Example sentences of "we [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got .
2 er the coach to er to er Bowness on the bus we took thirty nine pound erm with discount from last year people who er bought some last Christmas we made twenty three pound on that the library , only thirty pence course , we 've had trouble with the library because we ca n't leave it here now and er so that 's why it 's s so low the , the income .
3 We led all four majors and won the Kemper Open again , as well as the Las Vegas Invitational .
4 Yeah we got , we got all four hours a night .
5 It 's been mentioned , I think it was Councillor mentioned about the , he was pleased to see that we got two million pound in interest receipts against the eight hundred thousand that was envisaged .
6 We got two two presents ?
7 It ai n't a bad night look we got thirty eight pence on label and it was twenty nine .
8 Well and so it split the Labour Party and the from er at that time you know we got five hundred members in with the Labour Party .
9 We 've actually been successful in that again because we 've got , last year I think we got six thousand pounds , and this year we 've been told we can have eighty percent of the same again .
10 We got married 10 weeks later .
11 Thereafter things improved ; we got several thousand corners while Arse got none at all .
12 Well Sylv , we had the Boggle out yesterday and we got twenty four words !
13 we got twenty nine pounds summat off
14 Well , in the same way , you see , when we lent six thousand pounds , they paid up back over a ten year period .
15 Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving .
16 Er there was a lady fell over about two months ago on that footpath just at the beginning of the winter , and the cathedral council offered to pay for the installation of a light and what we did we contributed seventy seven pounds which is sixty including V A T to enable a second light to be installed because of the two steps on that footpath , one at each end , erm
17 When we moved some six years later to a small town again , in Berkshire , I found I was more competent in the three Rs than any other school child of my own age .
18 We visited all 4 libraries in our area , and copied the lists .
19 We expect 7.5 million orders to be issued against people in England .
20 Erm we want the tie up we want this two pi what is how does two pi come into it ?
21 from the first , an Australian marathon runner , take out the first two letters of his forename. from the second , an American sprinter , we want another two letters , this time the first two from his surname .
22 We want three hundred people by the end of this year because the business we 've already got just waiting to be done in phenomenal .
23 We found five thousand pounds on your husband 's body , Mrs Abberley .
24 Now , we have a balance as it already tells you er , in er earlier in the paragraph of this paper that that we had a er balance of sixteen thousand pounds a , in the ministry last year so , if we knock sixteen thousand pounds
25 We hope that two initiatives by government this year , will help to change that .
26 The Public Sector Borrowing Requirement , to eliminate which we put two million people out of work , drained our resources at a rate of P£300 a year : the equivalent of an electricity bill .
27 Yeah we put twenty four hours and then coloured in half
28 We put these two expansion proposals through the ICI board while the divisional chairman was away .
29 Now if we put these two parameters on here , we end up with only a small proportion of patients who actually have high pressure and low flow .
30 So we put ten five pound notes round this very big table and then we 're saying now you 've a hundred and fifty people I do n't know how you managed to get into this room .
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