Example sentences of "we [vb past] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a cement block two feet high for us to lie on , the toilet a hole without water , two worn blankets ( later we got a third one ) and one pair of trousers and one shirt per year . |
| 2 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 3 | So if we added a third and a quarter could you turn them into twelfths ? |
| 4 | We lost a third of the workforce in my industry , mainly in unskilled and semi-skilled posts , many companies went bust and others were cut down in size dramatically . |
| 5 | This same attitude can also be seen in the exasperating , but typical , response that we received whenever we questioned a third party 's motives for doing something : ‘ Oh , sara ’ li kaa' ’ — roughly : ‘ Oh , it 's his business . ’ |
| 6 | We engaged a third syce called Makonnen ; he turned out to be a quarrelsome intriguer and we eventually got rid of him . |