Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the [noun sg] we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We finally beat him , we did n't beat him the way we wanted , but we won . |
| 2 | We were confident that the new Beer Orders would give us the opportunity we needed . ’ |
| 3 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 4 | The point I 'm making however , is that a , a fairer way to judge this book , might be to say , not well let , let's reject everything in it that 's Lamarckian , cos it does n't fit with our modern prejudices , a fairer way , might be to read it the way we read Darwin 's works , where there is also considerable Lamarckenis Lamarckism , and say well , this is er , this is an understandable error , given the poor state of knowledge that people had about genetics at the time , and then try and make sense of it . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes — bred from a mare Burun gave me the year we fought the Alan . |
| 6 | Well that 's , that 's well that 's all I can recollect in relation to why we did it the way we did . |
| 7 | ‘ It gave us the time we needed to get in here . ’ |
| 8 | We asked him many questions , and finally Johann gave us the information we wanted . |
| 9 | It struck me the minute we started , all the silence and letting people finish . |
| 10 | ‘ And I spotted it the moment we drove off from my flat , ’ Newman rapped back . |
| 11 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |