Example sentences of "we [vb past] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got offered a lot of European dates after Reading , ’ says Gordon , ‘ but we backed off to rehearse and then went to America . |
| 2 | As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem . |
| 3 | As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem . |
| 4 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 5 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
| 6 | Even before we 'd exchanged a word , I knew that she would let me do anything I wanted to her . |
| 7 | Jennifer , of Dewsbury , Yorks , said : ‘ As soon as we divorced we both realised we 'd made a mistake . ’ |
| 8 | I knew we 'd made a mistake as soon as we 'd … we 'd … ’ |
| 9 | Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we 'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels . |
| 10 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 11 | We 'd joined a demo of people who wanted to put the wall back up and return to communism ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’ |
| 13 | We 'd received a tip-off about a shipment of cocaine due in at Nice aboard a South American freighter , so when it was unloaded we were able to apprehend the gang without much of a struggle . |
| 14 | We had Stevenage Town Hall on the Friday , The Marquee on the Saturday morning and Saturday evening we had the Brummel Club in Bromley which was David 's home town at that time — we 'd received a hell of a lot of publicity for that one . |
| 15 | Monika said : ‘ We developed a deep friendship and one night after we 'd drunk a lot of rum at my house , he tried to kiss me . |
| 16 | Now er when we 'd done a waggon er it was n't just er right , that 's alright , er we had a railway examiner come along and er he 'd go round it and if there was anything as he was was n't satisfied with , or any other further repairs , he he 'd stop that waggon from going out , and er of course we had to go r go back and do it . |
| 17 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 18 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
| 19 | If any of the rest of us realized we 'd improved a story we 'd been telling , we 'd just keep quiet about it . ’ |
| 20 | I think in truth erm er we 'd taken a weekend off and er to go to Venice , there was a big er art exhibition on and Anne wanted to see that . |
| 21 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 22 | you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families . |
| 23 | Course , he wanted to know if we 'd got a video we could lend him . |
| 24 | We 'd got a temp by now who eyed Malcolm through a haze of blue eyeshadow and tapped on the typewriter with fingernails like goose quills . |
| 25 | ‘ He did once say to me that we did n't know what we 'd got a hold of . |
| 26 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 27 | And we I tell you we 'd got a couple of hundred in ours . |
| 28 | I wish we 'd got a bit further really but it 's hard work . |
| 29 | She knew we 'd got a clue , even if she did n't know what it was . |
| 30 | You know , because we 'd got a piano , he 'd got a drum set for Christmas . |