Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She says , ‘ Last time we met you had a key . ’ |
2 | From the first moment we met you wove a spell that has bound me to you more securely than chains could ever do . ’ |
3 | Well er we got we got the use of er er of rifles , you know , there were n't many , because they were wanted er they were wanted at the er front . |
4 | No we got we got an oilskin coat and a pair of rubber boots . |
5 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
6 | ‘ But when we came we had the fireplace taken out . |
7 | But oh we we 'd we 'd a lot of good fiddlers in those days and a girl at the piano . |
8 | We booked a table in a restaurant for our office Christmas party but when we arrived they had no record of the booking we made . |
9 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
10 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
11 | ‘ We decided we needed a bed , an exercise bike , a small set of drawers and a clothes cupboard , ’ said Victoria . |
12 | We decided we needed a microwave . |
13 | ( We thought we had a budgie in the office one day — whistles constantly ! ) . |
14 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
15 | It was a sad and disillusioning blow for 261 Squadron , as John Pain relates : ‘ This was the one day when we thought we had the edge . |
16 | Then , we thought we heard a noise in the wardrobe in his dressing-room . |
17 | We stayed in a few bed and breakfasts when we thought we needed a wash , and a few youth hostels . |
18 | We thought it indicated a youngster . ’ |
19 | We thought you looked a bit out of sorts . ’ |
20 | We thought he had a weakness for us and our Empire . |
21 | We brought him to Lingfield last week and he went so well on the sand , we thought he had a chance today , ’ said the trainer . |
22 | From your first message we gathered you saw the plane crash into the sea but could n't identify it . |
23 | We felt we deserved the advantage . |
24 | We , we felt we had a lot of talking to do . |
25 | A wonderful pale gold colour we felt it tasted a bit like a dry sherry . |
26 | ‘ Once we knew we had a daughter someplace out there , what could we do but try to find her ? ’ they said . |
27 | We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters . |
28 | ‘ A lot of crews can try and win outright , but we knew we had the boat speed to move it through , ’ she said . |
29 | I wish we knew what caused the fire . ’ |
30 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |