Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good deal has happened since that important Church meeting last June when we agreed to go ahead and purchase the building from the Church of Scotland for £1 . |
| 2 | The boys , being the largest , managed to grab them , while we got pushed further and further to the front , nearer to the teachers . |
| 3 | In order to keep the boys separate from the girls he used to draw a chalk line down the middle of our meeting room , and when we got carried away and crossed the line he would burst into a ferocious rage , pick up anything that was to hand — usually a book — and throw it at the offender , who had to duck fast in order not to be hit . |
| 4 | ‘ Brentford gave us a terrific battle but we deserved to win even though we missed chances . |
| 5 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 6 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |
| 7 | They used to be sent to London and various places ; and when we 'd done all that we got four shillings a hundred for them . |
| 8 | and erm , we 'd got there and a young lady came along delivering milk you know with a big milk float and she put the , the twins Brenda and |
| 9 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 10 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 11 | And here , we began to wonder aloud if it would n't be preferable , in the long term interests of America 's domestic car makers , to leave the planned invasion of Europe to MPVs , luxury cars and convertibles . |
| 12 | ‘ We began to drift apart when we were posted to different ships . |
| 13 | We needed to go faster so we left him in a field , alive or dead . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is not surprising that , without exception , the professionals to whom we talked stated emphatically that their overriding concern was to act in the interests of their child clients . |
| 15 | Oh , we 'd felt like this for years but we would n't acknowledge it , and then we started meeting casually and standing talking for ages , but it was only when I met him and he was so upset about the baby and — and other things . |
| 16 | After we had read about these things several times over we started wondering again if there would be any soup . |
| 17 | But people worried about blowing their minds with cellular radiation may not have to worry too much longer — James Plante , head of Dynaspek Inc of Westmont , Illinois says he plans to market a copper alloy shield that fixes to the antenna and protects users from radiation : ‘ I conceived this back in 1985 , but when all the media hype came out , we decided to go ahead and produce it , ’ said Plante of his Cell Shield , a several-inch long semi-circular metal sheet resembling a shoe-horn ; it will be $30 . |
| 18 | Yes we kept going there when yeah . |
| 19 | We had decided earlier that our idea of investigating the old rope-worked inclines above Nant Gwernol would not be practical with a mixed party including some elderly members . |
| 20 | ‘ We had to move home because I could n't bear to pass his school which was beside our house in Well Street , ’ said Joan . |
| 21 | As I sipped the remainder of my beer I reflected on the years that had past , the paddling trips we had done together and all the good times . |
| 22 | And Spurs coach Doug Livermore added : ‘ It is sickening to think we had done enough and then had to leave with nothing . |
| 23 | We had to pause awhile as the body of a suicide , dragged by the feet , was taken by city bailiffs to be dumped in the city ditch . |
| 24 | Er and then when the Second World War started er we , we had to leave there and come down to the er sh to the sh shop really . |
| 25 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 26 | Actually , I had n't played with Craig on the North American tour but we had trained together and he is such a very good player , and , of course , in playing district and other representative rugby you just have to fit in with different stand-offs . |
| 27 | I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation . |
| 28 | ‘ We summoned the sorcerers , and we sat long nights in Council , for we knew that we dare not wait until it was time for the Ritual of the Beastline to take place ; we had to know long before that if the birth of twins into the Royal House had truly damaged the Enchantment . |
| 29 | They discovered the olive oil we had left behind and they took all our olive oil machines . |
| 30 | We walked out and staggered back to our beds , pushing out the dummies we had left there as decoys , using rolled up overcoats and our pyjamas . |