Example sentences of "we [vb past] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time we fought them , five thousand Macleans died . |
| 2 | ‘ This other team we 've got to beat — we met them on Saturday . |
| 3 | He then startled champions-elect Everton with an early goal when we met them at their Goodison Park headquarters a week later ( 1–2 ) . |
| 4 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
| 5 | We met them at Carberry Hill . |
| 6 | We met them afterwards on stage . |
| 7 | Like the couple who left one of the rides early to get back in time to prepare the evening event ; and two hours later we met them — riding in the opposite direction ! |
| 8 | It 's where we met them . ’ |
| 9 | We met them face to face and he gave his full backing . |
| 10 | We met them on Friday and we did not get the assurances , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 11 | On Wednesday , we met them again , when we were invited to a dinner in their honour at the Embassy . |
| 12 | she 's , she 's only just had her money through , remember when we met them in Tenerife |
| 13 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 14 | Yeah we divided them all up , but if me or Jan needed to refer to anything we 'd recognize the information that we 've put on the envelopes quicker than we 'll recognize the stuff that he 's put in there |
| 15 | The government could pick up anyone they wanted and prosecute at their leisure , if we made them a present of all those names . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd prefer a proper fire , of course , but we made them illegal in this part of London some years ago . ’ |
| 17 | We love our idols because we made them . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's a tricky one to answer because the complexities are still there but we made them a lot more hidden . |
| 19 | They were just blobs of ink — but we made them think |
| 20 | And er in the apprentice we used to have to go round the shops on the town matching their er material in velvets and ribbons and satin for making their hats of , as well as the straw we made them from material as well . |
| 21 | If the police think we made them up , they 'll think the same about the tapes , maybe about the kidnap itself . ’ |
| 22 | Having recovered the sail , we made them bleed the line . |
| 23 | Instead we made them talk about where they lived and about their families . |
| 24 | The melodic contour would suffer if we made them all equally prominent , so we have to decide on their relative importance and stress them accordingly . |
| 25 | But er we made them er , of course the le it 's the leverage that does the cutting you see . |
| 26 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 27 | Anyway , when the ambulance men came we made them a cup of tea , cos they said they a they 'd have been that busy they have n't had a break ! |
| 28 | So we made them a cup of tea and hopefully they were going to talk her into it . |
| 29 | ‘ Harry ’ — impossibly yet further darkness had dawned on the total blackness of George 's conscience — ‘ then we led them to her . |
| 30 | ‘ We attacked them , attacked them , attacked them all the way up that straight and round that bend but they kept pounding more and more on and they held us , ’ said Probert . |