Example sentences of "[vb past] we [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord .
2 Hon. Members told us that rural services , emergency services , call boxes and provision for the blind and disabled would all have an uncertain future under privatisation , yet in each case the future has been better , thanks to the privatised industry and the regulatory world that we have created .
3 When we asked her more about her playmate , she told us that Dohti lives in a gypsy caravan , had black hair and eyes and was 11 years old .
4 Erm and Mike told us that new reports commi commissioned by the City Council and the new owners claimed there is no danger .
5 ‘ On November 1 they told us that normal Christmas arrangements would apply — that we would work for most of the holiday period — then they dropped this bombshell on November 22 and said we would be off for two weeks .
6 He told us some harrowing stories of life on a bomber aerodrome which had ‘ main force ’ squadrons , always carrying heavy loads of high explosives and incendiaries , and impressed on us how lucky we were to be on a Pathfinder station .
7 The people 's radio told us more real news , but these days we were too afraid to listen to Colonel Stephens .
8 Fellow cruisers who frequently enjoy holidays at sea assured us that Royal Caribbean is by far the best cruise line to choose .
9 She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds .
10 One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion .
11 It was a very acrimonious occasion and she called us some terrible names .
12 MRS E Barrett , of Wigan , sent us this super snap of great-grandson Keiran doing his Moses impression .
13 Phil sent us this delightful centrefold of star columnists Rob Beattie and Ken Kessler .
14 Instead , the waiter brought us two full glasses of the ‘ green fairy ’ .
15 And there are new techniques being discovered every day — why , the Great War alone brought us many new methods of surgery and medicine . "
16 Sitting in his office , Mr Johnson offered us both cold beers from a pail of water in which a few pieces of ice floated .
17 ‘ They gave us that big build-up .
18 Since the unforgivable primal sin was to be boring , the Victorians gave us intricate wrought-iron work , sculpted columns , mullioned windows , stained glass , mosaic floors , tiled maps , delicate portes cochères , exquisite stone tracery , clock-towers , crenellations , campaniles , wood-panelled booking halls , friezes , glass canopies , triumphal arches , balustrades , gables , chimneys , turrets , spires , drinking-fountains , ornate platform seats , coats of arms , baronial fireplaces , even majestic gentlemen 's conveniences in monumental marble or bold ironwork , a constant and unending source of delight in a craftsmanship at its most complex , painstaking , and delicate .
19 He did not mention the patients charter , but he gave us some other insights into his approach to the problems .
20 ‘ Blufton gave us some important details you did n't know , ’ Blanche continued .
21 Harold gave us some wonderful stuff to keep the slugs off . ’
22 As we said goodbye , her companion , Michel Cantal du Val , the president of Les Amis de Jean-Paul Kauffman , gave us some startling advice about how to convince the British public of the need for the Government to talk to the kidnappers .
23 He made us some fine sets of playing cards and a neat Monopoly board .
24 We got us some good huntin' here , sheriff . ’
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