Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | We rode him in a rubber snaffle with a cavesson noseband and provided you did not pull at him , he was as light as a feather . |
2 | We rode him in a rubber snaffle with a cavesson noseband and provided you did not pull at him , he was as light as a feather . ’ |
3 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
4 | We made it in a factory ( Hollowcore ) using moulded GRG . |
5 | We made it in a smother of white water close inshore towards Buckie . |
6 | We outclassed them in every department except one , goal-scoring , as their three to our none all too clearly showed . |
7 | We found them in the stables , tending to the horses ; country lads whose constant talk was of saddles , bridles , reins and spurs ; what was good horseflesh and what was n't ; what horses should be fed and when they could drink . |
8 | We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch . |
9 | He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning . |
10 | We buried him in the church beside his mother and little sisters . |
11 | We had the travelling opera roond : we buried them in the field over there . ’ |
12 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
13 | Erm , dum , dum , the market stall as you know , we did n't have it in the market , we had it on the thank goodness because we parked it in the shade , erm during that period we got five hundred and thirty two signatures , with three or four more of you it could of been a thousand , erm we also got fourteen pounds , seventeen in donations , all completely unasked for cos as you know , we do n't take money . |
14 | We hid them in the copper , closed the lid and crept back into the yard , shutting the door carefully behind us . |
15 | ‘ The children brought in dolls , teddy bears , books , games and construction toys and we arranged them in the school hall for the sale . |
16 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |
17 | ‘ So if we rebuilt it in a more palatial style we could make a real killing when we sold it . |
18 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
19 | He immediately rang the Oxford Mission sisters , and by the time we reached them in a taxi they had beds prepared and a doctor called , and in two days Mig was well again . |
20 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
21 | We kept them in a mud-walled hut and posted a guard to keep watch , armed with a can of paraffin . |
22 | We kept her in a box in a back room . |
23 | ‘ So we kept it in the family , ’ he said . |
24 | It did n't , we took it in the front room |
25 | But I think we blew it in a big way . |
26 | Remember this booklet , some of the longer attending members of the G M B will do , we debated it in the conference of the old G M B five years ago . |
27 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
28 | We saw him in the Toy Museum , Rottingdean , |
29 | There are tigers there , and there 's leopards and things called sloth bears , a sort of bear , but they 're actually quite rare so er we did n't see any of those , apart from the rhinos , we went very very quietly crawled under the undergrowth and we saw them in a water hole and they were just bathing there . |
30 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |