Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned .
2 Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end .
3 We made it into the hall , which was actually less crowded , though still full .
4 We made it to the car .
5 We made it to the Pastukhov rocks without a break and steered left where the slope steepened considerably .
6 By the time we made it to the foyer , a panic had started .
7 We made it in a smother of white water close inshore towards Buckie .
8 We made it in a factory ( Hollowcore ) using moulded GRG .
9 But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year .
10 His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’
11 And he said good , and here 's ours , and we passed them along the table , and we wrote down two point six , I said excuse me , could I just have that back , there 's a slight typing error , excuse me , sorry twenty-two per cent .
12 As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows .
13 He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing .
14 ‘ I 'd be privileged to help , ’ he said , when we asked him about the display .
15 Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’
16 We asked them to the meeting and we look forward to listening to you later on in the agenda .
17 We asked you for a diatribe in verse from Neil Kinnock against the Tory press , the short-sighted public , or anyone or anything else he might be against at the moment .
18 We asked you for a letter written by a father to his son admitting that he has some embarrassing or socially undesirable condition .
19 ‘ As soon as we got him to a doctor — which took some time — it was discovered that Major Maxim must have held the ammonia under our man 's nose while pouring some odourless spirit — quite possibly strong vodka — onto the blindfold in order to produce the stinging sensation . ’
20 I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK .
21 we got him from the rescue , animal rescue you know
22 We got him from the Dogs ’ Home and he 's never been very obedient . ’
23 We got him from the RSPCA and he is my first dog .
24 But we were gon na do it erm , cos we got it on the Tamworth Heralds .
25 We got you on a flight out of Dulles via Heathrow the day after tomorrow .
26 we laid her on the step and I said to Elizabeth she 's stopped breathing !
27 We priced it at a wholesaler price , a retailer price and a con the price of a consumer .
28 We outclassed them in every department except one , goal-scoring , as their three to our none all too clearly showed .
29 But you are speaking of an occasion some days ago , when we recovered him after an attempt at escape .
30 We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome .
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