Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not changing my tune , Councillor Wyle knows that in the past I have actually offered to go with them when they 've made erm , visits to the minister , and when he said , we we we tried , but we never got anywhere , and on various issues I 've said , well perhaps if we got us an all party delegation , at least we could have done no worse . |
| 2 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 3 | And as Clarissa usually ties back her hair , we showed her a sophisticated style that takes only seconds , but looks professional . |
| 4 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 5 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We felt it an appropriate gesture in the circumstances , ’ said meeting secretary Roy Swinbank . |
| 8 | They 've had to go for the we did them a few sort of quotes on the survey side of this Arrow Park and er we 've got ta , you know , really stick to this tight budget because it 's the only way you can get them no matter what people are telling you erm about the recession being over , people still want things for nothing . |
| 9 | What we did with , we bought her a little guitar so that she can play it and have a bit of music and something to do |
| 10 | I do n't think there is any question about that , and I feel like we gave him a good shot at staying alive . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought Spartak were a bit lax at the back over there , and let's be fair , we gave them a soft goal . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought Spartak were a bit lax at the back over there , and let's be fair , we gave them a soft goal . |
| 13 | We gave them an early Christmas present . |
| 14 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 15 | When she qualified for Barcelona we gave her a nice bit of sirloin and two turkey drumsticks . ’ |
| 16 | One day Mary and Reggie will say , Yes , we did try living in a commune , we gave it a fair trial , but we are afraid … |
| 17 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |