Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says , ‘ Last time we met you had a key . ’ |
| 2 | From the first moment we met you wove a spell that has bound me to you more securely than chains could ever do . ’ |
| 3 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 4 | But oh we we 'd we 'd a lot of good fiddlers in those days and a girl at the piano . |
| 5 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 6 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
| 7 | ‘ We decided we needed a bed , an exercise bike , a small set of drawers and a clothes cupboard , ’ said Victoria . |
| 8 | We decided we needed a microwave . |
| 9 | She moved abroad but kept in touch and eventually we persuaded her to see a doctor . |
| 10 | ( We thought we had a budgie in the office one day — whistles constantly ! ) . |
| 11 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 12 | Then , we thought we heard a noise in the wardrobe in his dressing-room . |
| 13 | We stayed in a few bed and breakfasts when we thought we needed a wash , and a few youth hostels . |
| 14 | We thought it indicated a youngster . ’ |
| 15 | We thought you looked a bit out of sorts . ’ |
| 16 | We thought he had a weakness for us and our Empire . |
| 17 | We brought him to Lingfield last week and he went so well on the sand , we thought he had a chance today , ’ said the trainer . |
| 18 | We , we felt we had a lot of talking to do . |
| 19 | A wonderful pale gold colour we felt it tasted a bit like a dry sherry . |
| 20 | ‘ Once we knew we had a daughter someplace out there , what could we do but try to find her ? ’ they said . |
| 21 | We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters . |
| 22 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 23 | ‘ The other day we saw her grab a girl by the pigtails and throw her over the playground fence ! ’ |
| 24 | And what we did we created a framework first of all with six pairs of opposites pairs of opposites and er if you remember this happened in a fairly slow and methodical way very much a left brain activity saying well okay is this a valid pair of opposites to do with that . |
| 25 | And I said , yes , I said , and I said we bought we bought a pack of each . |
| 26 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 27 | Well we had we had a lot of snow in those days , far more than than there 's been since then . |
| 28 | We had we had a training session for ourselves like you know |
| 29 | Before we had we bought a house and so I really had to come back to work because we needed my wages and erm the creche was just being brought out so I knew there was a chance of coming back . |
| 30 | We wanted them to represent a section of the community that was quite close in the social hierarchy to the inner-city population , and in the event many speakers in the samples had inner-city social and family contacts . |