Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a " 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 | 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 | His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | We asked you for a letter written by a father to his son admitting that he has some embarrassing or socially undesirable condition . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We got you on a flight out of Dulles via Heathrow the day after tomorrow . |
| 12 | We priced it at a wholesaler price , a retailer price and a con the price of a consumer . |
| 13 | But you are speaking of an occasion some days ago , when we recovered him after an attempt at escape . |
| 14 | To determine whether DP-1 is present in complexes containing Rb , we immunoprecipitated them with an anti-Rb monoclonal antibody from extracts of the human leukaemic cell line JM , which contain high levels of the DRTF1/E2F-Rb complex . |
| 15 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 16 | We helped him to a rock . |
| 17 | We invited them to a service on Remembrance Sunday evening at which their loved one would be mentioned by name . |
| 18 | We caught them with a net and we used to sell them as cage-birds . ’ |
| 19 | We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch . |
| 20 | We approached it with a will to get things done with socialist thinking . |
| 21 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 22 | It seemed beyond belief to start with , we approached it as a trick , a lure , but now ferried confident . |
| 23 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 24 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 25 | We based ours on an example of more than 700 . |
| 26 | To keep the look simple , we teamed it with a short cotton knit skirt , £36 , SML , from Fenn Wright & Manson , but it would look equally good with jeans or leggings . |
| 27 | He rose and staggered out and we followed him into a stinking alleyway a short distance from the tavern . |
| 28 | The carpet sucked the soles of our shoes as we followed him through a drunken , grasping audience towards a small dressing room to the left of the stage , upon which Tanya was enjoying bananas for dessert . |
| 29 | They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that . |
| 30 | ‘ So if we rebuilt it in a more palatial style we could make a real killing when we sold it . |