Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Engineers ' Hall we listened to experts like D. A. D. Reeve , chief executive of the Severn Trent Water Authority , D. Gaulter , director general of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors , and W. T. Devenay , director of water , Strathclyde Regional Council . |
| 2 | With the pilots ' help we telephoned Porto to find that there was CB activity forecast for the rest of the day . |
| 3 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 4 | It was n't like that at my hubby 's last Kirk , telling you the Young Mothers ' Meeting we had there was Really Radical . |
| 5 | Mrs Goreng was able to make it sound quite romantic — good copy for the female journo from the up-market us ladies ' magazine-so we heard about the Spice and Sandalwood Trades , the black Portuguese , and then an interracial love story which Mrs Goreng had invented herself . |
| 6 | During our efforts to spread our ideas about girls ' work we encountered much anti-lesbianism , while at the same time we began to be challenged about our racism by Black women , among whom were some out Black lesbians . |
| 7 | It meant that my mother 's workload greatly increased , but with my uncles ' help we struggled on . |