Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] we [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for the City 's surveyors department said : ‘ There was an element of confusion after the blast because the Chamber of Shipping building had partially collapsed and we thought there might be similar damage to the Baltic . |
| 2 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
| 3 | Yes , but very restricted erm in other words if you look at the history of Kuwait for the time that we received or we got our independence , we had to start our nationalisation process as an independent country . |
| 4 | ‘ We could say we were passing and we saw something suspicious , so no , that wo n't do . ’ |
| 5 | And they entertained us and then some carol singers came and we asked them in and they sang carols and the food was nice and everybody really was very happy and that was the start of our Christmas holiday . |
| 6 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 7 | ‘ There was a year of negotiation before the deal was closed and we refused their persistent demands to increase our offer of £750,000 , ’ Muddle says . |
| 8 | An enamel pot arrived and we dipped our fingers in the sweet , gelatinous stuff . |
| 9 | BRC was contacted and we found them somewhere to live and someone from their own country to look after them . |
| 10 | Now of course what happened is that we claimed , we w went to the insurance and then they took they got a list of what was damaged and we replaced it for what he 'd lost er exactly . |
| 11 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
| 12 | Kost said to Buchman , ‘ In Hitler 's time , he told us what to do and we did it . |
| 13 | Servants were called , torches and lamps brought and we began our search . |
| 14 | We saw it coming and we did nothing . ’ |
| 15 | The light dimmed and we bumped something hard . |
| 16 | I would think that 's a chance we took and we lost it |
| 17 | Oh very good , yes , aha , so er Jim 's been very busy with his talks and different things and er we packed in , you know , after Christmas cos we both worked and we thought we 'd have it , you know , and we caught this flu bug and |
| 18 | So the seamen stopped fighting and we took their guns . |
| 19 | And the police come and we handed everything over to them . |
| 20 | So I said oh well , I said er if you we really want to get the nitty-gritties I said you know we did n't receive a Christmas card from you I said but we sent them to you . |
| 21 | It 's one of the longest-running fights we have and we thought we were winning and we got lazy . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah they 're all nice nice girls you know this is like the other week we was here playing the other team and one of the other team was swearing you know , and particularly you know the girls in , might have not they have the they used to play for Black Bear and you know the that lady that 's up there , she still swears and we stopped her from here used to f this , f that and f the other , we did , we stopped her said if you ca n't find a better word than that to use I should n't bother , you know As you know Shirl do n't like that . |