Example sentences of "we [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we rode the four miles to Wuthering Heights , he kept asking me questions about his new home , and the father he had never seen . |
| 2 | ‘ During the time we had the picture in our possession , in an attempt to keep it off the international art market we consulted the criminal police , and attempted to put the picture on the index of important works of art which can not leave Germany . |
| 3 | We consulted the acknowledged experts in the field , many of whom were not known to the general public ; and for the most part we did little more than synthesise their conclusions in a readily digestible fashion . |
| 4 | We made the following comments on such expectations . |
| 5 | We made the necessary arrangements with the owner and viewed it the next day . |
| 6 | If the right hon. Gentleman begins to listen to what many employers elsewhere in Europe are saying , he will learn that they recognise that we made the right decisions . |
| 7 | We made the non-slip surfaces by stippling the tops with a bass broom — a fairly new one works best . |
| 8 | Because this , erm , I think it 's quite far-reaching to erm get all hot on this , and I do n't think we realised the full implications . |
| 9 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 10 | If we passed the regular tests , we were then allowed to draw the whole figure from casts and heads fro life . |
| 11 | We passed the last houses , the last streetlights . |
| 12 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 13 | We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it . |
| 14 | We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it . |
| 15 | We are all here to support genuine asylum seekers ; that is why we tabled the new clauses . |
| 16 | ‘ We got the two goals back , but you have to stop them at the other end as well . |
| 17 | It is not true that certain other events or conditions might have occurred such that we got the solar conditions but not last night . |
| 18 | Yeah but what I 'm saying when we got the thermal boxes you put the stuff in this big fridge er in here |
| 19 | We shared the same interests . |
| 20 | ‘ We shared the same interests , had the same circle of friends . ’ |
| 21 | We reviewed the mycobacterial isolates obtained from the tuberculosis laboratory of the Royal Free Hospital during the period January 1991 to October 1992 . |
| 22 | We entered the public gardens that surround the Royal pavilion . |
| 23 | The scaffold there was the first thing I clapped my eyes on when we entered the stinking streets of Paris . |
| 24 | The production of ferrous iron , hydroxyl ions and bicarbonate should all favour siderite formation To learn whether microbial Fe(III) reduction played a role in siderite formation , we analysed the microbial populations in a concretion and in two host-sediment samples from the marsh . |
| 25 | It was a week later , and feeling increasingly more desperate , that at the suggestion of Werner Meyer we visited the isolated hamlets of Bira and its neighbour Kasuso , on the south-eastern tip of the peninsula . |
| 26 | We visited the public baths ( hot springs ) and walked around the different quarters of the very pretty old town . |
| 27 | And so we used the small weapons we had . |
| 28 | In the first place , we had to come to know each other , to establish a community of interest , and so we used the early tours and concert schedules to play through the orchestra , s main repertory . |
| 29 | We used the same criteria as the Booker Prize — namely the writer must be from either the UK , Ireland or the Commonwealth . |
| 30 | We invited the principal investigators from the remaining 7 trials to participate in this analysis and they agreed . |