Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | As we met she slumped in the snow . |
2 | We asked you to choose between the two Royals in a fun phone-in . |
3 | The budget was about right , except for the extras we added later , and we got it finished in the summer . |
4 | ‘ We found her sitting in the loo lighting up . ’ |
5 | We found him huddled on the floor of a makeshift hospital in Bardera . |
6 | We found it buried in the grass and it obviously been put there deliberately to maim . |
7 | When we approached she took to the steep places where we could not follow , and so we left her . ’ |
8 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
9 | Yeah , they 're all listed are n't but as we came we came in the way we would come , I 'm a bit ignorant , so I suppose we were |
10 | Selecting the right sized Disc , we took a pan of milk and we allowed it to heat to the point where it was about to boil over . |
11 | Then we heard him shouting from the depths : Is anybody there ? he was telling us he had broken both legs , and there was a lot of blood . |
12 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
13 | We took them look at the |
14 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
15 | Cos we saw them walk down the road after , sort of after him and I said |
16 | so we saw them , er saw them actually because we live in a flat , and we saw them coming from the station , er one , one Saturday morning |
17 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
18 | ‘ We thought you were going to sing , ’ I lied , ‘ when we saw you sitting round the fire . ’ |
19 | We saw oh , we saw you playing in the pa in police precinct yesterday . |
20 | Before we went we met in the family room , Tremayne pretending nonchalance and looking unexpectedly sophisticated in his dinner jacket : grey hair smooth in wings , strong features composed , bulky body slimmed by ample expert tailoring . |
21 | Erm we went I went into the hall and saw that fire . |
22 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
23 | ‘ The first time we went he looked at the dog and showed no interest . |
24 | We said we said at the start of this that we did enough training . |
25 | Then we had them voting for the imposition of VAT on heating fuels , a cruel tax on the ordinary person as well as the pensioner . |
26 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |
27 | None of us expected it to go to the proportions it has gone to . |
28 | The rest of us watched them disappear among the trees and then continued on the broader path , climbing slowly . |