Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So on that very depressing note , er I 'll leave we 've got a few minutes for questions or objections if anyone wants to , we 've got some head shaking .
2 So you see we , we 've got a three-tier movement you know , throughout the , throughout the country .
3 ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up .
4 Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America .
5 And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there .
6 As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job .
7 We 'd hired a camper van to get around ’ , Nigel explains .
8 We 'd hired a camper van to get around , ’ Nigel explains .
9 ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’
10 We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’
11 I thought we 'd got a good team .
12 And I suppose if we 'd got a clean sheet , and we started again , we 'd do it differently .
13 He told us we 'd got a yellow streak a yard wide down our backs .
14 ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music .
15 So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get .
16 Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ?
17 Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened .
18 Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place .
19 We 'd had a little car before he got there .
20 We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning .
21 Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’
22 And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was .
23 At last we 'd sunk a decent putt .
24 We really thought we 'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers .
25 Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’
26 We were this time last year , and we ve got a better squad this time around ( and indeed than that which won the league ) .
27 Manager Paul Malone surveyed another packed treatment room after yesterday 's game with Linfield and said : ‘ We 've suffered a bad run of injuries over the last month .
28 erm and then the , the , the second import erm major action was about erm local government , and I think that 's really where the point which we , we 've reached a take-home message that we want to erm bring to this council .
29 We 've mounted a whole series of experiments related to finding out what happens to pyre goods in the fire when they 're placed with the body .
30 We 've mounted a whole series of experiments related to finding out what happens to pyre goods in the fire when they 're placed with the body .
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