Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 2 | Jesus , if you knew how hard we tried to get her off that damned powder . ’ |
| 3 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 4 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 5 | And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory . |
| 6 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 7 | But we had to tell them about some modifications that needed to be done . |
| 8 | How many days it was out of service and this that and the other and erm they used to send us an invoice on the mileage run because at the same time we knew what tyres were on the bus we had to inform them of any tyre changes and they kept records the same as us . |
| 9 | And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory . |
| 10 | What we could choose to do if we wanted to keep them as that figure head and as a P R agency almost , we could pay them a specific salary , similar to other people who work in advertising industry |