Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only half way back to Darlington that we realised we never had learned why Bobby Orton walked off against Burnhope . |
| 2 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |
| 3 | BRC was contacted and we found them somewhere to live and someone from their own country to look after them . |
| 4 | yeah we ate we right enjoyed it |
| 5 | When we were asleep , it had ceased to matter , but when we ate it still remained a bore . |
| 6 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 7 | We heard him quietly talking to them , then a gun being cocked and a loud pop , followed by a moan . |
| 8 | She must have been upstairs because almost as if in answer to him we heard her heavy tread on the stairs . |
| 9 | Next we visited a grain processing mill , a hospital where they proudly displayed their own X-ray machine , a chicken-incubating factory , and a fish farm , where we watched them ingeniously catching fish with an enormous net stretched right across the fish-pool . |
| 10 | We watched it once did n't we ? |
| 11 | John : ‘ When we started we just wrote Fall songs all the time . ’ |
| 12 | We do n't know why it was this little sort of dip , that reproduces you know , the configuration of it but why it was there , we do n't know , we thought we better put it back since it was there . |
| 13 | We thought it right to publish the memorandum to help the House understand the background to the instrument . |
| 14 | I was sent out here because we thought you probably spoke English . |
| 15 | ‘ To think we thought he only worked part-time , ’ Nina was saying as Rachel came into the room . |
| 16 | We felt it right to accept the inevitable costs at this stage in the economic cycle and not to cut back on long-term plans that will strengthen the economy . |
| 17 | This road we also notice leads from King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] as a back entrance to Professor Coleman 's residence and garden , and to his stable , coach-house and kennel for his dogs — which , however , we understood he rarely used except in the shooting season . |
| 18 | At that point we knew we probably had the makings of a hit . |
| 19 | It was always exciting — and we knew it never meant anything . |
| 20 | We knew it never got submerged by the tide and our idea was to take some photographs of a full moon rising over Widemouth . |
| 21 | This was truly paradise ; it had to be savoured as we knew it short lived . |
| 22 | The best time to visit is in stormy conditions when the birds are on the wing , but the day we went was calm and we saw them only sitting on their nests . |
| 23 | " But we saw you today talking with the boatmen on their boats . " |
| 24 | the only thing in a tent is that , you 've got somewhere to lock your money up , in it ? , your passport and that , although when we went we just left our passports and money in the tent , but I would n't do that now |
| 25 | No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege . |
| 26 | Cos we said you never get a golliwog and we saw one and we |
| 27 | We left her there to die . |
| 28 | We had we certainly had lemon chicken stuffed mushrooms , |
| 29 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |