Example sentences of "we [vb past] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is time we applied the same reasoning to all . |
| 2 | We got the same taste in ! |
| 3 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 4 | We shared the same interests . |
| 5 | ‘ We shared the same interests , had the same circle of friends . ’ |
| 6 | We shared the same bed , ’ he confessed . |
| 7 | ‘ We shared the same house , but we were n't living together . |
| 8 | I picked him as my friend because he was a quiet , kind boy and we shared the same interest . |
| 9 | Mum has rheumatoid arthritis and , as neither of us could manage the stairs , we shared the same room downstairs . |
| 10 | ALL around Feethams during the Durham-Somerset first day we posed the same question : before leg spinner Ian Salisbury 's inclusion in yesterday 's England squad , which England cricketer last had the same name as an English cathedral city ? |
| 11 | We used the same criteria as the Booker Prize — namely the writer must be from either the UK , Ireland or the Commonwealth . |
| 12 | We used the same phrase once . |
| 13 | He leapt off a regular bus — the excellent airport service seems currently in abeyance , threw himself through the doors and yelled at me to hurry , which I did , and we caught the same bus back into town . |
| 14 | We rejected the former alternative on the grounds that competition can , paradoxically , sometimes be inimical to economic efficiency . |
| 15 | We played the same game every Sunday ; each one in turn pulled down his or her underwear and rotated slowly while the others watched . |
| 16 | he , we shagged the same bird me and Nick , not on the same times but oh I went out with her after he went out with her . |
| 17 | We studied the same subject . ’ |
| 18 | ( We noted the same imputation by Clark ( 1977 : 40 ) in the concluding section of Chapter 6 . ) |
| 19 | Jessica and I met when we joined the same company within a day of each other — both straight from school . |
| 20 | Everyone knew this , but we faced the same problems in increasing efficiency and productivity as in all the other traditional industries like coal and steel . |
| 21 | Bell noted : ‘ We faced the same quandary clubs rapidly going through divisions encounter with their XV-a-side fixture list . |
| 22 | The judge treated this as a separate question concerned with the ambit of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 ; we followed the same course , even though this would seem to require that the question be phrased ‘ and whether , if so , the statement of claim discloses … ’ |
| 23 | When Ann and I first visited this area , we followed the same route as luckless Montrose , travelling south from Caithness , over the Ord to the Kyle of Sutherland , past Lairg , then up Strath Oykle . |
| 24 | At Canjuers we followed the same routine as at Orange . |
| 25 | Comparing the last two years , Mr Coates said : ‘ We achieved the same result with 900 fewer people . ’ |
| 26 | We heard the same thing when the Labour Government introduced the Equal Pay Act 1970 . |
| 27 | We worked the same routine each day for our practice rounds — some relaxed play on the course and some hard work before and after we went out . |
| 28 | On the 18th tee we hit the same 3-wood , and as we walked down the fairway the crowds were massed around the last green ; the noise was unbelievable . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish we needed the same number of hours ’ sleep , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Because we reinterviewed the same people at different times throughout the year , we were able to divide them into persistent readers of Tory tabloids , persistent readers of Labour tabloids , persistent readers of broadsheets and , finally , those who changed papers or read no paper regularly . |