Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 2 | She stopped me in town funny enough erm oh a good couple of weeks ago like , she says to me oh have you heard , cos I was saying about oh we 'd seen something in the shop , it was ever so nice , I said oh I 'm too fat for that she said ooh have you seen , she must be erm infat you know bloody infatuated with dieting |
| 3 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 4 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 5 | We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed . |
| 6 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 7 | We 'd left her in the car actually . |
| 8 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 9 | But at least we managed to keep it in the UK , although we had lots of offers to go abroad . |
| 10 | We did miss them in the final , but the other girls responded magnificently , so we got through by 12–11 in the end . ’ |
| 11 | I know we did saw it in the fridge . |
| 12 | And , anyway , we did put them in the picture , they left much more knowledgeable than when they came . |
| 13 | And er I remember we used to get the gas then , and er that was at a time they were used have an electric lamp we had had one in the stall , you see ? |
| 14 | We had run one in an earlier year , erm , I think that was slightly a different type , but that , er , the idea was the same . |
| 15 | Soon we had lost him in the dark , so we stopped and sat down , breathing heavily , to rest . |
| 16 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 17 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 18 | It was fortunate indeed that we had put him in a cell with another person . |
| 19 | When we 'd see these old people , we had to help them in every way , we were taught to do that . ’ |
| 20 | And then we had to tell her in the end ! |
| 21 | ‘ It 'll do , ’ he said , with his customary offhand modesty , as we stood admiring it in the church . |
| 22 | ‘ We wanted to put you in the picture , ’ Otley said . |
| 23 | The only human explanation was that one of us had said something in an unguarded moment . |