Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
2 | We met each other at the same art gallery in Milford Haven and the vibe was just right . ’ |
3 | We met each other at the same art gallery in Milford Haven and the vibe was just right . ’ |
4 | On the way we met two patrols with machine guns and my escort had to give what I thought was a password . |
5 | We met next time with me in uniform , and she evacuated with some of her patients to Polegate . |
6 | We met this distinction between controlled and uncontrolled X in Section 6.1 . |
7 | In the first test , we applied acoustic-phonetic constraints by introducing lexical stress into the representations . |
8 | In the second , we applied lexicon-based constraints by implementing an heuristic which preferred longer words over short ones . |
9 | In those days we would always start the hay-making at Hury , a parcel of land we owned two miles down the road . |
10 | At the beginning of Chapter 3 , in Table 3.1 , we divided financial institutions into two groups : those comprising the monetary sector and those which we called non-bank financial intermediaries , now ‘ NBFIs ’ for short . |
11 | or more non-whites , so we divided all areas into those with less or more than 10 per cent . |
12 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
13 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |
14 | Edinburgh district council estimated the cost of clearing the backlog at £25.5 million and we made that allocation to it over a two-year period . |
15 | We made many friends in Lourdes . |
16 | For years we had no telephone , and the house was lit in our time by acetylene gas which we made each evening in the pigsty . |
17 | We made better progress in the canoe , which Ian lent us . |
18 | We made better use of NHS resources than ever before . |
19 | As the right hon. Gentleman pointed out , we made new arrangements on 5 November to ensure that income support payments can be paid directly to the lender . |
20 | So we made this room into a chapel again . |
21 | We made this offer on humanitarian grounds . |
22 | Our first problem at Llandrindod Wells was to estimate the numbers coming to the lake , so each night during the spring we made hourly circuits of the lake collecting all the toads we encountered . |
23 | He added : ‘ We made special checks of the train stations to make sure the commuters got their copies . ’ |
24 | We made special provision for those with haemophilia and HIV because of the special circumstances that are apparent and because of the widespread representations that have been made to us . |
25 | We made special provision for the homelessness problem last year , and my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for housing will be making a further announcement in the next day or two about the homeless figures for which we are making additional provision in the current year . |
26 | We made several stops along the way and arrived at our camp around 4pm . |
27 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
28 | I watched her shuffle , wriggle and avert her eyes while we made stilted conversation about our lives . |
29 | ‘ We always boasted that we made 29 films with one script — now we have made 30 , ’ laughs Peter , 78 . |
30 | Back in January 1980 we made ten predictions about the decade ahead — and offered free resubscription forms to all readers if we scored less than five out of ten . |