Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [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 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
4 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
5 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
6 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
7 | We made it into the hall , which was actually less crowded , though still full . |
8 | We made it to the Pastukhov rocks without a break and steered left where the slope steepened considerably . |
9 | We made it to the car . |
10 | By the time we made it to the foyer , a panic had started . |
11 | We made it in a factory ( Hollowcore ) using moulded GRG . |
12 | We made it in a smother of white water close inshore towards Buckie . |
13 | But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year . |
14 | His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’ |
15 | And he said good , and here 's ours , and we passed them along the table , and we wrote down two point six , I said excuse me , could I just have that back , there 's a slight typing error , excuse me , sorry twenty-two per cent . |
16 | He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing . |
17 | As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows . |
18 | ‘ I 'd be privileged to help , ’ he said , when we asked him about the display . |
19 | Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’ |
20 | We asked them to the meeting and we look forward to listening to you later on in the agenda . |
21 | We asked you for a letter written by a father to his son admitting that he has some embarrassing or socially undesirable condition . |
22 | We asked you for a diatribe in verse from Neil Kinnock against the Tory press , the short-sighted public , or anyone or anything else he might be against at the moment . |
23 | ‘ As soon as we got him to a doctor — which took some time — it was discovered that Major Maxim must have held the ammonia under our man 's nose while pouring some odourless spirit — quite possibly strong vodka — onto the blindfold in order to produce the stinging sensation . ’ |
24 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
25 | Now I took him into my home , it was an extremely costly thing to do , and eventually we got him into the Chiltern Clinic . |
26 | We got him from the RSPCA and he is my first dog . |
27 | We got him from the Dogs ’ Home and he 's never been very obedient . ’ |
28 | we got him from the rescue , animal rescue you know |
29 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
30 | But we were gon na do it erm , cos we got it on the Tamworth Heralds . |