Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And be about five or six of us left then , and we were just getting ready to get off when we got hit by the second big blast , which caused most of the burns to all of us then . |
| 2 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 3 | We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village . |
| 4 | He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand . |
| 5 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 6 | Each day so far we 'd driven into the left rough and finished up taking bogey-fives . |
| 7 | Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ . |
| 8 | We 'd started at the same time . |
| 9 | And had n't we got rid of the American troops from Vietnam ? |
| 10 | Yet they see nothing inconsistent with objecting to a well-engineered nuclear waste disposal plant which is clearly necessary to dispose safely of irradiated material already created ; or to properly regulated high-combustion chemical waste disposal plants that are the only alternative ( unless we get rid of the chemical industry ) to toxic wastes being dumped surreptitiously in some field or on some beach . |
| 11 | A further advantage of using ( as I mentioned several times before ) is that we get rid of the vectorial nature of the problem . |
| 12 | How would we have done against the Antipodean giants ? |
| 13 | Nor would we have known about the overnight accommodation in a converted farm , now a countryside centre , in the centrepiece 1,000-acre site Sirhowy Valley Country Park . |
| 14 | At last one day Martin said to Mihal , " Why do n't we get rid of the old man ? |
| 15 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |
| 16 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've trained against the All Blacks sevens squad , seriously , we have , ’ the Bear insisted . |
| 18 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 19 | It 's a reputation we 've kept to the present day . |
| 20 | The truth is that for a weekly paper in something as effervescent and ethereal as pop , all that we 've done over the last 40 years is not as important as what we do next week . |
| 21 | However , that does n't have an effect on our er ability to agree a figure of three three for the city itself , in the structure plan , because the work we 've done on the local plan taking into account commitments and suitable allowances for small sites , does indicate to us that a figure of three three is achievable , but would be extremely difficult to exceed , the difference here between the four thousand and the three three does , however , have an impact on our neighbours clearly , and as was mentioned yesterday the City Council does own some some twenty nine hectares of land outside its current boundary , er located in the Ryedale District Council area , that land , some of that land has planning consent , the remainder is allocated in the draft Southern Ryedale local plan and was excluded from the greenbelt , that land it is the City Council 's intention to use to meet its er requirements for affordable housing , could accommodate some seven hundred dwellings , I think it is very important for me to emphasize that that is a very clear commitment of the City Council , and therefore that land in Ryedale would not er in the majority of its case be available for open market use , we would be seeking to use it to meet er affordable housing requirements . |
| 22 | It 's just the same as what we 've done in the first one , and we 're |
| 23 | This paper only gives erm an , what is called an integrated pollution inspectorate , now unfortunately with those sort of central inspectorates is that after the public 's attention has drifted on , they tend to be erm , they tend to dwindle in numbers , as we 've seen with the present pollution inspectorate . |
| 24 | I must say Professor Hoskin I was rather struck by pictures in the papers today , yesterday of Boris Yeltsin standing over a boar he 'd shot , it was strongly reminiscent of pictures we 've seen of the former president of Romania , Ceauşescu . |
| 25 | The display we 've seen over the last night would have been quite average for Scotland and Northern Ireland but this far south in Oxford it was quite spectacular . |
| 26 | If we can get some action on the ground to tackle rights of way issues , we 'll be able to deal with the kinds of conflicts we 've seen in the past decade . |
| 27 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 28 | Another thirty Health and Safety proposals are on the way such as that on working time in the news last week and another to restore the protection for young people at work which we 've lost over the last decade , and just as important the union has just n not just reacting to what 's coming out of Brussels , it 's actually helping set the agenda . |
| 29 | We 've lost over the past two years or , two or three years we 've lost about 60 per cent of our biggest trading accounts through soft loans from the big brewers . |
| 30 | Is this a *true* reflection of the quality of football we 've played over the first couple of months … and are we likely to break Cov 's unbeaten run ? |