Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd got fifty people coming , no less counting the women-folk . |
| 2 | LONG before we started telling naive people to take what they were told with a pinch of salt , the Romans were issuing the same advice in the form of ‘ cum grano salis ’ , which was actually a mild pun . |
| 3 | Metabolism of butyrate was optimal at 1 mM ( Fig 3 ) and for this reason we decided to use 1 mM butyrate for the remainder of the study . |
| 4 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 5 | But our Key Person policy compensated us , which kept our backers and creditors happy , and eventually we managed to recruit new people , reorganise and get back on the rails again . ’ |
| 6 | If we did evolve one species into another , why are there no half-fish or half-humans today ? |
| 7 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 8 | We did get some sales , but actually it felt like we were giving the series away . |
| 9 | We had to charge three pence ( old money ) for adults . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember the days , ’ he recalls with an air of maturity which seems strangely at odds with his T-shirt and shorts , ‘ I remember the days at Virgin when we had to see three people in the morning and three people in the afternoon , straight off the street . |
| 11 | We had to get other people to finish off the work . ’ |
| 12 | We had taken 120 carp and 2 cats so the trip could hardly be deemed a ’ cat-astrophe ’ ( sorry but I could n't resist it ) when suddenly one of Rick 's rods was away . |
| 13 | On Wednesday we had improved retail sales figures . |
| 14 | After we had rescued these people we decided to have a look at some other floods . |
| 15 | And we had to pay fifteen quid for the train ticket . |
| 16 | It 's a shame we had to pay 14 quid to watch them . |