Example sentences of "and we [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds .
2 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 .
3 Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief .
4 And we got these drawings these these
5 I was on bass , David was on acoustic guitar and we got this guy called Tex , he was a black conga player and came around with us doing a few gigs , although nothing really happened .
6 ‘ There 's stuff that I like that them two do n't , and vice versa , but we 've got enough in common and we respect each other . ’
7 ‘ He gave the right advice to the industry and we followed that advice , ’ said Mr Henderson .
8 Your mother divorced him and we had many interests in common . ’
9 I want well out of it , so course she come in got changed , so he said to me I would like you tomorrow to have a word with Robin about stopping her coming down to us he said because erm it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said and we had that hassle he said it 's a load of nonsense he said I 've forgotten
10 I 've spoken to every one of the men and we had that constable from Burford here asking a lot of questions .
11 One was the philosophic opposition of the Right-to-Life groups in this country ; and they said that this was a foot in the door , the first step down the road towards active and involuntary euthanasia , and we had that argument to counter and that group to deal with , and even after countering the argument , we still had the group to deal with .
12 And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ?
13 Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time
14 Anyway , they all came in and we had this instant party which was very pleasant .
15 And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago .
16 He enjoyed the company of his grandchildren and we had several family gatherings .
17 And then we got about another half an hour and we had another call .
18 No and we had another man I and I cried to him , What do you call him again ?
19 No there was er three lads in the double bed and er another two lads in the single bed in one room , and mother was in the front room of course she had husband in those days you see when we were growing up , there was a it was not unusual to sleep top-to- tail if we had any pals , if we had a party and we had any pals we 'd sleep top-to-tail one with a head at the bottom and others with their head at the top , sounds like something out of the Dickens when you start talking about it do n't it ?
20 Thought we 'd have a reading session so we had a reading book and we had some maths .
21 And we had some friends there and one day one of them rang me up and she said , could , could we come quickly we 've got a , a monitor lizard in the garden ?
22 We had enough , we had a roof over our heads and we had enough food and things like that , but nothing for luxuries or little extras .
23 Right okay so that 's why it 's important that we get I mean if we just got one neutron out then theoretically you could sustain a chain reaction , but in practice it would be absorbed , it would n't they would n't all hit , some of them would miss , but as long as we can get on average about one , of those three , hitting another one , we can keep it going , and we get this chain reaction going and th the heat really builds up then , and that 's what they use in a a nuclear reaction reactor .
24 There are more members — and we receive more letters — for Steffi 's fan club service , than for any other player , even Andre Agassi , who has overtaken last year 's previously most popular male player , Stefan Edberg .
25 We know SL2 and the Prodigy and we help each other out . ’
26 Okay we started off and we was talking about the fact that when we perceive things they start off in origin as energy signals in the environment and we detect those changes in the energy and somewhere in the process they get converted into our experiences of perception .
27 There is still an important place within drama activity for the exploration and study of scripted plays , and we addressed this aspect in our statements of attainment and programmes of study .
28 And we spent all day in maternity ward .
29 That worried us as there were several great skuas working the sky above the bog , and we spent some time waiting for the goose to return before setting off again .
30 " One night , " said Carter , " I started to thumb through its pages and I called my wife , Rosalyn , and I called my daughter , Amy , who climbed into my lap , and we spent several hours studying the beautiful history that this book portrays of Persian , of Iran , of its people … "
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