Example sentences of "we [vb past] [conj] we [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We failed because we did not raise people 's hopes sufficiently . |
| 2 | Aye er and er I got to the now on the and steamers go so far up , past Le Havre at the mouth Le Havre we disembarked when we went out to France first time and we took guns and all sorts . |
| 3 | We got what we deserved because we batted awfully . ’ |
| 4 | In the unchanging landscape we drove but we did n't get anywhere . |
| 5 | that we had from the day we opened and we 've never found them ! |
| 6 | We talked as we went along , but Jane 's conversation became increasingly vague and absent-minded as she concentrated on the work in hand . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't forget to be at the meeting tomorrow then , ’ we prompted as we trod carefully on the clumps of dry grass as if they were stepping-stones . |
| 8 | ‘ We started because we had so many enquiries about holiday courses , and it has been a tremendous success , ’ says Angela Payne , deputy director of the college . |
| 9 | Then we decided that we 'd better get back . |
| 10 | ‘ When we heard that some might be communists we decided that we did n't have to take any notice of them anyway . |
| 11 | we decided that we did n't need to change the application I suggested that . |
| 12 | So We managed and we opened up see how quick they came . |
| 13 | If we knew that we do n't need them . |
| 14 | We knew what we were looking for and we knew if we looked long enough and hard enough we would find it , but there were times when we thought perhaps it is n't out there . |
| 15 | Guess what we saw when we looked in at their sitting-room window ? |
| 16 | There appeared to be some problem with our papers regarding the tonnage we were hauling until a 20DM note was produced and we insisted that we did not require a receipt . |
| 17 | But er , we went and we travelled overland , spent |
| 18 | We won and we won fair and square . |
| 19 | ‘ We just could n't find a lot of music we liked when we started so we just thought ‘ let's try and make something we like , ’ ’ says Ed . |
| 20 | But w as I said we did because we did n't have a pig . |
| 21 | I think it would be better 'cos in fact , sub-contractors to an outside person , to you sub-contracting meant absolutely everything that we bought that we did n't er , provide ourselves , did n't it . |
| 22 | We hoped that we did n't have no we had electric valve er central heating but we have very old central heating . |
| 23 | and the , the one that we had before we came here |
| 24 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 25 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |