Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It did n't seem to need any food , though we tried everything we thought it might like .
2 I told them we knew nothing . ’
3 Apparently he came to the office to get her telephone number and she told him we had them . ’
4 When we received it we thought it was great , but after chewing on them for a while , mum got a bit worried as the pieces we were chewing off looked like hard plastic .
5 We told anyone we thought we should have told what we had done .
6 Well he was as good as they come , as far as I was concerned , because if it could be had , swiped , stolen , midnight requisition or just purely ordered from some place , when we needed it we got it .
7 We persuaded them we needed it more than they did . ’
8 Robert Kent , owner of the six-year-old rottweilers — worth £1,000 — said : ‘ They did what we keep them to do .
9 Cos i if we said we we needed it in order to get some of this money
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