Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our first problem at Llandrindod Wells was to estimate the numbers coming to the lake , so each night during the spring we made hourly circuits of the lake collecting all the toads we encountered . |
| 2 | In winter the bare trees were florid with the purple and grey of pigeons , and in spring we buried dead baby sparrows under the soapsuds of fallen blossom . |
| 3 | To assess the potential contribution of lamina propria lymphocytes to measured metabolism we obtained peripheral blood lymphocytes from the heparinised blood of a patient having colonoscopy for polyp surveillance with centrifugation in Lymphoprep ( Flow Laboratories , Rickmansworth , UK ) . |
| 4 | As a result we saw human nature at its best , with so many people rallying around those in need of help . ’ |
| 5 | In the last chapter we introduced two notions of equity : horizontal equity , or the equal treatment of equals , and vertical equity , the redistribution from the ‘ haves ’ to the ‘ have-nots ’ . |
| 6 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 7 | But then the good old American public elected Nixon so here you had Al Capone in the White House and these same political scientists wrote books saying hey hang on , when we said more power to the president we meant more power for our kind of president , you know , Jack , you know , and L B J and the boys , not this Nixon , Tricky Dicky character . |
| 8 | To characterize the DNA-binding specificity of the divergent pou[c] protein we expressed pou[c] cDNA in E.coli as a fusion to glutathione S-transferase ( GST ) and performed gel mobility shift assays ( GMSA ) with the affinity purified fusion protein ( 52 ) . |
| 9 | In Britain 's heyday we provided financial subsidies as well ; but though we have retained our fighting abilities , as was demonstrated by the Falklands Campaign , the decline in our resources relative to the superpowers now limits our influence and inhibits our quest for the greatest possible measure of national independence . |
| 10 | Wool we had big bales of wool come in and once wool was packed together and banded , that was heavy . |
| 11 | Thus , in the present study we evaluated gastric clearance of indigestible markers , orocaecal transit time , colonic transit time , and gall bladder contraction in two groups of diabetic patients who differed as to whether they had or did not have signs of autonomic neuropathy affecting the cardiovascular system . |
| 12 | In this study we classified rectal sensations elicited by isobaric distensions according to the segmental steady state values obtained . |
| 13 | In this study we investigated colonic motility in children with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction . |
| 14 | Before the study we obtained informed consent from all subjects . |
| 15 | In our previous study we performed simultaneous flow cytometric analysis of HLA-DR expression and propidium iodide exclusion to show that the effects of the drugs were not the result of impaired viability . |
| 16 | In this pilot study we showed that self monitoring of hypertriglyceridaemia in patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus improved lipid profiles over six months . |
| 17 | We achieved that in a previous study , and before this study we showed these conditions with a vaginal ultrasonic probe during distension series of the rectum ( unpublished data ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll see you in the same pub we used last time . |
| 19 | But er then there was erm a desk we had big stools and poor old was trying desperately to get me to add correctly you see , and he 'd he 'd let me add and then he 'd always find there was a mistake in it and he 'd try to tell me why . |
| 20 | For lunch we had damp oat-cakes we 'd bought at the village shop . |
| 21 | All the examples continue the work we began last month by featuring double stops that have been derived from chords . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In a previous issue we featured global warming . |
| 24 | Because of the uncertainty surrounding this important issue we undertook this study , looking at a much larger number of patients and measuring several indices of oesophageal function . |
| 25 | On the morrow we added three mules ( and their muleteers ) : Llacen , a wizened old man , Hussein , a lively character , and young Omar , all tousled hair and grin , who made the entire trip in flip flops ! |
| 26 | When extracts from the HeLa cervical epithelial cell line were used in this assay we observed two complexes as in our previous experiments ( Figure 2b ) . |
| 27 | Every dance we saw that day had the flavour of a different influence . |
| 28 | In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives . |
| 29 | In the second half we had 2 headers/shots off the line within 1 minute . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ The market is definitely thawing out from the big freeze we experienced last year , and it is thawing out from the bottom up . |