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 . ’ |