Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made it in a smother of white water close inshore towards Buckie . |
| 2 | We made it in a factory ( Hollowcore ) using moulded GRG . |
| 3 | His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We asked you for a letter written by a father to his son admitting that he has some embarrassing or socially undesirable condition . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We got you on a flight out of Dulles via Heathrow the day after tomorrow . |
| 9 | We priced it at a wholesaler price , a retailer price and a con the price of a consumer . |
| 10 | But you are speaking of an occasion some days ago , when we recovered him after an attempt at escape . |
| 11 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 12 | We helped him to a rock . |
| 13 | We invited them to a service on Remembrance Sunday evening at which their loved one would be mentioned by name . |
| 14 | We caught them with a net and we used to sell them as cage-birds . ’ |
| 15 | We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch . |
| 16 | We approached it with a will to get things done with socialist thinking . |
| 17 | It seemed beyond belief to start with , we approached it as a trick , a lure , but now ferried confident . |
| 18 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 19 | We based ours on an example of more than 700 . |
| 20 | We hit him with a log . |
| 21 | Therefore we submitted it as a candidate . |
| 22 | When we prepared the Fifth Symphony , we recorded it as a trial , worked on it again , then recorded it properly — sixty hours before we first gave it in public ! |
| 23 | ‘ We inherited him from a friend of my mother . |
| 24 | ‘ We inherited him from a friend of my mother . |
| 25 | He immediately rang the Oxford Mission sisters , and by the time we reached them in a taxi they had beds prepared and a doctor called , and in two days Mig was well again . |
| 26 | We kept her in a box in a back room . |
| 27 | But some of the early days , they , we , we gathered them into a park which er the w they were cannibalized . |
| 28 | It 's what we used to do if we took them off a line and got them cleaning up , it 's a token tow pound ten a day . |
| 29 | We took him for an X-ray . |
| 30 | We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it . |