Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met her under various guises throughout the islands : with the Bugis pirates in the Moluccas , where we cast offerings into her whirlpool ; and amongst the tribesfolk of Sumba who rely on her signal in the form of the one night each year when Sumba 's beaches briefly swarm with red sea-worm — to initiate their deadly war-sport between lance-throwing armies of mounted warriors . |
| 2 | We met lots of loyal Hairflair fans plus some new readers who we 're sure will be tuning in every month from now on ! |
| 3 | We made it without much trouble , but it was a different story on our return , when the tide had receded causing the swell to break . |
| 4 | Once we made it in four hours , door to beach to door : bury Mum 's feet in the sand , forget they 're there , plunge spade into sand and come close to severing three toes . |
| 5 | We asked him for general news . |
| 6 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
| 7 | oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ? |
| 8 | We got lots of international media coverage , far more than the Queen would have got without us , and again we were very well supported by the Dutch people . |
| 9 | We helped them with three posts yeah aye , on your plate |
| 10 | Of course we knew we were going to marry , we promised ourselves to each other when she was only sixteen . |
| 11 | We regarded ourselves as more hostages than prisoners . |
| 12 | Then , suddenly , we found ourselves in brilliant sunshine at the southern outskirts of the city , at the foot of the pre-Alps , where the River Adige emerges into the plain . |
| 13 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 14 | ‘ We played plenty of pretty football at Spurs , but it was n't good enough because we just did n't threaten them ‘ We will The side I put out on Wednesday night will have to be positive . |
| 15 | ‘ When the merger between AY and Ernst & Whinney came along in 1989 , we welcomed it with open arms because strategically it was very sensible . ’ |
| 16 | But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 17 | Very much on the alert , we followed him into thick bush . |
| 18 | ‘ We heard nothing of that kind , ’ I said . |
| 19 | We discovered plenty of small fish . |
| 20 | ‘ We taught them on three levels depending on experience , but people really did seem to enjoy it , ’ said Gill Wootten , a member of Cleveland Clog Dancers . |
| 21 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 22 | We collected them like rare orchids , gleefully sharing our latest acquisitions and discoveries . |
| 23 | However she did not work in isolation of the sales figures and shop reports , which she read avidly and , as she wrote to Moira : ‘ I feel that we hit it in many respects but we do n't seem to repeat the exciting things fast though . ’ |
| 24 | And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time . |
| 25 | He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five . |
| 26 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 27 | I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear . |
| 28 | It should be remembered that a serving sergeant pilot ( as we called ourselves in those days ) had little clue about the policy that emerged from Arthur Marshall ( Air Ministry ) when the plans for one White Paper were never implemented before another White Paper overtook it . |
| 29 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 30 | We broke it off this afternoon . ’ |