Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Frinton we played a one-armed bandit for two whole clattering hours and never attained three fruits in a row — but did we mope ? |
| 2 | Just to be on the safe side we had a long rope attached to the raft and tied round a tree on the bank so that if the Indians lost control the rope would pull it to a stop . |
| 3 | On Tuesday we had a first-class Budget , a Budget for recovery . |
| 4 | Farther down the coast we saw a huge kittiwake colony on an inland cliff and went to investigate . |
| 5 | Okay you 're absolutely right er we did play that at the beginning of the programme we had a little trouble with our C D what happened there Stuart it went off the air did n't it ? |
| 6 | After the programme we exchanged a few words , but he had to dash off to another engagement . |
| 7 | TALKING of questionnaires we received a curious release about a job appointment at the National Westminister Bank at Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | Finally we give in and rent the movie we ignored a few months ago when we went to see Midnight Run . |
| 9 | In this study we found a good agreement between the two tests , particularly considering the fact that they measure two different variables — namely , bile acid losses and bile acid synthesis . |
| 10 | On many occasions in our study we found a sharp contrast between the professionals ' perception that a high degree of consensus had been reached and the parents ' perception that they had agreed to a course of action because they saw no other real choice , particularly if the urgent needs of the child and other family members were to be quickly met . |
| 11 | They did n't but as a spin-off we recovered a stolen Ford Transit and caravan . |
| 12 | And following that recommendation we accepted a rash amendment on the floor of . |
| 13 | In the first few months we received a considerable amount of written advice from individuals and professional organisations , and so in making our decisions we could draw on a range of expertise . |
| 14 | Er as you got older of course you got different meals , but as youngsters we ate a terrific amount of bread and jam . |
| 15 | Being on soft peat land , digging was easy and at a depth of three feet we found a two inch cylindrical piece of metal . |
| 16 | It has been a particular source of worry that sales of the magazine have been so low ; in fact on the current issue we made a considerable loss which as a small Society is very difficult to cover . |
| 17 | After Dr Jaffery had finished his evening prayers we ate a simple iftar together : dates , grapes and a plate of curried lamb . |
| 18 | Again , Jeremiah was doing the Lord 's work as a servant ; in the passage we heard a few moments ago , he expressed his dismay at the manner in which he was being treated by the people . |
| 19 | We were sat in the North Bank ( could n't get tickets for the Leeds end ) , and in the second half we had a good view of the amount of space that the Arsenal forwards were getting , it was unbelievable . |
| 20 | Whilst the College was in recess we had a great deal of spare time . |
| 21 | T. D. We cleared a little thing up — back end of a wedding . |
| 22 | When we netted the other side of the wood we had a slight problem . |
| 23 | After touring the Cote Sauvage we had a perfect lunch in a crep erie : galettes — whole-wheat crepes made from sarazin ( black wheat ) — filled with ham or melted cheese and accompanied by foaming mugs of Breton cider ; then crisp lacy brown crepes with sugar and jam or chocolate sauce , which bore no resemblance to the limp pancakes served under that name in America . |
| 24 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 25 | After two weeks we got a three page fax from Isobel Lee , Helen 's assistant . |
| 26 | Concentrating first on this small group we attempted a descriptive analysis of each activity and used these to compile what we called , rather cumbersomely , A First Review and Register of School and College-initiated Self — evaluation Activities , in the United Kingdom ( James , 1982 ) . |
| 27 | That evening we attended a royal banquet in the magnificent setting of Wolsey 's hall . |
| 28 | On the first evening we had a lively dinner for the temporary extended family , during which much enthusiastic talking and a fair amount of equally enthusiastic drinking took place . |
| 29 | For our November meeting we had a dual focus of interest . |
| 30 | As we climbed up the canyon we made a great clatter with sticks and stones and old tin cans , announcing our presence to the denizens . |