Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 2 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 3 | Do you know what would happen to us if we got caught with this stuff ? |
| 4 | ‘ Kelly , ’ I shouted and she turned round and shrieked , ‘ Annie , darling ’ , and we tried to fall into each other 's arms . |
| 5 | At first it all seemed so simple : the discussions , the unfolding of new ideas , the boundless energy we seemed to generate in each other , the solidarity we felt in working towards tearing down patriarchal structures and attitudes . |
| 6 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 7 | Manager Billy Sinclair said : ‘ We would have got into the match better if we 'd scored from that penalty . |
| 8 | It was the first time we 'd returned to any location and I thought it must be a good sign . |
| 9 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 10 | We 'd stuck by each other for about four or five years . ’ |
| 11 | If members would accept the additional resolution which stands in my name erm which reads this is what we 'd copied to all district councils and they would be made aware of the county council 's views on the matter . |
| 12 | I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out . |
| 13 | So far , this ’ — he pointed to the newspaper — ‘ is the only evidence we 'd found of such preparations , but if there are others they will be swiftly terminated by this Society and its agents . |
| 14 | At the time when we were at work , interest in what we did was widespread and encouraging because the area in which we were engaged and the questions we addressed seemed to many people important . |
| 15 | ‘ We began to work for this journey two years ago . |
| 16 | as if we would never have the time to say all the things we needed to say to each other . |
| 17 | ‘ For months we talked financing with these people . |
| 18 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 19 | We started shouting at each other . |
| 20 | We were both nervous wrecks and we started fighting with each other . ’ |
| 21 | Some good-condition coins were retrieved from one end of the heap , so we decided to concentrate in that area . |
| 22 | Because the definition of ‘ informal carer ’ can be so vague , we decided to focus on each person 's principal carer ( if there was one ) , defined on the objective criterion that he or she spent a minimum of seven hours per week ( on average one hour per day ) doing things with or on behalf of the dementia sufferer , rather than rely on the more subjective criterion of who appears to be most responsible for the sufferer . |
| 23 | In that time we managed to talk to many broadcasters , primarily European ( which reflects where we see our main market potential and the fact that MIPCOM did seem to have greater numbers of European broadcasters than from any other significant territory ) . |
| 24 | We had noticed the week before that er that we had some Penguin biscuits in and er really sort of we kept looking at these Penguins |
| 25 | Malcolm 's got us this singer , we kept saying to each other , and he ca n't sing , what is all this about ? |
| 26 | The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country . |
| 27 | After luncheon we went to look at some watercolours in which she is interested at Agnew 's , in Bond Street . |
| 28 | We did think about this point last night . |
| 29 | I , I , maybe before we start that , on the point of reductions , and I 'll ask both er , George and , and er , Jean and Mike to , to speak for the different political groups , as part of the P A G , erm , when we did go through this process , I , I mean it was very difficult for us as a P A G. |
| 30 | Erm if we actually look erm and I do n't know if we did introduce to all members Bryony who is my assistant and who works very largely on the programme with me and on the educational and events side , and is acting minute secretary while Judith is on maternity leave . |