Example sentences of "and we [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we shot a video for the single with him too . ’ |
| 2 | And we offered a mini-prize , of £250 ( plus two £ 100 prizes for the runners-up ) , not for carrying out such an experiment but for providing an idea for a critical experiment . |
| 3 | And we got a firm in Glasgow who had to move . |
| 4 | Despite the lack of time , he was as good as his word , and we got a phone call from Colin Dobson , second in command of permanent way work , and arrangements were made for us to contact the signalman at Llangollen , since Colin would be away on business . |
| 5 | In the early stages we were we you know used to take phone calls and take them at face value , and we got a phone call like this . |
| 6 | But then me and Emma got going and we got a bit drunk and we just said anything and it was really embarrassing . |
| 7 | The local youth centre raised the money for us to have a phone installed and we got a FreeFone number for the Exeter and Devon area . |
| 8 | And in other circumstances , when Sanusi was not contrasted with Italy , Zuwaya marked the ambiguity : ‘ We invited the Sanusi to Kufra because we wanted law — and we got a government . ’ |
| 9 | And we got a radio and heard the world news . |
| 10 | Other siblings resented the fact that ‘ she got the cash and we got a load of old books ’ ( p. 375 ) . |
| 11 | … and we got a petition ! |
| 12 | I remember because in nineteen thirty eight , er we were scheduled to have an opening in about the September and we got a team coming down to play us at football and we were going to have a social evening , darts and that , at , in the evening and of course at that particular time , the war was a definite threat . |
| 13 | The band was called Touching Home and we got a lot of church functions and ended up playing for the American community there . ’ |
| 14 | and he says and I 'm putting in God knows how many hours , he said and we got a drop to fifty pound a day . |
| 15 | What we had to do was pop out to buy daddy a card and we got a paper and we got some biscuits and cake for tea for tomorrow . |
| 16 | He was very supportive and we learnt a lot from each other . ’ |
| 17 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
| 18 | Their approach was just to stick out the records , but more thought went into later releases and we had a structure where the label was treated with more importance . |
| 19 | and we had a conversation about it |
| 20 | I set off and we had a taxi because it was terrible and I thought oh well , we had a lovely weekend , I 'm not going to er spoil it by being soaking wet getting to Piccadilly station . |
| 21 | And we had a neighbour named and he 'd worked at E T N S all his life and had some influence and I mentioned it to him and he asked me , asked me if he could find me a job . |
| 22 | Most people on a very windy day , and we had a couple you know in the winter there did n't we , and storms wind storms , and there are n't many people who say , you know in the middle of that storm , oh I feel quite comfortable , I 'm quite happy with this . |
| 23 | and we had a couple Mark 's had them , I sa , but they wanted fourteen ninety nine . |
| 24 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 25 | I can show you now erm what I bought with my divi and we had a speaker at the Guild er on stainless steel and er he , wh you know when they asked questions you said well how do we , how do we clean it ? |
| 26 | Do you remember Joan , I think you were doing it , and we had a limerick , years , some years ago , we had a limerick , I think Joan was doing it . |
| 27 | and we had a look over that temple , it was the Abdul Sindal temples . |
| 28 | And we had a biscuit |
| 29 | In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there . |
| 30 | She gave me a cup of French coffee and we had a chat . ’ |