Example sentences of "we [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those on parenteral nutrition ( n=12 ) we gave the maximum amount of milk the patients were able to ingest without symptoms , and at the end of the test we emptied the gastric content via their gastrostomies . |
| 2 | I have just returned from a NATO meeting last week at which we agreed the military strategy that will accompany the strategic concept now agreed , of which Germany is a prominent supporter . |
| 3 | Heads down , strenuously and determinedly we fought the southerly swell for a couple of hours before arriving at An t-Aigeach , a wild though sheltered inlet , respite , complete with deer , a heron and a live floating urchin . |
| 4 | ‘ Er , we met the other day . |
| 5 | After 100 miraculous kilometres we met the other bus returning to Francistown . |
| 6 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 7 | We met the little boy who believes that all the inhabitants of an Arab village should be exterminated . |
| 8 | Whenever we cycled to work , or indeed from work , we met the full force of that malevolent wind . |
| 9 | " After we ran away from you we travelled as far as Quang Nam — that 's where we met the French recruiter who arrived here tonight with your truck , " said Dong hesitantly . |
| 10 | It is time we applied the same reasoning to all . |
| 11 | To obtain a relaxed template , we incubated the supercoiled plasmid with topoisomerase I under the same ionic strength conditions used in the transcription assays . |
| 12 | We got our first publishing contract through that , but we were just signing as songwriters and we made the odd grotesque , poppy single ! |
| 13 | It was then that we made the surprising discovery that the Sultan , " the Great Mountain " , is officially married to Loro Kidul . |
| 14 | ‘ Where are you sleeping ? ’ she asked as we made the front door . |
| 15 | ‘ We made the front page ! ’ he exulted , holding the rag up so that I could see the headline : ‘ WOMAN DIES AT THEATRE ROYAL . |
| 16 | ‘ I think we made the right decision , but it is a grey area . |
| 17 | Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly . |
| 18 | I did n't really wake up until we made the short boat trip to Ellis Island . |
| 19 | We 'd have got away with it if we had noticed that the polystyrene tiles had slipped out of alignment — but having shifted dozens of tanks around we made the fatal error of complacency and did n't check the underlay . |
| 20 | erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis |
| 21 | Now if we sold the whole lot we 're gon na struggle a bit . |
| 22 | Being tight-fisted individuals we by-passed the fee-paying nature trail through the woods and crossed the beck to join a Green Lane that led pleasantly back to Clapham and the end of a fine day 's trek through Yorkshire 's classic karst and pavement country . |
| 23 | We led the bedraggled procession through the meadow and up to the dig where Nigel 's mature students were hard at work sifting , sorting and cataloguing . |
| 24 | Neal insisted that the bunker was a " command and control facility " and asserted : " We do n't feel like we attacked the wrong bunker or made a mistake . |
| 25 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 26 | There was a storm as we passed the southern tip of Cuba , and the ship I was on was smashed on to offshore rocks by the weather . |
| 27 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 28 | We did n't go into we passed the leaning tower of Pisa . |
| 29 | It just seemed to go all wrong when we passed the big rock . ’ |
| 30 | Invited to Direct Line 's impressive new headquarters in Croydon , Surrey to meet founder and chief executive Peter Wood , we asked the obvious question : can such spectacular expansion continue indefinitely ? |