Example sentences of "[vb base] we [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sow cray we called it C R A Y a cray . |
| 2 | thing early in the week out with him and he did n't know how to operate it , so half the tapes , I mean we checked them because he 's he 's got ta write down who is speaking on on those tapes |
| 3 | And erm I mean we towed it over a thousand miles so the |
| 4 | Though it would be a case of finding someone else to go off with and not just sort of like , I mean we mentioned it years ago . |
| 5 | I mean we did you know stuff like erm er what 's the one I did ? |
| 6 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 7 | You needed sunglasses to go in it , erm oh you did n't really actually it looked , it looked alright but it was very modern , my mum and dad did n't think it was up to much you know we thought it was great . |
| 8 | I think this is one of the chairman because there was so many horrendous forecasts in the summer and autumn about the S S A that when it was announced you know we thought it was goods news and of course it was n't , erm so this is why they 're trying to be prudent and we have kept in our proposals to the erm , has already mentioned that er , thank god , the er democratic growth has been covered this year and so on , erm , plenty of other things that we would like to see erm to comply with the government 's own legislation erm but they where with all . |
| 9 | Look I know we said we would n't talk about it and maybe it 's not fair cos I do n't know what state you 'll be in when you get this , but why do n't we just move to the country and have babies ? |
| 10 | And that 's how it started and it was really just you know we said we 'd do a bit of fund raising and I think the men were pretty sceptical of you know they thi they thought we might fight over the first tin of beans or whatever . |
| 11 | I know we said it so many times in Seville but even then there was that feeling it was so unreal . |
| 12 | You know we had we had field postcards in all them days . |
| 13 | You know we had it once a month and they really wanted this kind of support and help and er for the ch children to have a christian foundation . |
| 14 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 15 | Not to , I know we saw it the other night did n't we ? |
| 16 | to , to , to a meeting for the group for next year , you know , she 's gon na say well you know we tried it and nobody came |
| 17 | Was that had we and I know we mentioned it when we met last time , but was that really we 're including in E O work with the unemployed . |
| 18 | Anyway , we know we pushed it through the you know |
| 19 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 20 | I remember we cleaned it all up , and it was right on the boundary wall between property and . |
| 21 | The tea tastes like we got it heated up again because no one would drink it yesterday , and there 's no coffee at all . |
| 22 | I believe we lost them all the moment he began lying to me — which would have been about four hours after he first climbed into bed somewhere strange , with someone else . |
| 23 | ‘ I guess we saw it that way : I did for sure . |
| 24 | ‘ Yeah , on Master Of Puppets we dropped it down to D and live we took it down to C sharp . |
| 25 | ‘ I still think we failed him , ’ said Rachel to David when the meeting was over . |
| 26 | I think we surprised them . |
| 27 | But I think we blew it in a big way . |
| 28 | ‘ Most people think we wrote it anyway , ’ grins Bob . |
| 29 | Er I think we learnt it probably in different ways , we learnt it more parrot fashion than they do today . |
| 30 | We did not we think I think we thought it would be seen merely as a gesture . |