Example sentences of "[vb past] we [adj] [noun] " 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 | When a neighbour 's dog visited us one day , the other two cats ran away immediately . |
| 4 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 5 | Now , Tommy Cooper he never charged us one penny ! |
| 6 | They said we 'd receive eighty cents a day for six hours work and promised us good food , good houses to live in . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yeah that cost us thirty quid . |
| 9 | BIRMINGHAM manager Terry Cooper yesterday blasted live television coverage and said : ‘ It cost us 5,000 fans . ’ |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 12 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 13 | I mean they did n't pay for that it cost us more money . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , we sailed straight into a terrible storm , which drove us many miles eastward . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ He told us other rises throughout the country have averaged around 50 per cent . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He was very friendly and told us other people , but no couples , had come forward claiming to be in his picture . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | A quarter of a century ago , Colin Buchanan told us that road-building , improved public transport and some limitations on the use of vehicles would not aloe solve the problem of traffic in towns . |
| 20 | The Minister told us that clause 12 provided for the Secretary of State to take into account representations made by those who administer the pension scheme in question . |
| 21 | One look at the gatehouse told us that way would be suicide , so we launched a full-scale attack to distract them from you and get Guy over the wall . |
| 22 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 23 | One reviewer told us that case reports prove nothing . |
| 24 | Er cos I think you just told us that man you know |
| 25 | A few Opposition Members told us that smoking costs the national health service £437 million a year . |
| 26 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
| 27 | From the man who told us that unemployment was a price well worth paying , we now have the strategy for the 1990s — ’ wait and see ’ . |
| 28 | The operator told us that rubbish is smouldering at a considerable depth and it would take a lot of work to put it out . |
| 29 | David told us that swan pattern of movement was currently being monitored in the north-east , so he was trying to read the leg bands through his glass . |
| 30 | ‘ So you told us last night , Ramsay , ’ the Earl of Strathearn observed dismissively . |