Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that week on The Gloria Hunniford Show we tried to explain what we 'd seen — and found ourselves , without prior consultation , wrestling each other to the ground and rolling all over each other . |
| 2 | I remember very distinctly the morning when my father came to tell us we had a new baby sister . |
| 3 | When I went to visit him we sat in his book-lined study surrounded by all the trappings of an academic career but in his garage there were untreated specimens and a range of specialist tools . |
| 4 | ‘ In the Dales we learned to hit what we aimed at . ’ |
| 5 | Bourdieu wished to retain what we have learnt from structural analysis , and yet to mitigate its objectivist implications by emphasizing that such structures produce not rules but dispositions , and underlie not determinacy but strategy . |
| 6 | And you had to make what we called straw . |
| 7 | David and I then had to tell him we did n't have any choice because at that time there were no other futuristic stories ready . |
| 8 | The next day was hungover and quiet ; everybody wanted to know what we had got up to , and Girod told us that we would not be accompanying the section in town that afternoon . |
| 9 | Erm it it could have been a problem if we 'd have both been so me materialistic that we wanted to keep everything we 'd got hold of you know . |
| 10 | But it , if if we wanted to change what we 've done already we we could at a certain stage have a level three , I mean I 've I 've ordered these books , you know mathematics level by level |
| 11 | Er no , Beveridge did , but he never intended to achieve what we 've got . |
| 12 | Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next . |