Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would n't have been passing the church except that we called in to collect Maggie Sullivan and it 's a shortcut from her place to the Feathers . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We started out asking questions that were being asked all over , ’ she says . |
| 3 | THE following morning we trooped up to watch Kneeton Park 's continued , currently clarty , climb up the Hambleton Combination , third division . |
| 4 | ‘ And you remember that rotten fence we kept on breaking pieces off the top of . ’ |
| 5 | Before that , though , we went round asking people to sponsor us . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 7 | And we went on writing poems , in that luxuriant air of mingled spirituality and sexual anguish . |
| 8 | We went in to see Jennie before we left . |
| 9 | Then , after the party we went along to see Man at The Lyceum . |
| 10 | We looked down to see goldfinches and snow buntings feasting on fallen seeds in the heaped litter of salt marsh plants : sea lavender and sea purslane . |
| 11 | We gave up expecting GLF to solve our problems because we could see that it was essentially a movement built around the freedom to choose and practise your own sexuality . |
| 12 | He did n't want to produce and I did n't want to produce , so we ended up writing songs and making the record together . ’ |
| 13 | We ended up trading memories of Paris in the fifties and England before the war . |
| 14 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |