Example sentences of "we [vb past] [to-vb] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See we er we tried to get and it was about ten to twelve so I thought , I thought Carole was n't coming till the next bus so I 'd go down and pick her up . |
| 2 | But we started to chat and I thought that , in spite of the rotten conditions , there might be some fun in it after all . |
| 3 | Other income came from the calves we had to spare and everyone would lose quite a bit of sleep when the cows were calving since the event would invariably happen in the middle of the night and it was often necessary to play midwife in case of complications . |
| 4 | We had to make and we used to have to take this milk , I used to take it about five o'clock in the morning . |
| 5 | But the war against inflation was one we had to fight and one we had to win . |
| 6 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 7 | ‘ The Americans asked us if we wanted to come and we said , S'pose so , ’ grinds the aptly named bass player Martin Blunt , unravelling his gnarled fingers from their intertwined tense bundle . |
| 8 | ‘ The Americans asked us if we wanted to come and we said , S'pose so , ’ grinds the aptly named bass player Martin Blunt , unravelling his gnarled fingers from their intertwined tense bundle . |