Example sentences of "we [vb past] the [num] [noun] " 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 | ‘ We got the two goals back , but you have to stop them at the other end as well . |
| 3 | We shared the one church , but the mission side of worship was western — the two ways continuing independent , like Roman and Celt in early British Christianity . |
| 4 | To answer the question , whether this fragment is also able to enhance transcriptional activity when ligated to a heterologous promoter , we cloned the 117 bp AvaII fragment ( nucleotides -529 to -412 ) comprising footprint I and region III ( see Fig. 1 ) in sense or antisense orientation into plasmid pBLcat2 , which contains the HSV-tk promoter ( 16 ) . |
| 5 | His hypothesis explains very nicely why we found the three groups , and he has confirmed it by showing that the preferred axes change with position in the visual field in the manner expected . |
| 6 | My players were a different class and we deserved the three points . |
| 7 | Since eighty two er , when we merged the two Pearson public companies we have increased Pearson 's earnings per share and dividends four-fold . |
| 8 | One of the distinctive features of ‘ Documenta IX ’ is the way we selected the 186 artists taking part . |
| 9 | With Werewolf driving the BMW , we covered the two miles to the village of Broughton Street at Warp Factor Five . |
| 10 | The next morning unslept I was up at five but because of rain it was much later when we started the six kilometres ' trail to the larger lake on the reserve . |
| 11 | We started the 91–92 season with 5 wins and 5 draws = 20 points . |
| 12 | After 2 days ' paddling and considerable suspense at last we reached the three corner point with Czechoslovakia/Hungary . |
| 13 | It always makes a change to get away from dreadnoughts , so for a review guitar we chose the SJ-20 model . |
| 14 | After the interval we saw The Two Pigeons with Sandra Madgwick , Michael O'Hare , Anita Landa , and Chenca Williams in the leading roles . |
| 15 | This was the place where we saw the 1:1,000,000 map , but there were none for sale , and in general the airfield was pretty sleepy . |
| 16 | Yeah we saw the seven hills as we drove past Rome because you |
| 17 | ‘ We precipitated the 13 October thing ’ , stated the occupiers , ‘ because we dispute the fact that It belongs to , or is owned by , anyone , or any small group of people . ’ |
| 18 | We won the 1990 Category 2 , Power for Efficiency and Productivity Award , sponsored by the Midlands Electricity Board for the installation of fast fire tunnel kilns . |
| 19 | We introduced the 1990 Food Safety Act to ensure the highest standards of food hygiene . |
| 20 | We mailed the six packages recorded delivery on the 14th of January and sat down to wait . |
| 21 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 22 | We shot the two men at the boat , and the captain shot another man . |
| 23 | I could see her English neighbour shutting her front door in our faces , and yet all the same we left the two children there , rushing away after I 'd pinched their cheeks to make them cry so that she 'd have to come out to them . |
| 24 | Yes , we had the , we had the six foot drop in February do you remember ? were cos we live on a steep hill and |
| 25 | In fact we had the two boys pulling we had th it just as near as possible to the proper thing . |
| 26 | We had we had the two schools , the School and the what we call the Boys School , that was the other one on on the green and it the girl 's school , near this school , you started there as an infant between five and seven . |
| 27 | Thirdly , we had the 1985 Report by the then Association of Health Service Treasurers on managing capital assets in the NHS ( AHST , 1985 ) , in the light of which work is under way at three DHAs on setting up comprehensive asset systems . |
| 28 | And then we had the three bedrooms then . |
| 29 | Roger quickly joined both ropes together and we descended the 300 feet to where I could follow our steps without difficulty to the foot of the crag . |