Example sentences of "[vb past] we [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 2 | But oh we we 'd we 'd a lot of good fiddlers in those days and a girl at the piano . |
| 3 | Then she noticed we had a child with us in a pushchair . |
| 4 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 5 | D ye know I forgot we had a telephone ! |
| 6 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
| 7 | ‘ We decided we needed a bed , an exercise bike , a small set of drawers and a clothes cupboard , ’ said Victoria . |
| 8 | We decided we needed a microwave . |
| 9 | Although we did not appear to have a direct hit in any vital part ( and the engines were spared ) as soon as we dropped our bombs , and the photo-flash meant we had a picture of where we had left our load , we turned for home . |
| 10 | I said to Chris I felt we had a bit more money and could do better than that . |
| 11 | Despite the result on Saturday you still felt we had a lot to do . |
| 12 | I suddenly felt we had a lot in common and maybe I 'd misjudged him . |
| 13 | We , we felt we had a lot of talking to do . |
| 14 | We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters . |
| 15 | ‘ Once we knew we had a daughter someplace out there , what could we do but try to find her ? ’ they said . |
| 16 | ‘ I was n't worried as soon as I knew we had a home draw . |
| 17 | Should have been a goal , but everyone knew we had a game . |
| 18 | Then , we thought we heard a noise in the wardrobe in his dressing-room . |
| 19 | " I thought we had a stalemate . " |
| 20 | ( We thought we had a budgie in the office one day — whistles constantly ! ) . |
| 21 | No I think we still thought we had a chance . |
| 22 | We always thought we had a chance if we played well . ’ |
| 23 | We always thought we had a chance if we played well . ’ |
| 24 | He thought we had a lot to learn from that and it would encourage them … |
| 25 | I thought we had a deal . ’ |
| 26 | I thought we had a deal . |
| 27 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 28 | We stayed in a few bed and breakfasts when we thought we needed a wash , and a few youth hostels . |
| 29 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 30 | And I said , yes , I said , and I said we bought we bought a pack of each . |