Example sentences of "we [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
3 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
4 | He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it . |
5 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
6 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
7 | We 'd left her in the car actually . |
8 | But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin . |
9 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
10 | Soon we had lost him in the dark , so we stopped and sat down , breathing heavily , to rest . |
11 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
12 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
13 | It was fortunate indeed that we had put him in a cell with another person . |
14 | We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt . |
15 | This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans . |