Example sentences of "[vb past] we [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He built us nine platforms up in the canopy . |
| 2 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 3 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 4 | After half an hour the bus started and moved us seventy metres , to the nearest plane , the one we could have walked to , with less effort and staying warmer . |
| 5 | BIRMINGHAM manager Terry Cooper yesterday blasted live television coverage and said : ‘ It cost us 5,000 fans . ’ |
| 6 | We went to , I think it cost us nine pounds from where we were stopping in Lido to er , to go to er where this Madam |
| 7 | Unfortunately , we sailed straight into a terrible storm , which drove us many miles eastward . |
| 8 | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
| 9 | ‘ He told us other rises throughout the country have averaged around 50 per cent . ’ |
| 10 | He told us terrible tales of people being crushed in crowds , of school finances being wasted on unnecessary floor cleaning bills and of ‘ softies ’ who needed seats when there was a perfectly good floor to sit on ( all the teachers were sat on chairs around the edge of the sports hall at this point , but I do n't think they took it personally ) . |
| 11 | You recall what that minstrel told us some weeks back , Ralf ? |
| 12 | We walked the town walls , whilst Jessie Young told us breathtaking stories of battered Berwick 's stormy history . |
| 13 | The Phoenix Dance Company instructors told us several times that our movements were very good and at one time described them as ‘ nice . ’ |
| 14 | The Phoenix Dance Company instructors told us several times that our movements were very good and at one time described them as ‘ nice . ’ |
| 15 | That mix-up caused us serious problems for the rest of the campaign because we had to be constantly reassuring the media that we would get them good positions . |
| 16 | Standard English caused us enormous problems . |
| 17 | Sometimes the big girls bullied us little ones and made us hand over our teatime bread or evening biscuit . |
| 18 | In the second half of the evening Vic Smith showed us some scenes at Crich , the National Tramway museum , plus a couple of shots of trams abroad . |
| 19 | They showed us some shacks ( almost like dog kennels ) that they used to live in at the time of the Japanese occupation . |
| 20 | Russell showed us some slides from his collection and asked various questions e.g. ‘ Where is that ? ’ |
| 21 | I returned to the toll office , got our money refunded plus a signed waiver that allowed us seven days to return to St Michael without having to pay on the Austrian roads . |
| 22 | Bob Makins joined us two weeks later , as manager of Trumper 's . |
| 23 | Team secretary David Morris said : ‘ Ian only joined us three weeks ago because he had discipline problems at his last club . |
| 24 | Seeing us working for what they thought must be a good cause , they said , they handed us considerable sums of money . |
| 25 | Presently he came out and handed us ten pounds in gold and a cheque for ninety pounds from Coutts 's Bank . |
| 26 | We had a wonderfully imaginative French teacher who spoke only French in the class-room , taught us French songs , introduced us to French games , and brought the lesson to life . |
| 27 | The whole walk from Milngavie to Fort William took us six days . ’ |
| 28 | It took us 18 months to save for a holiday . |
| 29 | It took us five minutes t'bring ‘ im round again . |
| 30 | Habituating a community of chimpanzees — gaining their acceptance as we followed their daily movements through the forest , and learning to recognise the animals as individuals — took us five years . |