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 .
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