Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 2 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 3 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 4 | ‘ We got totally wrecked yesterday , ’ said one of his old-fashioned die-hard dope customers , ‘ and rented out Santa Claus — the Movie on video . |
| 5 | I think we got too involved too quickly . ’ |
| 6 | I 'ad a long stint wiv Galloway an' I was gutted when I got the push an' we 'ad ter get out o' the 'ouse . |
| 7 | We shared out share out two between six . |
| 8 | We moved fast back up the stairs , along the passage and back down into the lobby of the Regal Arms , trying not to run . |
| 9 | We used ter fight over work , an' there 's still a scramble at times , let me tell yer . |
| 10 | ‘ We tried desperately to get out of the format of landing somewhere , splitting up , getting lost and getting captured , getting into trouble and getting out of it . |
| 11 | Starting in 1967 , we tried hard to whip up interest in the robots among potential customers , but with little success . |
| 12 | We learnt why seconds frequently jumar on this wall . |
| 13 | We 'd best go on down and I 'll show ye the sittin' room . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think there 's room in the lift for all you old pals , ’ Jonathan smiled hideously , ‘ we 'd best go up other ways . ’ |
| 15 | Glancing round him at the mess , he added coolly , ‘ We 'd best clear up before Mary arrives . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd best get on , Miss Williams , but could I use a cloakroom too ? |
| 17 | ‘ We 'd best get back , ’ she said , turning to him . |
| 18 | ‘ Aye , and not before time , we 'd best see right round the place . |
| 19 | We 'd barely settled in when , sure enough , on 15 May , we were moved again . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'd both grown up a bit , that 's all . |
| 21 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 22 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 23 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
| 24 | But we nearly fainted when we asked which cottage — it was the one we 'd just moved out of ! — |
| 25 | stayed and Andy 's and we 'd just gone over to the shops and . |
| 26 | I mean , we 'd just gone straight away well in fact , we fell asleep down here that 's why we went . |
| 27 | No we 'd just picked up Christine from her friend 's house and I had sort of half a dozen people |
| 28 | A portion of the top floor we 'd completely sealed off with walls of polythene sheeting , and a powerful dehumidifier had been installed . |
| 29 | But yeah he probably come past no he probably went up there as we come down that corner by erm Ipsleigh and when they come back we 'd probably gotten here by then . |
| 30 | So we 'd already touched on have n't we ? |