Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two . |
| 2 | They 're not angst-ridden outsiders and they exhibit no signs of the burgeoning self-importance , self-pity and self-aggrandisement we became so used to during John Hughes ' years as Tycoon of Teen . |
| 3 | On trips into London after we 'd finally moved to Wales , I would raid skips and bring back the booty on the car roof-rack . |
| 4 | We 'd best go to t'stables , like he said . ’ |
| 5 | We 'd better go to Miss Miggs and tell her what happened . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd better go to bed . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ David , I think we 'd better go to bed . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think we 'd better go to bed , ’ Harold said , shuffling impatiently . |
| 9 | Yeah , we 'd better go to Sainsbury 's , |
| 10 | If we 'd only stuck to Perrier … |
| 11 | And then we decided not to go to the Hanover Fair , so change the specification so that it could be a a versatile sort of display for whatever we wanted to display . |
| 12 | During the next two filming trips for Trials of Life we grew more used to the forest , and the chimps became more confident with Mike . |
| 13 | ‘ We did n't mean to be bad , Mother , ’ cried Bobbie . |
| 14 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
| 15 | When the Manchester thing was happening we did ‘ The Beast Inside ’ because we did n't want to be part of what was going on . |
| 16 | ‘ We did n't want to be another Surrey , where Rudi Bryson has been a disaster . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We did n't want to be press barons ’ , observes Miles . |
| 18 | Er the work that I 've referred to earlier in terms of the through traffic , was assessed before the southern bypass was open er and so we did put in place er a traffic automatic traffic counters on a number of key routes er to see whether on opening of the southern bypass , the actual effects er where the same as we were modelling cos clearly we were concerned that we did n't want to be er basing our assessments of of of of further relief roads on a false premise . |
| 19 | We did n't want to be too specific at the moment . |
| 20 | well that 's what I said to you , but we did n't want to er visit again this weekend did we ? , with last weekend |
| 21 | er because er her children but erm say that we we did n't want to sort of upset her by erm you know |
| 22 | we did n't go to school after all , is n't it ? |
| 23 | Good job we did n't go to school after all , cos you 'd of run round in the playground , you 'd of been shattered ! oops , too late ! |
| 24 | Oh we did n't go to bingo . |
| 25 | this guy got absolutely marvellous but they were full of it and they said we just learned it we did n't , we did n't go to school or anything like that , we |
| 26 | Well we erm we did n't go to bed till did we ? |
| 27 | We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft . |
| 28 | ‘ But I told them if we could n't beat them without a boom , we did n't deserve to be in the finals . ’ |
| 29 | He did n't he did n't approve of it , so you , we did n't talk to your husband about it . |
| 30 | But I think we do as a council , support that Sports Centre very well at the moment , which we did n't expect to be doing . |