Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 About time we got rid of some of this !
2 After luncheon we went to look at some watercolours in which she is interested at Agnew 's , in Bond Street .
3 The last-night party , a hallowed Easter Course tradition , was studded with starts of the highest calibre ; we were richly entertained throughout the evening by acts that were all professional to the core , even if we did see through some of the flimsy disguises .
4 We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world .
5 We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright .
6 We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January .
7 We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready .
8 We found in the interviews that once we had got beyond some version of this public model of management , managers attempted to humanize this by drawing on metaphors from their own experience and inner resources .
9 But , if we had bought in some sort of penal clause , then I mean firms might be inclined to look very critically at the qualifications their engineers have got .
10 We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent .
11 erm We had to look for some lower riders and erm Tony Primmer of course comes in at four , which helps us immensely .
12 As Dan stated , ‘ The target was under a patch of woods that looked like all the other woods around , so we had to drop on some co-ordinates by a railway track .
13 We could grasp that he was trying to tell us we had arrived at some sort of geological shift , much like the Wallace Discontinuity east of Bali , where two tectonic plates meet and flora and fauna are different on the two opposed sides .
14 We sat shaking for some minutes before regaining sufficient composure to drive on .
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