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Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse !
2	We rode him in a rubber snaffle with a cavesson noseband and provided you did not pull at him , he was as light as a feather .
3	We rode him in a rubber snaffle with a cavesson noseband and provided you did not pull at him , he was as light as a feather . ’
4	But we change it at a company level .
5	Should we regard you as an American artist ?
6	I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire
7	You will remember that we met him in the last commercial .
8	Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned .
9	Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end .
10	Generally it falls , although I 've used as the sub-heading , I suppose the overall title of this area is perception organisation , the way that erm things become organised , how we perceive them as an organised whole .
11	We made it into the hall , which was actually less crowded , though still full .
12	We made it to the Pastukhov rocks without a break and steered left where the slope steepened considerably .
13	We made it to the car .
14	By the time we made it to the foyer , a panic had started .
15	We made it in a factory ( Hollowcore ) using moulded GRG .
16	We made it in a smother of white water close inshore towards Buckie .
17	But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year .
18	‘ We display them on a kind of rotation system , ’ he told her .
19	His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’
20	‘ We make it on the premises , ’ replied the waitress , thawing in the face of Dimity 's enthusiasm .
21	We pat them on the back , as if they were dogs ;
22	" We sell them for a penny each , " Miss Poraway explained .
23	‘ We sell it as a novelty and make people sign a declaration saying they understand it is illegal to use it on the UK phone system .
24	We book them into the Seaview and the Esplanade and give them a comradely nosh-up at the Claremont .
25	And he said good , and here 's ours , and we passed them along the table , and we wrote down two point six , I said excuse me , could I just have that back , there 's a slight typing error , excuse me , sorry twenty-two per cent .
26	He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing .
27	As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows .
28	‘ I 'd be privileged to help , ’ he said , when we asked him about the display .
29	Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’
30	We asked them to the meeting and we look forward to listening to you later on in the agenda .