Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got talking and strolled along the riverside path too engrossed to hear the rumble of thunder getting nearer , or note the wind getting up to a blustery gale . |
| 2 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |
| 3 | After we 'd sat and talked in Brian 's kitchen for a while , we were taken through to the falconry part of the house . |
| 4 | We enjoyed walking and playing in the surrounding countryside . |
| 5 | The rest of the afternoon we spent shopping and taking in the experience of having so many shops and stalls under one roof There were all types to browse in from clothes , stationery , crafts and food as well as many others . |
| 6 | Once away from the gym and the deadening influence of the Butcher we felt released and began to caper along the corridor to the next lesson . |
| 7 | We end up with the Shakespeare we knew savaged and refashioned in the Laureate 's own image with ‘ an almost pathological psychic alienation from the culture within which his plays triumphed ’ : the Blackamoor , the naked , essential man , hovelled with swine , revealing himself to Lear and to Timon in their extremity . |
| 8 | We did try and get in touch with him . |
| 9 | The piano that we had inspected and paid for in the city was delivered by three young Arabs in a beat-up van . |
| 10 | After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers . |
| 11 | An official I spoke to said there were no staff to take the train on and we had to leave and wait for another to come along . ’ |
| 12 | I think my commitment undoubtedly has a lot to do with the fact that we had to struggle and fight for everything we have . |
| 13 | He could have stopped the trial and we had discussed whether to apply for a stay of prosecution , but once I was in the fight I wanted to carry on , whatever the consequences . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As a result we had to regroup and go after them again in a big pincer movement . |
| 15 | We allocated speaking and listening to one profile component since they are essentially reciprocal , interacting activities and , as such , best taken together . |
| 16 | He may have heard the cow moaning as she gave birth , his ears sensitized to noises the rest of us would not have heard , as we sat talking and laughing around the fire . |