Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we dredged them from nineteen twenty five to nineteen thirty two . |
| 2 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 3 | Many of our people sickened and died , and we buried them in this strange land . |
| 4 | ‘ We showed it to some professional scriptwriters and they could n't believe what they were reading . ’ |
| 5 | We heard it in nineteen eighty and we heard it again in nineteen eighty seven in pursuance of the House Builders Federation 's er views . |
| 6 | But we never really believed that John Major was a sports fan until we saw him on that bleak Sunday afternoon at Stamford Bridge . |
| 7 | Won the league above us in 1965 by 0.00001 of a goal difference and yet criticise our 1992 title when we won it by several clear points . |
| 8 | Delegates , this resolution is about uniting all of the unions in the public sector , after all we did it in nineteen seventy nine and as we all know that was against our Labour government , with one aim , to reject this government 's pay policy and to combine and fight for a pay increase which we 'll endeavour to counter the savage attacks which are being made against public service workers . |