Example sentences of "[vb past] we [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to do a lot of testing with Precisions but we found we just could n't hear the differences between different strings ; Music Mans seem to almost accentuate the differences , which is what we want . |
| 2 | And we found we just were were wasting our time . |
| 3 | The actor Paul Blake and his wife Kate , who are friends of ours , have two young daughters and Abi and I found we really enjoyed their company . |
| 4 | When this occurred we usually dived into the nearest tenement to hide . |
| 5 | Faced with the threat it posed we somehow managed to break free of the old categories . |
| 6 | Er , well Ray let us in on a little oak table erm and forget to ring up to find out whether |
| 7 | He let us off he said you two are supposed to get a late mark but I 'll let you off this time three and we 've got a detention . |
| 8 | This is three elements out of about nine or ten , now if they could be persuaded that if people phoned us up and said blah blah blah I want to learn this we could say well Telford will let you do this one unit of the course , they learn the one unit of the course , they say right I 'd now like to learn about let's say photography and we find out that Queen Margaret 's College in their course have an element on photography so we point the student in that direction and then they do this hold on a second |
| 9 | Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but |
| 10 | It was a load lifted from the heart , a load we had not even known weighed us down . |
| 11 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 12 | As we dozed off , we heard the sound of approaching footsteps and voices , which jerked us quickly back to life . |
| 13 | The Lady Mayoress and I were honoured to have y have the pleasure of your company when you visited us recently . |
| 14 | Backing up Bedu admirably were Rita and Jean , who worked hard and paced us well , so that we could still walk after hours of exercise . |
| 15 | He punished us before , why not now ! |
| 16 | We seated ourselves and he regarded us expectantly , so I opened with , ‘ Can you tell me all about lymphomas and can I see a lymph node ? ’ |
| 17 | But our complicity in taking those dreadful little uppers , of which I thoroughly disapproved , as I do of all narcotic stimulants , drew us closer together , so I submitted to their influence . |
| 18 | We were a besieged party in a hostile camp , and it drew us together . |
| 19 | Except at the beginning , when the eccentric lord immediately clashed with Johnson , even though Johnson says that the magnetism of Lord Monboddo 's conversation ‘ easily drew us out of our way , and the entertainment which we received would have been a sufficient recompense for a much greater deviation ’ . |
| 20 | The captain invited us brusquely to sit on a bench before the table and hurried out of a side door . |
| 21 | He even invited us round to the house one night , to give me a loan of a book on the Gothic Imagination . |
| 22 | The teacher invited us round to his cottage one evening for dinner and to talk about releasing owls into the wild , which we had just started doing around that time ( I 'll tell you more about that later ) . |
| 23 | Pat 's son invited us round for dinner , I never thought so say you know ! |
| 24 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
| 25 | Oh , yes , he invited us all right . |
| 26 | Yeah , she invited us all over at Christmas |
| 27 | And we used to er do a food run down and they used to come up and erm And then we went along to a to a lodge meeting th the men invited us along and I remember one of the comments back in September from one of the men was , Oh well I 'm gon na be nagged back to work soon . |
| 28 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 29 | Harry invited us back though , and told us , ‘ The crack was good , ’ and Graham just smiled . |
| 30 | The farmer 's wife invited us in and gave us cheesy , potato turnovers — it would not be polite to refuse . |