Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 32 | We collected them like rare orchids , gleefully sharing our latest acquisitions and discoveries . |
| 33 | However she did not work in isolation of the sales figures and shop reports , which she read avidly and , as she wrote to Moira : ‘ I feel that we hit it in many respects but we do n't seem to repeat the exciting things fast though . ’ |
| 34 | He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five . |
| 35 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 36 | But we called them in Welsh do you see . |
| 37 | I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear . |
| 38 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 39 | We broke it off this afternoon . ’ |
| 40 | But now we want them all shared out so instead of saying one remainder two we writ it like this now . |
| 41 | To open the walnuts we placed them on one stone and hammered with another . |
| 42 | ‘ We brought him on this tour so he could develop , and I believe he could be the player to hold England 's batting together for the next ten years . ’ |
| 43 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 44 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 45 | We took it for forensic tests . ’ |
| 46 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 47 | But we never really believed that John Major was a sports fan until we saw him on that bleak Sunday afternoon at Stamford Bridge . |
| 48 | We saw him at Old Trafford |
| 49 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 50 | Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed . |
| 51 | I am not sure that we would think the dancing , except by some of the principals , quite so wonderful by today 's standards , but we saw it with different eyes then , and John would have for comparison his memories of the Cape Town Ballet Club 's brave but handicapped attempt at the last act of the ballet , Aurora 's Wedding . |
| 52 | We investigated it for one of our earlier dictionaries as it seemed quite economical on space . |
| 53 | Won the league above us in 1965 by 0.00001 of a goal difference and yet criticise our 1992 title when we won it by several clear points . |
| 54 | W we tried internment before , it caused a massive escalation of violence cos you never , you get families are angry , it escalates the numbers who are committed to terrorism , last time it was just the Republicans , if we did it on both sides it would just escalate terrorism . |
| 55 | We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] . |
| 56 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 57 | So we 're just adding the conductances again , and if we did it with three of , we had sort of three pipes |
| 58 | Delegates , this resolution is about uniting all of the unions in the public sector , after all we did it in nineteen seventy nine and as we all know that was against our Labour government , with one aim , to reject this government 's pay policy and to combine and fight for a pay increase which we 'll endeavour to counter the savage attacks which are being made against public service workers . |
| 59 | Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first |
| 60 | We did it in two plaits with huge white bandage bows . |