Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 2 | She came out and said he was definitely still in one piece but probably had cramp or pins and needles so we gave him some painkiller . |
| 3 | So if we did it this way , erm , let's pick an actual bearing , so that we get it right . |
| 4 | You know , I think if we confused her one day , |
| 5 | If you make a mistake , it 's just not possible to go back and retrieve it , and for a selector to say , ‘ Well , I do n't think this person 's made a very good case , I 'm sure if we gave them another chance they would make a better one . ’ |
| 6 | Thus , by selecting the right ‘ task ’ , we have constrained a system we know , because we designed it that way , to be organized redundantly to give a double dissociation . |
| 7 | Anyone who bought the shares when we tipped them last year at 8p has done well . |
| 8 | My right hon. Friend referred to the Chancellor 's views but , when we asked him that question in the Select Committee , it became clear that he was not so much against it in principle as uncertain in his own mind what he should do . |
| 9 | ‘ Every seat was sold out for every performance when we did it last year . ’ |