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 .
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