Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
2 | Can I suggest as , as we , we start the document , that we have a copy of the procedure we 're discussing open , because I think most of us in debate and discussion proper if we made our own procedures , things that we hear about . |
3 | ‘ In addition , we shipped more than 13,000 of our low-cost MicroSparc-based desktop workstations , and we made our initial shipments of the new Sparccenter 2000 enterprise server products . |
4 | It was in Geo-related work that we experienced our greatest problems during the year , leading to the closure of our Scottish and Billingham offices , and the reduction of Warrington from two offices to one . |
5 | We asked him many questions , and finally Johann gave us the information we wanted . |
6 | We asked our principal carers to talk about how they felt as a result of looking after ( or helping to look after ) the dementia sufferer . |
7 | For , as Neil Bartlett points out , that nice little word was corrupted long before we got our sticky fingers on it . |
8 | We got our local papers , are n't there any in there ? |
9 | Richard Barker said that Waterstones was pleased with the popularity of its own-brand vouchers : ‘ We relaunched our own vouchers in 1992 , and they sold very well . |
10 | He liked us better when we shared his active pursuits . |
11 | We shouted our biological achievements at each other as if nothing else mattered . |
12 | and it was really a happy life , I enjoyed that and then when they , we found them all jobs . |
13 | We found him thirty levels down , bound and drugged . ’ |
14 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
15 | The late afternoon sun fell on the table as we ate our individual quiches and dandelion salad . |
16 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
17 | Once we reached the banks of the reedy Frystetjorn Lake , over 1,700ft above sea level , we rested our weary bodies . |
18 | We hauled our weary bodies into the kitchen and make token gestures towards having breakfast . |
19 | There was the usual extra food for Christmas and we allowed ourselves three slices of bread each for breakfast instead of two . |
20 | Negotiations complete , we sardined our dismantled bikes into the Cessna . |
21 | We showed him two films , and gave him evidence of change in the motives of men affecting trouble spots and putting things to rights , socially and politically in many parts of the world . |
22 | Habituating a community of chimpanzees — gaining their acceptance as we followed their daily movements through the forest , and learning to recognise the animals as individuals — took us five years . |
23 | SO WE CONTACTED YOUR DIRTY TRICKS DEPARTMENT AND THEY AGREED TO SEND YOU ! ! ! |
24 | We got them to show us Moonstruck three times , enjoying it more each time as we anticipated our favourite scenes . |
25 | We arranged it two days or three days and each was cancelled |
26 | We thought we heard their high-pitched whistles at times but , knowing that the mynahs on Praslin mimic the parrots accurately , we could n't be sure . |
27 | ‘ Daddy 's hurting Mummy , ’ he shouted , and we heard his descending sobs as he ran down the stairs to Nonni . |
28 | My Working Group co-operated very well together , and we enjoyed our weekly meetings . |
29 | To the half amused , half concerned stares of the long frustrated queue of skiers , we shouldered our crippling packs and joined the snow-ploughs , grinding slowly up the hill . |
30 | By the time we collected him two weeks later he had grown considerably . |