Example sentences of "and we [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I once travelled on a train from Leeds to London with Shaun and we got on fine .
2 And we got on this subject .
3 And we got to New York .
4 We rode under another arch , guarded by serjeants-at-arms wearing the royal arms of England ; great iron gates were flung open and we passed through these into the inner bailey , stopping before the great four-towered keep which soared up to the skies .
5 And we had about three boards in here and we had a board in there .
6 And we had on these shoes you know .
7 I and the girls , that 's , that 's all they got fifteen shillings because I was in the office I got a pound and mind you we slept in , we had all our food , you see , and we had to all sleep in .
8 That 's why I would expect to see and we planned to some extent , we may have under-planned an increase in costs .
9 We felt from this that there was , there was reasonable evidence to introduce this programme into our practice , and we , we looked at our patients erm at and , and we looked at all patients who 'd had moderately or well-differentiated transition cell carcinoma of the bladder at diagnosis , a non-invasive tumour , small , solitary , with a minimum follow up of one year .
10 And we looked at each other and said , ‘ We 'll go and get one . ’ ’
11 I covered it with mine and we looked at each other and he said , " How is he ? "
12 I turned and we looked at each other .
13 I sat beside her and we waited for those who had not yet arrived .
14 When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest .
15 Ellen caught my eye , and we stared at each other for a sympathetic fraction of a second , then I looked away to see that the sticky liquid had sprayed across the teak planks .
16 We started at seven in the morning and we finished at eight at night .
17 And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four .
18 Because we knew the speeds you know , and er the working of the machinery , the tools and equipment that were necessary to do the jobs , the , the application of er instrumentation you know , er what kind of materials ought to be used , er and , and we went into all that you know , in , in regard to setting up new times .
19 Auck Auckland and we went there and we went into this restaurant well believe it or not , I 've never seen food like that , I mean Joy asked for a leg of lamb , I did n't say leg of lamb , I had the cod pieces
20 When I found it , there was an argument and we went for each other . ’
21 And we went to one temple and it got dark whilst we were there , it was called the Monkey Temple , and it 's just so many monkeys around , and they just are allowed to run wild , but by the time we got back to our bikes it was dark and we had to cycle back in the dark without any lights on these unlit , unmade roads and that was quite frightening really .
22 And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things .
23 We did have committees and we began to coordinate activities and er careers conventions suddenly sprouted engineering council 's banners and the people all got together again under these banners and we went to these careers conventions and tried to obviously put across the image of engineering itself .
24 She was so beautiful that I just melted and we went to this tiny little room , where she washed me .
25 We went down there they 'd arranged for us er place to sleep and everything , and we went to this meeting it was quite a big hall I think they were all like Trade Union delegates and that .
26 Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time
27 It was a it was a little Italian restaurant with about forty six and we went at regional conference and it was astounding !
28 and we went on that other side
29 And erm we know that we went along this hill and we went along fifteen kilometres .
30 And we went round this estate ca n't remember where it was and erm thought knock on the doors and se , ask people had seen it and then later in the day this woman phoned up and said she saw a couple of kids walk down the road with it and sort of ca , called them over and said oh I heard that his , his .
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