Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But when we got married and I had two children he did n't want me to work any more , and he got very jealous of other men looking at me . |
| 2 | Less than a year later we got married and I moved down here and eventually found myself a job . |
| 3 | Did we talk about where we 'd been and what we 'd done , what we 'd seen and what had happened ? |
| 4 | I was very very pleased to see that a lot of you have tried to do your join up handwriting after a bit of practice we 'd had and it had come out really really nicely , well done . |
| 5 | But we started to chat and I thought that , in spite of the rotten conditions , there might be some fun in it after all . |
| 6 | So we did suggest and I did believe your party to support erm , a process where we did consult with local people but we also took other factors into consideration . |
| 7 | We can not sell the property in Kent to Mr Cooper as we had hoped and I fear that unless I go down there myself the business will languish . |
| 8 | Fleischmann replied that with hindsight that might be true but ‘ in the situation we were then in , we were obliged to tell the university of the work that we had done and they perceived that they were obliged to go for patent protection at that time . |
| 9 | Perhaps the toner fluid intoxicated her — there were over a hundred sheets to copy — or maybe it was the lack of air in the photocopying room , but after we had done and she had commented favourably on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the notes , she asked me to go out with her . |
| 10 | That was one night after we had stopped and I stayed on and me and the assistant engineer just hooked that up together . |
| 11 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 12 | Luckily he had been one of those we had briefed and he remembered the name . |
| 13 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 14 | ‘ The Americans asked us if we wanted to come and we said , S'pose so , ’ grinds the aptly named bass player Martin Blunt , unravelling his gnarled fingers from their intertwined tense bundle . |
| 15 | ‘ The Americans asked us if we wanted to come and we said , S'pose so , ’ grinds the aptly named bass player Martin Blunt , unravelling his gnarled fingers from their intertwined tense bundle . |