Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here .
2 I might have got worn out , the number of miles we walked and bins we excavated , only he sat on every bench we came across and stared into space .
3 We went upstairs and searched amongst her paltry possessions in those dusty , shadowy chambers .
4 All the rooms downstairs were empty , so we went upstairs and looked in all the rooms except one , which was locked .
5 Once it was finished we went outside and swept round the entire barrack block in an extended line , picking up litter from the damp grass .
6 Then we went home and waited for her return .
7 We smiled feebly and refrained from attempting any further communication with these introspective folk .
8 And the night that it was over we met in our quarters , we poured a drink and we stood there and looked at each other and he said well , we made it .
9 And we sat there and talked until 12 o'clock at night , and his driver was asleep on the sofa in the hall outside .
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