Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [conj] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In er , , you know , we only reversed when we got to the bottom of that last machine , and why had the guy back , erm , went over it , and go through it again , luckily it was only three high . |
| 2 | Sir Henry and I were both good runners and very healthy men , but we soon realized that we had no chance of catching Selden . |
| 3 | Of course this sally , and the discovery of our locational ancestry opened the way to friendship , though we soon realised that we had much more in common , not least a sharp sense of humour , which we were both going to need . |
| 4 | ‘ We always boasted that we made 29 films with one script — now we have made 30 , ’ laughs Peter , 78 . |
| 5 | I wish you all fortune , and hope that the memory of your life with me is not entirely unwelcome ; after all , we once believed that we loved one another , even though we did not . |
| 6 | We also knew that we constituted the stock middle-class ‘ Ladybird ’ family : Father who goes out to work , mother who works at home , one daughter and one son ; as such we are entirely unrepresentative of the average family . |
| 7 | However , we also knew that we 'd got rid of Abed . |
| 8 | But we nearly fainted when we asked which cottage — it was the one we 'd just moved out of ! — |
| 9 | Pornography , prostitution and homosexuality continue to be seen as variations on a theme to this day , something we implicitly acknowledged when we adopted the word ‘ gay ’ as our own . |
| 10 | We then realized that we had to change that image , if you like to call it that , because we were n't really living normal lives any more . |
| 11 | We then realized that we had gone too far and lacked the critical mass to support the heavy selling effort involved , so we bought another company to fill out the range again . |
| 12 | We then found that we did n't have enough cash to pay the landing fees , and in response I offered Portuguese escudos , converting at the rate in the newspaper . |
| 13 | With iron gords , or hoops as the rich people called them , and with clashes and tensions no less thrilling and dangerous than the real thing , we competitively raced until we dropped . |
| 14 | Erm so by about nine o'clock we absolutely knackered so we went to bed . |
| 15 | One look was enough to confirm that this was polio , and that the delay in coming to see us probably meant that we had passed the porodomal , or incubatory stage . |