Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We paid him the other day .
2 We called them The Big Ones .
3 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 .
4 For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony .
5 Not to , I know we saw it the other night did n't we ?
6 Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way .
7 Whoops … we gave you the wrong phone number for Xalt Inc last week .
8 We had them the other night . "
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