in this house to be moved out from the house to a field . |
| 15 | In 1985 only 15 species of bird nested on the farm ; in 1992 our breeding list had reached 45 species and we had 156 pairs of birds nesting here . |
| 16 | And we had terrible job getting a contract off him . |
| 17 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
| 18 | And we had marvellous Christmas parties too . |
| 19 | They helped specify the system and we had regular meetings so nothing got out of hand . |
| 20 | In spite of being a reservoir , Carsfad provided excellent sport and we had great fun ; as long as I steered well clear of the dam . |
| 21 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 22 | We had the Bradford Football disaster and we had other disasters in nightclubs , the Fairfield Night Nursing Home in in Nottingham |
| 23 | Your mother divorced him and we had many interests in common . ’ |
| 24 | We had good education and we had good teachers , |
| 25 | But the company was always wanting new plays , and we had two theatres now . |
| 26 | ten ninety five and , and we had two bottles last night so it costs us sixty pounds . |
| 27 | And we had two shields , we had two separate teams to go immediately to the two bedrooms which , in our er esti est estimations , that will be where any adults were more likely to be in the flat . |
| 28 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |
| 29 | And we had two years with no pay rise . |
| 30 | ‘ We went to Druid 's Bottom and we saw Mister Johnny , gobble-gobble-gobble , and we went milking the scholly-ka , and we had roast pork for dinner … |