Example sentences of "and we [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , and we had to fork out fags for the water . |
| 2 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 3 | The only time I spoke to the cameras was when me and another woman were in the kitchen and we had to sort of make a conversation . |
| 4 | This is one of the problems under which the law labours , because of course , if we did n't accept that it 's individual guilt that counts , and we looked to group guilt , then that in itself is an infringement of civil liberties and human rights , you are being judged not according to your acts but according to the acts of others erm with whom you happened to associate , even though your conduct may not in itself be reprehensible . |
| 5 | So far so good : and we drank to Toby 's usual cry of ‘ up she goes ’ . |
| 6 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |
| 7 | Our visit had taken a long time and we returned to Skeldale House for lunch . |
| 8 | John came around to my flat after work one day , one thing led to another and we went to bed together . |
| 9 | and we went to bed anyway |
| 10 | Oh , the night before me and we went to bed , had a lovely night and then last night we could n't last . |
| 11 | Well he 's not had a holiday since our Craig was thirteen months old and we went to Ibiza |
| 12 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 13 | And er I joined this territorials they come and then I joined them , and we went to Camp Parkgate for a fortnight . |
| 14 | I had Heather in the Moses basket , and we went to Baker Street via Elstree . |
| 15 | At twenty five minutes to twelve the bell went and we went to French . |
| 16 | On my honeymoon , we were there and we went to Les Deux Soeurs : run by two sisters ? |
| 17 | And we went to restaurants and theatres in the evenings . |
| 18 | And we went to Frinton of all places and you could go to the chippie and get fish and chips and everything . |
| 19 | That was until I met this fellow Johnson and we went to Kyrle Hall . |
| 20 | My sisters dressed me up in their dresses and paraded me down the road and we listened to Van and I learned to love Van . |
| 21 | ‘ I left on Monday morning from Amsterdam , where I met my brother and his girlfriend , and we continued to Miami , and from Miami to St Maarten , from St Maarten to Anguilla where we arrived in the middle of the night . |
| 22 | We flew also to France ( Epernay ) which was one of our bomber airfields and we operated to places like Prague . |
| 23 | Life has perked up a bit since The Grange was sold and we moved to Brighton . |
| 24 | He landed a part in a high drama cop show called Bobby , the Assassin and Me , and we moved to Los Angeles . |
| 25 | I qualified in 1987 , and we moved to Newcastle in 1988 ( his career move ) . |