Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 3 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 4 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 5 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 6 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 7 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 8 | He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it . |
| 9 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 10 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 11 | We 'd left her in the car actually . |
| 12 | But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin . |
| 13 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 14 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 15 | We began to treat him like a strange alien person who need to be over-protected , who needed to be shielded from outsiders and the press . |
| 16 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 17 | ‘ When you 're writing stuff , these kinds of songs come out and you know you 're never going to use them seriously , but we had such a laugh when we were playing about with that one , we decided to use it on the single . |
| 18 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 19 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 20 | We decided to show it to a booking agent who books cabaret , so I spoke to Harry Dawson who did a lot of , cabaret work and we auditioned it for him . |
| 21 | We decided to present him with a small token which he can take to his new life , and keep in memory of his bachelor days and the friends he has left behind . |
| 22 | However , we decided to try it with the food and tucked into some quite outstanding starters , including terrine of foie gras with wild mushrooms and some grilled bites of red mullet with caviar which positively leapt into the mouth . |
| 23 | ‘ We managed to sell it as a going concern , but got next to nothing for it and had to take a massive write-off . |
| 24 | I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney . |
| 25 | But at least we managed to keep it in the UK , although we had lots of offers to go abroad . |
| 26 | However , if we worshipped a goddess who lived on Snowdon and adored strawberries , then non-practical , noneconomic ideas might dictate that we did grow them on the mountain top . |
| 27 | We did make it to a boozer afterwards , though , and we all agreed it was worth making a note of for future reference . |
| 28 | We did miss them in the final , but the other girls responded magnificently , so we got through by 12–11 in the end . ’ |
| 29 | I know we did saw it in the fridge . |
| 30 | And , anyway , we did put them in the picture , they left much more knowledgeable than when they came . |