Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so we fussed around it like flies round shite |
| 2 | When the Secretary of State could bring himself to talk about his own legislation , we heard from him in effect an admission that the Government who brought us the poll tax are now bringing us a new poll tax . |
| 3 | ‘ We fretted about you in Amsterdam . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We could n't think where you were , ’ said my mother , ‘ we hunted for you for hours . ’ |
| 5 | We prayed for him in June . |
| 6 | We survived on it for years . ’ |
| 7 | He 'd read books about murders and we talked about them for years . |
| 8 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 9 | Now you 'll be familiar with the fact since we went through it in April that there has been a sharp jump in our known assets brought about by the sale of Elsivir and the fact that it had a very substantially written down value in our books , seventy five million pounds . |
| 10 | We looked at him in disgust and just stood there popping our bubble-gum while he explained to her that she had betrayed her tribe and would have to be tied to the totem-pole . |
| 11 | We looked at it for ages when it was dead . |
| 12 | ‘ We spoke to him on Saturday , and he told us that he and the rest of the team were safe and well , ’ Mr McNeilage said . |
| 13 | I think we said to you on Friday erm both me and Roger actually said that he he went into er he went in for the kill and he c he came out with slaughter |
| 14 | Is not this what we said to you in Egypt , ‘ Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians ’ ? |
| 15 | Richard has installed an organ in his living room , which we had an opportunity to hear when we stayed with him in August . |