Example sentences of "[vb past] we a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skipper worked nicely on the flat , so John built us a six inch cross pole to trot over . |
| 2 | Clear skies allowed us to witness , once again , sensational scenery ; the worst storm of the summer only caught us a few hours away from Sasoma . |
| 3 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 4 | I hung a right which cost us a fair amount of starboard body work and a couple of hub caps . |
| 5 | ‘ He looks very comfortable on the ball and scored us a fabulous goal which set up the win . |
| 6 | Mechanics pushed our aircraft into a hangar and machined us a new stud for our exhaust pipe . |
| 7 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 8 | She told us a terrible story . |
| 9 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 10 | According to what Texas Instruments Inc told us a few weeks ago ( UX No 405 ) , it certainly had the chips . |
| 11 | They told us a few months ago . |
| 12 | ‘ Victor told us a grim story on the plane . |
| 13 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 14 | Otley threw us a large towel each and some dry clothes which we changed into like embarrassed children on the beach , then we had a mug of cocoa and a gingerbread man with currant eyes and chocolate buttons down his front . |
| 15 | Annabel , the daughter of a friend , paid us a quick visit from the other end of the country . |
| 16 | Mowbray said : ‘ A few years ago , Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch showed us a two-hour video of Bill Shankly talking about football and life in general . |
| 17 | Dacourt joined us a few minutes later , his white moustache bristling with importance , his face a little more puce . |
| 18 | As we entered the bloated face nodded us a silent greeting . |
| 19 | In the Far East , the Indonesian government awarded us a major contract for the design of a fuel transfer and storage system for their research centre near Jakata . |
| 20 | What I would like to do now is to reintroduce Phill who addressed us a little bit earlier this morning who 's going to tell us a little bit more about enterprise client server solutions . |
| 21 | Despite the lack of firewood , the generally damp conditions and intermittent fever , Habta Mariam , squatting in the open beside his fire with his pots resting on stones , cooked us a good meal every evening . |
| 22 | Our resources were too widely deployed , which gave us stability , but lost us a competitive edge . |
| 23 | And er , it took us a little time to do that but and it was alright , but , well , but she bought us doughnut in company . |
| 24 | It took us a good while to get to the location . |
| 25 | It just took us a long time . ’ |
| 26 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 27 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
| 28 | It only took us a few seconds to realize the mistake but by then twenty-eight kids and three of the missionaries were either dead or dying . |
| 29 | They sent us a bloody cutter |
| 30 | Yeah , and they did , they sent us a whole vanload of , of instruments and I can remember the , the evening we , we put all these instruments in the conference room there and the gang of enthusiasts arrived and , and they said and what would you like to play ? |