Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met her under various guises throughout the islands : with the Bugis pirates in the Moluccas , where we cast offerings into her whirlpool ; and amongst the tribesfolk of Sumba who rely on her signal in the form of the one night each year when Sumba 's beaches briefly swarm with red sea-worm — to initiate their deadly war-sport between lance-throwing armies of mounted warriors . |
| 2 | We made it without much trouble , but it was a different story on our return , when the tide had receded causing the swell to break . |
| 3 | Once we made it in four hours , door to beach to door : bury Mum 's feet in the sand , forget they 're there , plunge spade into sand and come close to severing three toes . |
| 4 | We asked him for general news . |
| 5 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
| 6 | oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ? |
| 7 | We helped them with three posts yeah aye , on your plate |
| 8 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 9 | ‘ When the merger between AY and Ernst & Whinney came along in 1989 , we welcomed it with open arms because strategically it was very sensible . ’ |
| 10 | But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 11 | Very much on the alert , we followed him into thick bush . |
| 12 | ‘ We taught them on three levels depending on experience , but people really did seem to enjoy it , ’ said Gill Wootten , a member of Cleveland Clog Dancers . |
| 13 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 14 | We collected them like rare orchids , gleefully sharing our latest acquisitions and discoveries . |
| 15 | However she did not work in isolation of the sales figures and shop reports , which she read avidly and , as she wrote to Moira : ‘ I feel that we hit it in many respects but we do n't seem to repeat the exciting things fast though . ’ |
| 16 | He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five . |
| 17 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 18 | I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear . |
| 19 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 20 | We broke it off this afternoon . ’ |
| 21 | To open the walnuts we placed them on one stone and hammered with another . |
| 22 | ‘ We brought him on this tour so he could develop , and I believe he could be the player to hold England 's batting together for the next ten years . ’ |
| 23 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 24 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 25 | We took it for forensic tests . ’ |
| 26 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 27 | We saw him at Old Trafford |
| 28 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 29 | I am not sure that we would think the dancing , except by some of the principals , quite so wonderful by today 's standards , but we saw it with different eyes then , and John would have for comparison his memories of the Cape Town Ballet Club 's brave but handicapped attempt at the last act of the ballet , Aurora 's Wedding . |
| 30 | W we tried internment before , it caused a massive escalation of violence cos you never , you get families are angry , it escalates the numbers who are committed to terrorism , last time it was just the Republicans , if we did it on both sides it would just escalate terrorism . |