Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met her under various guises throughout the islands : with the Bugis pirates in the Moluccas , where we cast offerings into her whirlpool ; and amongst the tribesfolk of Sumba who rely on her signal in the form of the one night each year when Sumba 's beaches briefly swarm with red sea-worm — to initiate their deadly war-sport between lance-throwing armies of mounted warriors . |
| 2 | We asked him for general news . |
| 3 | ‘ To buy a player of Kevin 's experience would cost a fortune but we got him for free . |
| 4 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 5 | ‘ When the merger between AY and Ernst & Whinney came along in 1989 , we welcomed it with open arms because strategically it was very sensible . ’ |
| 6 | But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 7 | Very much on the alert , we followed him into thick bush . |
| 8 | We collected them like rare orchids , gleefully sharing our latest acquisitions and discoveries . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | But we called them in Welsh do you see . |
| 11 | I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear . |
| 12 | We took it for forensic tests . ’ |
| 13 | We saw him at Old Trafford |
| 14 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 15 | I am not sure that we would think the dancing , except by some of the principals , quite so wonderful by today 's standards , but we saw it with different eyes then , and John would have for comparison his memories of the Cape Town Ballet Club 's brave but handicapped attempt at the last act of the ballet , Aurora 's Wedding . |
| 16 | We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] . |
| 17 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 18 | We 've got it , we bought it in good faith and we 're keeping it |
| 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 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 22 | We replaced them by closed stoves or by central heating boilers , which were so much more efficient that they essentially have used the same amount of fuel and we have simply become more comfortable in the process . |