Example sentences of "[adj] we [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm the club 's President for life — great honour , that — and in 1985 we launched the bi-annual Max Boyce Classic to raise money for improvements . |
| 2 | Well now in nineteen twenty six we had the general strike , and the conditions in Ipswich were so violent that our Borough Police we could n't cope with them , and our Chief Constable , he had to apply to the Home Office and he got permission to have men from East Suffolk and West Suffolk Police , Cambridge County Police , Huntingdon Police sent some , and they were billeted in hotels in the town centre . |
| 3 | For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers . |
| 4 | ‘ He was always very careful about ‘ the company ’ , making sure we had the right attitude . |
| 5 | In Eddie Fenech-Adami 's final rally in Malta in 1981 we had the old stadium in Valetta . |
| 6 | It was for reasons such as these that in June 1981 we used the educational press to invite schools , colleges , and teachers to contact us if they had ‘ undertaken self-evaluation , self-assessment , self-monitoring or curriculum review ’ . |
| 7 | In Chapter 4 we recalled the well-established view that the British electorate came to rely more on television than the press from the late 1950s or early 1960s onwards . |
| 8 | First we ignored the Georgian houses of Spitalfields ; now too much attention may ruin them , says DIXIE NICHOLS |
| 9 | In table VII we compared the observed numbers of cases with those expected for lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas , for all other cancers , and for all cancers combined separately for 1963–83 and 1984–90 . |
| 10 | When I was young we knew the local bobby lived in our midst and we respected him . |
| 11 | In 1974 we had the three-day week , followed by the oil crisis . |
| 12 | In November 1965 we accepted the spartan layout with good grace : ‘ Climbing into the cockpit , one recalls vivid memories of the old Ace , and very little seems changed . |
| 13 | ‘ At the Paris show in 1965 we started the complete story of the Pininfarina-designed mid-engined V6 Dinos and V8 Ferraris . |
| 14 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 15 | Next we had the big race of the day , the PML Lightning Novices Steeple Chase , worth over £10,000 to the winner . |
| 16 | Next we searched the entire barn for anything sharp — nails sticking out of the walls , for example — that might cut or harm them . |
| 17 | Next we considered the major alternative form of economic system , namely a socialism based on Marxism . |
| 18 | At last we reached the great Convent of Syon , its gleaming white stone crenellations peeping above a green fringe of trees . |