Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She continued : " We failed you in 1938 when a disastrous policy of appeasement allowed Hitler to extinguish your independence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in . |
| 5 | Yeah , they we got them for thirty so mind you |
| 6 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 9 | Well we dredged them from nineteen twenty five to nineteen thirty two . |
| 10 | We helped them with three posts yeah aye , on your plate |
| 11 | We could not agree more with that ; we proposed it on 13 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Everybody joined arms and a bottle of whisky was passed round ; we finished it between twelve of us in two or three minutes . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 16 | He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | To open the walnuts we placed them on one stone and hammered with another . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We investigated it for one of our earlier dictionaries as it seemed quite economical on space . |
| 21 | So we 're just adding the conductances again , and if we did it with three of , we had sort of three pipes |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We did it in two plaits with huge white bandage bows . |
| 24 | I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’ |
| 25 | The distance was eleven miles and we did it in two hours . |
| 26 | Yeah , I go to Mrs , erm can we fish , sharing lists I ga , you know , I think it 'll be easier if we did it in twos , and Becky goes why ? |
| 27 | We did it in twenty minutes flat . |
| 28 | Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families . |
| 29 | And erm we had him on two lots of antibiotics before he even had an anaesthetic to get the inflammation down and I do n't want it to get worse ! |
| 30 | Cos we had it on one |