Example sentences of "and [adv] we [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I took him into my home , it was an extremely costly thing to do , and eventually we got him into the Chiltern Clinic . |
| 2 | And eventually we got they were frightened you see , that the suction of the boats going down would pull the the water boat under . |
| 3 | She moved abroad but kept in touch and eventually we persuaded her to see a doctor . |
| 4 | In later years we borrowed Blossom , a big Clydesdale-type mare , from John Sayer at West New Houses , and eventually we bought her . |
| 5 | and eventually we bought it |
| 6 | Absolutely , it was absolutely fantastic and despite the rain , spectators enjoyed themselves and course designer Mike Etherington-Smith is a genius , and locally we had something to cheer us , you may have heard earlier . |
| 7 | From this , the idea was derived of ‘ patchwork pieces ’ , which then led to a demand for specific colours in the bags , ’ ‘ and suddenly we realized we had created a bit of a monster . ’ |
| 8 | One of the girls nicked some yeast from the kitchens and so we made our own homebrew — potent or what . |
| 9 | When we approached she took to the steep places where we could not follow , and so we left her . ’ |
| 10 | It was too early in the morning to get a reply from the transport company , and so we continued our ‘ chat ’ . |
| 11 | Mandeville said he would report the woman 's death when we returned to Templecombe and so we continued our cold journey through the bleak Somerset countryside . |
| 12 | and so we had our own homes , for the boys in Brighton when they were older and the girls at Hastings . |
| 13 | ‘ I had a dimple there , ’ the Senator had confessed with his engaging frankness , ‘ which my advisers determined made me look too baby-faced , and so we had it removed . ’ |
| 14 | 6 October , 1835 FELIX MENDELSSOHN writes to his family from Leipzig : ‘ The day after I accompanied the Hensels to Delitzsch , Chopin arrived here ; he would not stay more than a day , and so we spent it together entirely , and played music . |
| 15 | ‘ And so we separated you , ’ said Dierdriu , and now there was an immense sadness in her eyes . |
| 16 | Er and so we did we did we did look at the traffic flows and monitor them . |
| 17 | And then he talked to his family , and then the third time I asked him again , and he still said it was okay , and so we did it . |
| 18 | So when this came up it was obviously advantageous to have some new tracks for the anthology and so we approached him and asked if he would be interested . |
| 19 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 20 | Mr Hobbs unpacked a nightdress and together we helped her out of her clothes . |
| 21 | His wife Glenda told us about it , and together we bullied him into writing this report . |
| 22 | And also we had our own adaptation of the phrase ‘ She 's out to lunch ’ ; in such extreme cases as Boy 's , we would say , Darling , she 's gone to the Opera . |
| 23 | Well that 's a good idea , the thing , you see the thing is she says oh , we , I read anything , you know , buy anything , well I said well suppose you 've already got it , you know , it 's erm , and also we offered him some , some author 's names so he did n't like this , and he did n't want that , you see , so , erm , but , in one hand he 's saying buy me anything and the other hand he 's saying I do n't like this and I do n't like that |
| 24 | In his " titanic struggle with the Shipping Federation , Wilson was utterly reckless in his statements , with the result that writs for libel were showered upon him and often we helped him escape being served with those most unpleasing documents by giving him a " leg up " over the backyard wall " . |
| 25 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 26 | Carpets down and then we got their cooker and the fridge and that and , well you know and that goes through your |
| 27 | David Harper said : ‘ At first we thought it was just stunned and then we realised it was really in a very bad way . ’ |
| 28 | Jonas witnessed the whole attack from the ground at Luqa , and wrote : ‘ … and then we saw them : vic following vic of small grey forms , 15,000 feet , 16,000 feet , perhaps even higher . |
| 29 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 30 | And then we saw it . |