Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 2 | And when when he gets to know us a bit better we got quite a welcome tonight . |
| 3 | oh well , we ca n't very well be whether Julie said she liked boys to go out with her , go , and we provisionally booked , I think it was the last week in February , we got quite a bit on , I said er if I ca n't make it I 'll ring you , but then , oh that was it she rung me up , and she said Lynnie |
| 4 | We got , we got quite a lot of meat |
| 5 | Between Silver and myself , we got together a crew of the toughest seamen you can imagine . |
| 6 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 7 | We got together a group of important dealers and they all came over and testified , and the gallery owner said the artist was lying , but in the end the show was closed and the gallery closed . |
| 8 | We got there a quarter of an hour early , around nine in the morning . |
| 9 | I even made sure we got there an hour early in order to take everything in . |
| 10 | ‘ We began filming at 7.00am at the Bryman Airways check in. was shouting directions and the cameraman and soundman were fretting over which positions were best — we drew quite a crowd . |
| 11 | And er we , we did erm we , we started making er bench models because we found quite a lot of these had been made in Germany . |
| 12 | Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools . |
| 13 | We stopped briefly a couple of times , presumably for checkpoints and , as on other occasions , the driver would sometimes get out and speak to the people manning them . |
| 14 | We learnt quite a bit . |
| 15 | We noticed now a trail of well-trodden snow winding back towards the shore , obviously a route known to be safe by the experienced locals . |
| 16 | During our journey we noticed quite a lot of work being done on several station platforms . |
| 17 | The Swiss underestimated the Scots mentality when we played there a year ago . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm thinking , ’ Johnny Dee raised his glass and took thinking sips , ‘ perhaps we acted just a tad rashly . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Gros , 57 , said : ‘ We spent over an hour trying to revive one , but it was too late . ’ |
| 20 | When we set Headline up we spent nearly a year before publishing our first full list putting in place the systems that would allow the company to expand . |
| 21 | So again in London we spent nearly a week setting up the microphones and rehearsing . |
| 22 | Yes , we spent quite a lot of time alone together , started going to bed and all that , and yes we were sensible enough to know that even when you 're falling in love you should n't live entirely in one another 's pockets . |
| 23 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 24 | We seemed to get on awfully well on the court , and we laughed together a lot during the game . |
| 25 | At the end of the day though , the championship I think , tells you who is the best team of any one year and erm that 's the professional 's choice I think , if you said at the start of the year which = trophy we 'd like to win , we would have said the championship , erm we were top I think after two games and we fell away a bit since but erm the time to be tops after twenty two , so lets hope we can get up there . |
| 26 | We saw probably a total of 24 different young men from a professional model agency . |
| 27 | Approaching the village hall we saw quite a crowd outside , and while we waited more and more people joined us . |
| 28 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 29 | We 've never been in the same class or anything , but we saw quite a lot of each other in the Christmas concert last year and then , well , it sort of started with that . " |
| 30 | ‘ Live , we did a couple of things from ‘ Genesis To Revelation ’ and we did quite a lot of very gentle acoustic things which did n't last . |