Example sentences of "we [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes we made shelters with leaves and branches to keep off the rain . |
| 2 | Anyway , we became friends of sorts . |
| 3 | We became connoisseurs of obstacles . |
| 4 | We got loads of tins of that did n't we ? |
| 5 | ‘ We did once and we got loads of comments — Liz even got chased down the road by a tramp ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When our case was originally rejected we got calls from authorities all over the country saying ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . ’ |
| 7 | And its suggested ‘ activities ’ , like rearing silkworms , bore no resemblance to our gang meetings , where we planned raids on greenhouses , smoked cigarette ends picked up in the street or watched Brian Fish eat a live worm . |
| 8 | We reported 0–60mph in 5.5secs , and 0–120 in only 23.2secs . |
| 9 | In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible . |
| 10 | In one of the rooms we found trunks of clothes . |
| 11 | On the other side of the peninsula we found colonies of seals and penguins . |
| 12 | In our study , gender was taken account of in the selection of workshops : we studied workshops with men only , with women only , workshops where men and women did the same work and were paid at the same rate , and those where the sexes did different jobs and men were paid more than women . |
| 13 | As soon as last year 's Sale was over we received offers of books etc. , and , as I hope you would expect , we refused none . |
| 14 | We organized courses for women trade union leaders . |
| 15 | They asked how we linked words with objects . |
| 16 | We spent £79million on improvements . |
| 17 | Our lack of experienced help showed up again on Sunday afternoon when we lost track of results for a while . |
| 18 | We brought books to Brownies which we read for an hour and we were not allowed to say a word . |
| 19 | cos when he was a baby we took loads of photographs inside . |
| 20 | We took masses of orders , from Paul Smith , Liberty and Whistles , and only when the show was over did we understand what we 'd let ourselves in for . ’ |
| 21 | We were anxious therefore to reduce to a minimum the number of samples where parental choice was unclear so from November 1990 we sent lists of infants untested to the local health district at the end of each month so that parental choice could be checked while the original sample was still usable . |
| 22 | Thus , we chose books about places — or " Places in Books " . |
| 23 | We saw herds of stags and although we never actually walked for a day when we did n't see anyone else , there was a week of walking when we only saw one other person for every day . |
| 24 | We offered prizes in competitions and made donations to charities . ’ |
| 25 | We did 0–60mph in 5secs in the Rocket … drove a Volvo we loved … lived with a Ferrari for a month … built our own Caterham 7 … took a Lamborghini Diablo down a German autobahn at 201.4mph — and test the new Ford Escort , and liked it . |
| 26 | cos we did Box of Tricks eighty six , the year before that we did Cinderella in nineteen eighty five and I started September October eighty four . |
| 27 | We did riding in groups , riding separately . |
| 28 | What we did before , was we did counting in flows and circulating . |
| 29 | Thanks to the support of many members we raised well over £1,200 from which we gave £646 in prizes and had £600 for the Society . |
| 30 | We presented C.C. with displays of alternating red and green pseudorandom shapes ( Fig. 3 ) . |