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 .
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