Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the Leeds fans we passed going down the M40 looked a bit unsure of the sight — it 's not every match day you see three guys in Leeds clobber driving a green porsche with their Leeds scarf in the back window . |
| 2 | We tried to draw out the kind of changes that might help make the whole thing happen . |
| 3 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 4 | ‘ We tried to fit together the enigmas , of which there were a number . |
| 5 | We tried to play down the tackiness , but it did n't work . |
| 6 | We came to see how the prison is run . |
| 7 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 8 | In the event Mazzin was after the notebooks we 'd stuffed down the front of our pyjamas . |
| 9 | Thus began a 30 minute gag-telling session , doctor gags , hospital gags and funeral gags , until we 'd laughed away the atmosphere . |
| 10 | we happened to go up the stair and er , the door was answered |
| 11 | The pieces we loaned made up the ‘ influence of ’ section , with each piece was a particularly rare and important example of Japonisme as applied to domestic silver , and we shall have some of those pieces displayed for sale at this year 's fair . |
| 12 | As we began to pick up the threads of life in the south once more I found that in my absence from the cutter scene a brand new purpose-built cutter Venturous was operating with great success . |
| 13 | I was astonished when we began walking down the now weed-strewn path to feel a familiar feeling of fear and expectation . |
| 14 | So it was bright and early when , with a clatter of buckets and bowls , we started to swill down the yard . |
| 15 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
| 16 | On arrival Rick and I walked around the lake and chose two likely looking swims towards the bottom end near the dam where we proceeded to set up the carp rods . |
| 17 | As predicted , we did catch up the cold front , refiled IFR and had to climb even further . |
| 18 | When we left to set up the course the total had crept up to about 30 . |
| 19 | We entered the very horse show that we had to sit out the year before . |
| 20 | We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’ |
| 21 | It made us feel as if we had progressed up the Bletchley ladder . |
| 22 | ‘ We had built up the kind of company my father could leave to go off and direct a film for five months without worrying , ’ says Brian . |
| 23 | I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ? |
| 24 | We had to weigh up the bid which the managers put forward against outside bids and they 're never in exactly the same terms . |
| 25 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 26 | ‘ We had to take out the affected computer and rent another . |
| 27 | We had sailed up the brown Tambopata forty kilometres south from Puerto Maldonaldo in a skiff that barely cleared the water . |
| 28 | ‘ However , we had to sort out the speakers too … |
| 29 | We had staked out the war memorial where the secret meeting was destined to occur . |
| 30 | We had brought down the President of France . |