Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We paid him the other day . |
| 2 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 3 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 4 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 5 | Not to , I know we saw it the other night did n't we ? |
| 6 | We saw it the last time in action on the weekend of the French vote on Maastricht — harnessing all our resources to serve the viewer and listener in a way no-one else can . |
| 7 | We liked it the first time , it was a bit like |
| 8 | Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way . |
| 9 | Whoops … we gave you the wrong phone number for Xalt Inc last week . |
| 10 | We had them the other night . " |
| 11 | All of us did it the whole time . |