Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made it without much trouble , but it was a different story on our return , when the tide had receded causing the swell to break . |
| 2 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope Elizabeth does n't think we got him like that , ’ worried Betty . |
| 4 | We got it for all the tournament . |
| 5 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 6 | ‘ We designed them for this . |
| 7 | Many of our people sickened and died , and we buried them in this strange land . |
| 8 | ‘ We showed it to some professional scriptwriters and they could n't believe what they were reading . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | We broke it off this afternoon . ’ |
| 11 | But now we want them all shared out so instead of saying one remainder two we writ it like this now . |
| 12 | ‘ We brought him on this tour so he could develop , and I believe he could be the player to hold England 's batting together for the next ten years . ’ |
| 13 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 14 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 15 | But we never really believed that John Major was a sports fan until we saw him on that bleak Sunday afternoon at Stamford Bridge . |
| 16 | Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed . |
| 17 | Won the league above us in 1965 by 0.00001 of a goal difference and yet criticise our 1992 title when we won it by several clear points . |
| 18 | W we tried internment before , it caused a massive escalation of violence cos you never , you get families are angry , it escalates the numbers who are committed to terrorism , last time it was just the Republicans , if we did it on both sides it would just escalate terrorism . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | INTRIGUED BY John Moran 's project , we discussed it in more depth . |
| 22 | We tested it with another type which was the need : the new work needed a leader . |
| 23 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 24 | the other one , so we left it on that channel , channel nine I think it were . |
| 25 | He said , yeah , there has , which came as a great relief to me and we left it at that . |
| 26 | So we left it at that . |
| 27 | So you can take it up with the , the er do whatever he felt necessary , but we left it at that . |
| 28 | They 've taken his dabs and examined the mallet , but we left it at that when we knew the Yard had been called in and you were on your way . |
| 29 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 30 | We , we had them about that . |