Example sentences of "we [vb past] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For a start , we got posted the very next day . |
| 2 | When my mother met , we were met you know when we got married the solicitor had us in because he wanted us to make a will because see we did n't take the money that we got from mum . |
| 3 | As well as being a mate of Yeti 's at school we worked together at Whiteleys , the department store in Queensway , on Thursday evenings after school and all day Saturday — for which we got paid the grand total of 36 shillings or £1.80 today . |
| 4 | When we 'd cleared the shop out and put the stuff in the fridge , I used to all , scrub all round all the ta you know , the shelves round the sides and clean the scale down and the bacon machine and I used to scrape the block with a proper scraper . |
| 5 | ‘ After Munich I thought we 'd saved the day . |
| 6 | This is our actual workload and this is what it would have happened if we 'd followed the M R C er protocols . |
| 7 | When we 'd checked the recording we 'd heard Sinatra singing ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 8 | What else is there to do in Kimblesworth , we 'd asked the taxi driver on the way from Durham railway station ? |
| 9 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
| 10 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 11 | We 'd heard the dogs ' barking spreading through the trees when they 'd first been unleashed . |
| 12 | We talked a bit more , about when we 'd heard the news , and so forth . |
| 13 | At least twice a week we 'd heard the sermons broadcast from a nearby mosque and were both sure that the preacher was Sheikh Fadlallah , one of the main spiritual leaders of Hezbollah . |
| 14 | ‘ We thought we 'd denied the wolves a good meal . |
| 15 | That low , dishonest decade was when we broke free of our parents , banished the Fifties , discovered that we 'd missed the Sixties , and tried to make the best of it with an orgy of revolting clothes , tasteless music and formless anomie . |
| 16 | I was beginning to think that we 'd missed the boat , even though we knew in our heart of hearts that the Lord wanted us in some form of full-time capacity . |
| 17 | I , I forgotten that it was Justine , I , it just threw me a bit that erm , erm , Nick asked me to let you know that we were here and that we 'd received the chairs . |
| 18 | As we 'd guessed the Jihad had nicked the negotiator . |
| 19 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
| 20 | It was late in the afternoon now , later than I thought it would be , and shadows were long on the grass before us , so that by the time we 'd travelled the leafy lane to Flanders Hall and had followed the road past the Grange to West Burton village green , it was early evening . |
| 21 | I go along with that one , and we 'd commandeered the scullery back of the kitchen to pollute our bodies with addictive anti-stress-related poison . |
| 22 | If we 'd blown the network because of the hostages we would have left ourselves blind in the middle of a minefield . |
| 23 | that we 'd completed the erm er the site work on . |
| 24 | We even had a hot line set up between the reception at London Weekend and Number 10 , and a call did come through , but thankfully it was after we 'd done the show , when she was having a drink in the hospitality room . |
| 25 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd done the Exhilarator course in the evening but we had n't found anything — except that Cawthorne does n't like women much , and blacks not at all . ’ |
| 27 | If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley . |
| 28 | That 's okay , if the premium was due on the first even though , if , if we 'd done the erm the recall before the status report runs it will show that as being in arrears ? |
| 29 | And we sort of walked round the town and back to where we 'd parked the car and there were there were places you know , pubs and cafes which are |
| 30 | What a relief we 'd won the war . |