Example sentences of "[vb past] we [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said we 'd receive eighty cents a day for six hours work and promised us good food , good houses to live in . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He told us other rises throughout the country have averaged around 50 per cent . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He was very friendly and told us other people , but no couples , had come forward claiming to be in his picture . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | We walked the town walls , whilst Jessie Young told us breathtaking stories of battered Berwick 's stormy history . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Standard English caused us enormous problems . |
| 9 | Ev well I do n't know about this year mind but every Christmas I worked there she never paid us double time for anything over Christmas , she was always bought us a present . |
| 10 | The journey was uneventful enough ; nights spent in some local hostelry , priory or convent where Queen Margaret 's influence and the Cardinal 's letters obtained us free food and clean but hard beds . |
| 11 | Sometimes the big girls bullied us little ones and made us hand over our teatime bread or evening biscuit . |
| 12 | Jack , who has been breeding ferrets for more than forty years , showed us soft focus shots of brown ferrets , white ferrets , ferrets eating mice and ferrets building their nests in old Athletico programmes . |
| 13 | Seeing us working for what they thought must be a good cause , they said , they handed us considerable sums of money . |
| 14 | Regis and Gary Bannister were both denied at close range before MacDonald spared us extra time with a rising 25-yarder which found the top left corner of Steve Sherwood 's net . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Clinton put his goblet down on the table , bade us good night and walked softly away . |
| 17 | He told us to sit down and served us vinegar-tasting wine . |
| 18 | And mis the the constructors here they loaned us different equipment and we worked from Monday to Friday getting the things ready we worked all day Saturday doing the show , and we worked all day Sunday clearing the field ! |
| 19 | Time 's tangles took us different ways apart , |
| 20 | picket , and when they go out we all come back , reject work , such and such a component were missing , they sent us different components through |
| 21 | Diesel park West sent us incredible demo tapes , but I would not do a deal without seeing them perform live. , |
| 22 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 23 | How hot summers brought us stripped pines : Scientists now believe a dramatic loss of conifer needles which struck West German forests may have been caused by the weather , rather than pollution . |
| 24 | There were cakes and custards and home-made bread and teacakes , when people brought us fresh yeast from Barnard Castle . |
| 25 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 26 | The pair ignored us completely and gave us superb views of yet another extremely rare endemic bird of the Seychelles . |
| 27 | Our morning walk along the cliffs gave us terrific views of the secluded white sand bays dotted along the coastline followed by a few hours on Pompièrre beach where the locals meet to picnic . |
| 28 | Naturally , for the people who gave us oral fixation and penis envy , among other contributions to psycho-babble , this is far too simplistic an idea . |
| 29 | We were taken into a small chapel and some Spanish border guards gave us hot coffee and bread . |
| 30 | The only thing you can say is that DB gave us good service and for this we should be grateful . |