Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 2 | As predicted , we did catch up the cold front , refiled IFR and had to climb even further . |
| 3 | We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We had to take out the affected computer and rent another . |
| 5 | We had sailed up the brown Tambopata forty kilometres south from Puerto Maldonaldo in a skiff that barely cleared the water . |
| 6 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 7 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 8 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 9 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |