Example sentences of "we [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 2 | erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis |
| 3 | For example , if we make the last element of unc unity , and partition ( |
| 4 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 5 | I was going to make a song and dance when we got the 100th subscriber , but 98 's near enough . |
| 6 | until we got the first order . |
| 7 | Middle of the following week and we got the first reconciliation yesterday . |
| 8 | It was on one of Mike 's rest days , when I went along with Christophe to do some sound recordings , that we got the first view of what was to become an obsession for Mike and me over the next two and a half years . |
| 9 | ‘ We got the last ring in the shop in my size , ’ said Mrs Williams , who also has fond memories of their wartime honeymoon in Scarborough . |
| 10 | ‘ When we round the next bend , bring your boat to the left bank , Señor Capitano . ’ |
| 11 | We report the first case of a patient with FAP who developed pancreatitis after routine screening and biopsy of the ampulla of Vater . |
| 12 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 13 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going on to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 14 | Here we encounter the first attempt to undo the category of ‘ man ’ , an enterprise which has caused more distress than most in the recent history of the social sciences . |
| 15 | We can see this clearly if we replace the third sentence with another , so that the sequence reads : |
| 16 | Erm we approached the first project we were looking at the information we had available er , looking at the strength of the work a lot of information As you can see the er and , and looking at the er a definite lack of |
| 17 | But , after a glorious day 's exploring , by the time we turned for home the weather had become very wild , and as we approached the first barrier , waves were breaking fiercely over the road . |
| 18 | We stopped the first night at an inn on the banks of a river . |
| 19 | We tried the next couple of villages also before the truth dawned . |
| 20 | We smoke the first bag , throw a heap of indiscriminate clothing together and set off on our long journey to Wales , our bodies leaden and our lids heavy . |
| 21 | We learnt the next day he had had to hand in his uniform and get off the job as fast as he could . |
| 22 | Moreover , if we adopted the first solution and applied it throughout , e would become ( the first three elements have been assumed zero ) unc which is clearly quite unacceptable for the later measurements . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's hard to believe we cut the first sod here only 15 months ago , ’ smiles John , who naturally did n't go into a project like this blind-folded . |
| 24 | When we prepared the Fifth Symphony , we recorded it as a trial , worked on it again , then recorded it properly — sixty hours before we first gave it in public ! |
| 25 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
| 26 | ‘ And as the light fades , we watch the last urine sample of the day being taken slowly back to the laboratory ’ |
| 27 | The power of the Imperial illusion is only properly appreciated when we watch the last phase in the career of a politician 's politician of the first rank , Joseph Chamberlain . |
| 28 | Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August . |
| 29 | The full discussion must wait for Chapter 5 but we can begin to get an insight into how this comes about when we consider the second property of quantum mechanical states . |
| 30 | If we multiply the jth constraint of LPI* by q j and sum over j , and the jth constraint of LPII* by P i and sum over i , where ( q 1 , … , q n ) and are randomised strategies , we obtain . |