Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Oh , he was very generous to all his friends , but we always seemed to be in the wrong line . ’ |
| 32 | We always promised to be at each other 's wedding , and if I do n't turn up she 'll be upset . |
| 33 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 34 | ‘ We always tried to be one step ahead , but it 's almost its own pigeon hole now . |
| 35 | ‘ But we always tried to be more sympathetic than most , and went out of our way to work with the people who wanted to use our stuff . |
| 36 | Remember what we once meant to one another . ’ |
| 37 | And we once went to Scotland , then breakfast in it , when Pauline was with us did n't , were n't it John ? |
| 38 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
| 39 | However , we still got to school by 9.00am . |
| 40 | But , she said I 'm pleased with him so far , but we still got to be careful that 's why she made him have this collar . |
| 41 | Which we still read to this day . |
| 42 | Even though we 'd come from another prison , we still had to be searched . |
| 43 | I do not believe that we ever said to anyone in geriatric care or anyone who entered a home for any other reason , ’ Do n't worry — social security will pick up the bill , however reasonable or however high . ’ |
| 44 | If we ever got to a siege economy he , Jim , dreaded the effect on our democracy . |
| 45 | That 's as close as we ever got to it . ’ |
| 46 | Vigno , who had served with the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , intimated that if we ever got to Corsica we would be expected to do it in under forty minutes . |
| 47 | The nearest we ever got to Twickenham was Cardiff . ’ |
| 48 | if we ever thought to ourselves what we 're doing |
| 49 | We 'll both get out of your lives and then you can get on with that idyllic existence you shared before we ever came to this island . |
| 50 | Because we , even if we ever came to a final close if |
| 51 | The Technical College had been disappointed in not being nominated a college of advanced technology , and the Principal wrote in 1965 that ‘ prior to the publication of the Robbins Report we confidently expected to be designated as one of the colleges of advanced technology … |
| 52 | We also wrote to all those practices within the region with more than 8000 registered patients that did not intend to enter the fundholding scheme inviting them to act as controls in the study . |
| 53 | We also went to Madrid again and saw a performance by the famous travelling circus , the Circo Price , about whose clowns I wrote a poem in The Prodigal Son . |
| 54 | We also went to the cinema one night to see an English ( ? or American ) film dubbed into Italian , and starring Jeremy Irons . |
| 55 | We do not always go on sporting activities , we also went to the theatre to see , ‘ A Midsummer Nights Dream , ’ by William Shakespeare . |
| 56 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 57 | On two scorching days in May , we also travelled to France to shadow the Inspector on an official visit to the Framatome company 's factory at Chalon-sur-Saône where the pressure vessel was being made . |
| 58 | We also referred to the wife of Coun Ray Flowers as Maureen , her name is in fact Marian . |
| 59 | I told her we were Baptists and she said she would tell her husband because he thought Gran was an amazing woman having such a large family , but she had told him that we probably belonged to ‘ one of these odd religions ! ’ . |
| 60 | When we originally talked to Barry about it , we already knew that the Prime Minister would be guest that night , so we told him all about it , and he had this great idea . |