Example sentences of "[coord] we [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or we die from boredom . |
| 2 | Or we rely on fire . |
| 3 | Or we sat with Mum and watched television , braving her constant irritation and sighs of self-pity . |
| 4 | As in the UK , Christmas was slow to start , with sales at Hannas really taking off from mid-December — ‘ We had marvellous dry weather in the weekend prior to Christmas and we advertise on radio every year , which we find effective . ’ |
| 5 | And we cling to history as a series of salon pictures , conversation pieces whose participants we can easily reimagine back into life , when all the time it 's more like a multi-media collage , with paint applied by decorator 's roller rather than camel-hair brush . |
| 6 | Nobody seemed to mind the presence of Marius and myself , and we got into conversation with two Officers about the respective merits of the different Legion regiments . |
| 7 | Here hundreds of birds were wheeling and soaring and we realised with excitement that they were frigate birds . |
| 8 | And we learnt of course the minds of various other big heavy industries . |
| 9 | yo you know if we had problems we 'd each talk to them and we had of course , we had , we formed a resident association and we took our problems to the resident 's association and and we wo , you know , if we had problems which could be ironed out the man , general manager of the development corporation , Mr would come and listen to our complaints and we seemed , you know , we we got along very very well really for such a small place with nothing because the only shopping facilities were in the old town or we had to go to Epping or Bishop 's Stortford you see ? |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , and we had to fork out fags for the water . |
| 11 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 12 | The only time I spoke to the cameras was when me and another woman were in the kitchen and we had to sort of make a conversation . |
| 13 | Because er I knew the area very well , I was er we had two committees which were composed of two counties , we had the Priory Committee th that was a home at Selkirk , a children 's home , and we had in cooperation with Berwickshire , Berwickshire and Selkirkshire were the owners of the Priory children 's home . |
| 14 | And we go to agility with her . |
| 15 | I thought he might go , he might do it now and we go for coffee . |
| 16 | The only thing that changes is our bodily condition , soul comes into the body and we go from birth to death , and how I look at it is that death is like taking your suit off . |
| 17 | Relationships , similar figures , now we we looked at that , and we looked at scale , erm , and I think last time we were looking at things like though , not too long ago we were looking at price of council paper and this sort of stuff , which one shall we buy ? |
| 18 | This is one of the problems under which the law labours , because of course , if we did n't accept that it 's individual guilt that counts , and we looked to group guilt , then that in itself is an infringement of civil liberties and human rights , you are being judged not according to your acts but according to the acts of others erm with whom you happened to associate , even though your conduct may not in itself be reprehensible . |
| 19 | House of Fraser shares were highly sensitive to any rumours of a bid , and we waited with caution and anxiety for the green light from the ministry . |
| 20 | Our breaking-in weeks were nearly over and we waited for news of posting to Initial Training Wing . |
| 21 | Mum picked up hers as well and we drank in silence . |
| 22 | Russian tanks were in Hungary in 1956 and we prayed at school for the dying , who were not Russian . |
| 23 | And we tend to maths numbers . |
| 24 | We all these figures are discussed and we take into account the previous three years . |
| 25 | And we take into account what we know about product up coming which is n't always a lot . |
| 26 | But after a while straight pieces of knitting cease to be satisfying and we progress to shaping , which speeds up the making-up process and also saves on materials . |
| 27 | Can I conclude on Harrogate then and we adjourn for tea until three thirty . |
| 28 | And we kept of course they carried er safety lamp to test for g er for any gas at all . |
| 29 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 30 | At 8am we were passing through Jericho as the local children were heading for school and we came under attack from youths throwing large stones . |