Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we made it in four hours , door to beach to door : bury Mum 's feet in the sand , forget they 're there , plunge spade into sand and come close to severing three toes . |
| 2 | She continued : " We failed you in 1938 when a disastrous policy of appeasement allowed Hitler to extinguish your independence . |
| 3 | We got ours in 1956 , and the filmed reports of the Hungarian uprising and of its refugees arriving in Britain gave me my first image of dramatic world events . |
| 4 | Many of our people sickened and died , and we buried them in this strange land . |
| 5 | We heard it in nineteen eighty and we heard it again in nineteen eighty seven in pursuance of the House Builders Federation 's er views . |
| 6 | However she did not work in isolation of the sales figures and shop reports , which she read avidly and , as she wrote to Moira : ‘ I feel that we hit it in many respects but we do n't seem to repeat the exciting things fast though . ’ |
| 7 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 8 | But we called them in Welsh do you see . |
| 9 | Delegates , this resolution is about uniting all of the unions in the public sector , after all we did it in nineteen seventy nine and as we all know that was against our Labour government , with one aim , to reject this government 's pay policy and to combine and fight for a pay increase which we 'll endeavour to counter the savage attacks which are being made against public service workers . |
| 10 | Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first |
| 11 | We did it in two plaits with huge white bandage bows . |
| 12 | I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’ |
| 13 | The distance was eleven miles and we did it in two hours . |
| 14 | Yeah , I go to Mrs , erm can we fish , sharing lists I ga , you know , I think it 'll be easier if we did it in twos , and Becky goes why ? |
| 15 | We did it in twenty minutes flat . |
| 16 | We 've got it , we bought it in good faith and we 're keeping it |
| 17 | Nobody told us that these pesticides were being used , they just sprayed away , put the fruit and veg on sale — and we bought it in all innocence . ’ |
| 18 | Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families . |
| 19 | Well we decided , decided what we w , what the object was , and then , we got into a position that certain cards so , the cards were split between u , the two of us , so we aimed it in different directions . |
| 20 | We convinced him in Holy Week . |
| 21 | INTRIGUED BY John Moran 's project , we discussed it in more depth . |
| 22 | . We had it in all ways , shapes and forms . |
| 23 | So what have we done , we 've put the money into ten lots of five pound now okay so we got fifty pounds let's say we had it in five pound notes . |