Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met her under various guises throughout the islands : with the Bugis pirates in the Moluccas , where we cast offerings into her whirlpool ; and amongst the tribesfolk of Sumba who rely on her signal in the form of the one night each year when Sumba 's beaches briefly swarm with red sea-worm — to initiate their deadly war-sport between lance-throwing armies of mounted warriors . |
| 2 | We made it without much trouble , but it was a different story on our return , when the tide had receded causing the swell to break . |
| 3 | Once we made it in four hours , door to beach to door : bury Mum 's feet in the sand , forget they 're there , plunge spade into sand and come close to severing three toes . |
| 4 | She continued : " We failed you in 1938 when a disastrous policy of appeasement allowed Hitler to extinguish your independence . |
| 5 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 6 | We asked him for general news . |
| 7 | ‘ To buy a player of Kevin 's experience would cost a fortune but we got him for free . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope Elizabeth does n't think we got him like that , ’ worried Betty . |
| 9 | We got ours in 1956 , and the filmed reports of the Hungarian uprising and of its refugees arriving in Britain gave me my first image of dramatic world events . |
| 10 | Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in . |
| 11 | Yeah , they we got them for thirty so mind you |
| 12 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
| 13 | No , they 're not really , you got a stand by , you got it for eight fifty , and cos we 're students , instead of eight fifty , we got it for five . |
| 14 | We got it for all the tournament . |
| 15 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 16 | oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ? |
| 17 | Well we dredged them from nineteen twenty five to nineteen thirty two . |
| 18 | We helped them with three posts yeah aye , on your plate |
| 19 | We could not agree more with that ; we proposed it on 13 |
| 20 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 21 | ‘ We designed them for this . |
| 22 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 23 | Many of our people sickened and died , and we buried them in this strange land . |
| 24 | ‘ When the merger between AY and Ernst & Whinney came along in 1989 , we welcomed it with open arms because strategically it was very sensible . ’ |
| 25 | But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We showed it to some professional scriptwriters and they could n't believe what they were reading . ’ |
| 27 | Very much on the alert , we followed him into thick bush . |
| 28 | We heard it in nineteen eighty and we heard it again in nineteen eighty seven in pursuance of the House Builders Federation 's er views . |
| 29 | Everybody joined arms and a bottle of whisky was passed round ; we finished it between twelve of us in two or three minutes . |
| 30 | ‘ We taught them on three levels depending on experience , but people really did seem to enjoy it , ’ said Gill Wootten , a member of Cleveland Clog Dancers . |