Example sentences of "and we [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
| 2 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 4 | And then you left us alone and we nearly died in the cold ! |
| 5 | As the dim outline of a beach was beginning to show , three huge heads broke the surface ahead of us and we nearly ran into three walrus . |
| 6 | 'E 'd come running from the back garden and we nearly bumped into each other coming round the corner of the 'ouse . |
| 7 | We broke nuts and bones with rocks , and we even fished for termites with sticks , the way chimps do . ’ |
| 8 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 9 | Can we in the alternative put our case if that is a fait accompli then there must be something for the local communities to be derived from this and therefore we went for protection under one O six agreement as Stewart quite rightly refers to and we also went for the dedication of large areas of the resultant heap for landscaping and for public open space . |
| 10 | In Chapter 3 we looked at the ‘ politics of variation ’ in a general sense : we asked why feminists would want to study male/female differences in language , and we also looked at the anecdotal tradition of ( often sexist ) comment feminists in the field have inherited — in some cases rather uncritically . |
| 11 | and we also looked at acid and carbonate . |
| 12 | I 've been using a Strat on and off for about five years , and we also hired in Telecasters , Rickenbacker 12-strings , all kinds of stuff . |
| 13 | Having done that we then talked about the problem that we all have on these sorts of occasions which is the problem of nerves and we talked about the symptoms of dry voice and the shaking limbs the the wonky voice and the reasons why we have er these nerves and we also talked about the causes of the the primitive instinct of fight or flight er how we get get our body ready to handle this unusual situation . |
| 14 | And we also talked about maybe you could say , erm , you know , if you continue to do a job , maybe we 'll look you know , at developing you further , but it 's all sort of , pretty similar sort of things you 're going to say to him in that situation . |
| 15 | There was no lovelier place to be in fine weather , and we also rejoiced in the rain , because rain equalled kilowatts . |
| 16 | And we also did in those old days , pre-war , a big garden trade . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch . |
| 18 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 19 | When the jet came up from nowhere it left a space devoid of air and we just dropped into it . ’ |
| 20 | And we just went through them , the same procedure as it is for all our policies , which is eight point two , five , growth percent . |
| 21 | Yeah , well we 'll take erm Michael gave us say erm a , an assembly sheet did n't he and we just read from that , and that got a lot of interest from that . |
| 22 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 23 | We had a mutual friend , an old lady , and we frequently met through her . |
| 24 | ‘ And the clouds came down , and we lost the path , and we almost walked over the top of a thousand-metre cliff , and … ’ |
| 25 | And we once went to Scotland , then breakfast in it , when Pauline was with us did n't , were n't it John ? |
| 26 | But er she managed somehow you know but she was like that my mother 'd manage anyth any illness at all and we never worried about that . |
| 27 | We never heard any grumbling , everyone ate everything and we never heard of any health problems ( if there were any ) ; it was totally refreshing for all to be themselves and be accepted as they were . |
| 28 | And we never heard from it again . |
| 29 | ‘ We stirred it up , yes , but we never lost any money for anybody and we never added to the unemployment figures . ’ |
| 30 | At the meeting I reported on the position of the gathering health service dispute and we then looked at a number of other pay issues . |