Example sentences of "and we [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 2 | I get into step with him and we stop at a door at the end of the corridor . |
| 3 | We mourn the loss of the person who died and we respond to the change that this effects in our lives with panic or elation or anxiety or a whole gamut of emotions that may take us by surprise . |
| 4 | We are constantly approached by people who want our help , and we respond in the best way we can . |
| 5 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 6 | And we walk in the lounge and they 've got two foot round copper covered tables , they 'd covered the original with sheet and the the there was only us two and he was polishing them , you know , getting them ready |
| 7 | So the suit so the suit the briefcase rather , does have an effective purpose So let's say we have n't gone into there and we go into the study he sits there , where would you put yourself there ? |
| 8 | And if we win this game we 're into , promoted , and we go into the league then that is a very good standard . |
| 9 | 'Cause sometimes I meet 'em afterwards and we go to the coffee-bar . ’ |
| 10 | And we go to the Mediterranean and North Africa . |
| 11 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 12 | So in fact , we could have caused chaos on Oxpens Road by parking the bus on double yellow lines and making a big thing of getting handicapped children out , in and out of a specialised vehicle , but we , we actually prefer not to do that , and we go on the car park each week , and we pay the same fee as anybody else fee , pays because er we feel that that 's the right and proper place for us to be and the children to be , as they 're just ordinary members of the community with some special needs . |
| 13 | They would fill the tanker from there and we go round the quarry filling the front machines , but erm they say at five or six thousand gallons has been emptied out of that er dump . |
| 14 | Well British Gas are our main sponsors and we go round the country and we do erm courses , free courses for two hundred youngsters in various parts of mainland Britain , and erm we 're coming to Oxford . |
| 15 | Now it happens all the time , and there is absolutely no way at all with the best will in the world , and I 'm sure that we all mean it , that we get on the phones at nine o'clock , and we get on the phones at eleven o'clock , you just do n't work like that . |
| 16 | er listen , you start at one and we get to a hundred and four |
| 17 | But for the thousandth time I do n't do anything and we get to the bathroom safely . |
| 18 | we use erm a rake or a and we draw across the seeds and that 'll ra , bring out the weeds . |
| 19 | I know it 's not your fault , but you come here and we chat about the family , I say too much and , suddenly , we 're talking about murder ! ’ |
| 20 | So I brought it to Gary Brawer , the San Francisco luthier who does a lot of my setup work and he filled it up — took out the springs and the bar and filled it all up with ash and we put in a regular DiMarzio stop tailpiece , with through-the-body strings . |
| 21 | And we put in a report to the county council in the morning saying there was a fire . |
| 22 | " It has been dinned into the ears of our members without hesitation or scruple , and we repeat with the greatest force at our command that seamen , to whatever class they may belong , are false to themselves , to their cause and to their country in taking any course that may , even in the smallest degree , weaken the hands of those responsible for the conduct of the present campaign against the most ignoble foe that it has ever become Britain 's duty to tackle " . |
| 23 | We do n't see much of them in the daytime , but at night the bedbugs crawl out from under our mats , and we listen to the cockroaches munching away merrily in the food-basket between our heads , and to the brittle scrabbling of their feet on the ceiling a couple of feet above us . |
| 24 | But if the music changes , our attention is immediately alerted , and we listen to the new message with pleasure . |
| 25 | In P1/T2 this means and we pivot in the x 1 -column ( and x 2 -row by the PRS rule ) to get P1/T5 . |
| 26 | And we stay in the same place ! |
| 27 | We had agreed not to talk about fitting-out problems and we lay in the sun drinking from the bottle Iain had humped up in his backpack . |
| 28 | And we si and we sing it upstairs and she goes wandering up the stairs and we hide in the airing cupboard ! |
| 29 | Bailey gives me instant coffee and a plate of Tesco jam doughnuts , still in their plastic packet , and we sit at a dusty picnic table outside , slapping off flies . |
| 30 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |