Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 2 | We made better use of NHS resources than ever before . |
| 3 | Our first problem at Llandrindod Wells was to estimate the numbers coming to the lake , so each night during the spring we made hourly circuits of the lake collecting all the toads we encountered . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ We made special checks of the train stations to make sure the commuters got their copies . ’ |
| 5 | In fact , we made considerable use of hypercorrection phenomena of this kind in preparing our phonological analysis . |
| 6 | When Glen Baxter came for a signing session , we sold 80 copies of his book — a modest number perhaps for a shop of this size , but sales of his ‘ spin-off ’ goods amounted to a further 40% of the shop 's turnover that day and brought us some 16% over our sales target for that week . |
| 7 | Profits are lower and earnings are lower than last year , but cash generation which we 've been working particularly hard on er for the past couple of years er and which we will be talking about further in a minute has come through extremely well er and we produced higher levels of cash this year than at any time in the company 's history . |
| 8 | To prove this , we produced two series of recombinants in which the mutations depicted in Fig. 4A were introduced by site directed mutagenesis into recombinant Δ1 ( Fig. 1 ) , containing 741 bases of the promoter region . |
| 9 | THE Western Tour commenced at Winnipeg , where we experienced four days of temperature ranging from -28C to -35C . |
| 10 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 11 | We passed giant slabs of ice which had buckled up into a cracked swelling over a rock and saw ice discs spinning on the surface of the water like root-less lily pads . |
| 12 | Although we passed 60 tanks of Serbian-dominated federal forces parked near the Bosnian border , it is the ruthless veterans of the eastern Croatian conflict who are leading the Serbian offensive in the mountainous republic . |
| 13 | Thus , in the present study we evaluated gastric clearance of indigestible markers , orocaecal transit time , colonic transit time , and gall bladder contraction in two groups of diabetic patients who differed as to whether they had or did not have signs of autonomic neuropathy affecting the cardiovascular system . |
| 14 | But we asked another question of the core audience to Radio 4 during the Gulf War coverage . |
| 15 | We got all kinds of people shooting stuff for us out there . |
| 16 | See if we got that bottle of whisky got a bottle of Bells . |
| 17 | I was slightly alarmed when we got that copy of the Tipton Times , and there was a fire inside it , begging people to come forward for the er |
| 18 | We got two tins of those now . |
| 19 | We got two presentations of most of the stuff too . |
| 20 | We got 91 litres of unleaded in the tank today , which at French prices does n't encourage a tranquil response . |
| 21 | we got four types of reaction using first H C L okay so write that in using first H C L then H N O three then H two S O four . |
| 22 | We got joint custody of the children . |
| 23 | Then the soldiers started coming back after the war , and we got new members of staff — earnest young men who got all intense about everything . |
| 24 | Every month , we got this cost of living , course it did n't er it did n't er fluctuate like it did in more recent years , but it was a safeguard and we always got increases on top of that like piece work increase and and er it it was a it was a good union , it you know . |
| 25 | But they make me die because you , you you 're a day , I mean we got this sort of letter the bailiffs were coming in because we were a day late . |
| 26 | We got attention straight away , we got some kind of profile very easily . |
| 27 | The only occasions on which we got fleeting moments of commitment were ones where I or my British colleagues were present and involved . |
| 28 | Overseas Contracting performed well due to the Kosice contract in Slovakia where we laid 118,000 tonnes of asphalt from July to November and successfully completed our first asphalt runway in Eastern Europe . |
| 29 | This is a Greek work for love , and so instead of celebrating the eucharist , we shared this meal of love and friendship which brought in themes of the past two days — seizing the day . |
| 30 | You might go and collect , oh er what Coliupe Collium , Collium Maculatum , spotted come up , you 'd go and cut it , you know , bring it in , get the Succus Conium that would keep you going , you know , sometimes he would he 'd say Oh blast you , we used two garlands of it . |