Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 The errors we made in the 1960s and 1970s can , and are , being corrected .
2 Well , we 've got a couple that we made in the fifties .
3 We got about a hundred napkins upstairs .
4 We checked on the five french windows that opened on to the playground , noted the survival of the wash-house and , on walking to the side of the school and round the back , found the original planks that constituted the vieille planche intact .
5 Now we did go through dramatic exercises in the nineteen sixties , erm where we entered into a three year agreement er on wages settlement at national level .
6 We drew from the four books ( two double volumes ) and took the occasional snippet from our fellow adaptors .
7 We referred to the 1992 NOP survey which indicated that 13,000,000 people wished to relocate to a rural area , and that this created a powerful demand which would be difficult to satisfy even if the provision of housing was completely unconstrained .
8 Cos we moved to ninety five , was n't built when we moved into a hundred and eleven
9 a hundred and eleven was a three bedroom house , then we moved into a four bedroom house did n't we
10 We moved into a two bedroom house , but it 's only up the road at you know , you 're really not very far away are you ?
11 So we moved round every three or at the most four years , and er we we 've been up in Scotland and er Yorkshire , Lancashire , and down East Anglia .
12 We concentrated on the three largest groups of workers in the oil industry ( ‘ oil workers ’ ) in northern Scotland in the late 1970s : construction workers of the oil terminal at Sullom Voe ( Shetland ) ; construction workers of the Flotta oil terminal ( Orkney ) ; and offshore workers on rigs and platforms .
13 ‘ That is a model we tried in the 1960s , and it failed , ’ she said .
14 Pausanias does not consider the authorship of the metopes , but the difference of approach we noticed between the two groups corresponds so exactly to the difference between the gables that we can safely postulate one designer for the sculptures at each end of the building ; but can it be one man who designed both ?
15 I think about these things because they were domestic economies that we practised in the 1950s .
16 It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia .
17 He said : ‘ The selection committee is multi-racial and we came with the 30 best players we could pick .
18 And the first was a twelve volt but then we came to a hundred and ten so I just strung it down along the two top wires of the fence and they were live and oh there were about six or nine hen houses attached to the fence with those wires for electricity .
19 We climbed for an hour-and-a-half and I can tell you that going up a mountain on skins is not as easy as it looks .
20 His jobs tax would cost 50,000 jobs ; his strikes charter would cost jobs and lose orders ; the sweatshop mentality on the Opposition Front Bench would risk losing the 450,000 jobs that have come in ; their minimum wage policy would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs ; and the abolition , one way or another , of the trade union legislation that we have produced would reintroduce the difficulties that we faced in the 1960s and 1970s .
21 Is he further aware that last week we heard of a thousand signalling faults on British Rail followed by this further terrible accident in the Severn tunnel , involving signal faults and negligence yet again ?
22 To investigate this ability of different recombinant GGFs to be secreted , we determined for the two human cDNA clones the distribution of total expressed GGF ( Schwann cell mitogenic ) activity between cell lysate and conditioned medium after transient mammalian transfections ( Table 2 ) .
23 We focused on the two newspapers owned by the same person , Rupert Murdoch , and which included the most rape reports — thirty-two in the Sun and seventy-two in the News of the World in which not one rape case in 1978 was covered by both newspapers .
24 We worked from the 11 short sections in each case , as in the analysis of Fig.1 .
25 We hit about a hundred miles per hour minimum within seconds and hold it .
26 That was what we targeted during the four days prior to the Cardiff match .
27 So the brain we talked about the two hemispheres the left and the right hemisphere the fact that the left is very much involved in a a linear way whereas the right is involved in spatial way , anybody remember the relative contribution of the two halves ?
28 It 's like the same issue we talked about the three year plan projects if necessary we 'll have to slow down on some of the projects , certainly to get through this budget year intact .
29 So when we got overseas course we flew with the Ninety Second Bomb Group the Three Two Six Squadron and er all we were pretty well into our missions , I would say about six , seven , eight .
30 We decided on a 25 mile circuit from Fishguard through the Presely Hills which offered a mixture of bare hillsides , wooded valleys and pastoral scenes of hedgerows and farms .
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