Example sentences of "we [vb past] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My photographic equipment was a bit limited by the fact that as a leader I was required to carry a heavy hunting rifle all the time we were ashore , just in case we met with a polar bear in a nasty mood . |
| 2 | A few years ago I and my two sons made an amazing discovery — a discovery we shared with a few of our colleagues here . |
| 3 | We managed only one practice session , on a school playing field in St Thomas which we shared with a tense local football match . |
| 4 | We experimented with a new Editor who wrote and commissioned interesting and often controversial articles , but this approach was competitive with the British Sunday press and I discovered that " controversial " can be distasteful . |
| 5 | Instead , we opened with a symphonic version of the ‘ Dead March ’ from ‘ Saul ’ , fading out into the reading of a six-stanza poetic eulogy written for the occasion by a local lady admirer and 1OAB fan . |
| 6 | We started with a clean sheet of paper , we did n't start with one of our earlier proprietary products and try and convert that to Unix , try to move that into the open systems world . |
| 7 | If we started with a clean sheet of paper we would not plan it that way . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ We started with a brainstorming session where all members of the Department threw in their ideas on the areas which needed written procedures . |
| 9 | We ambled with a young German couple to the peak of Værøy , some 650 metres directly above an inaccessible golden beach . |
| 10 | Then we did things like ‘ Love You Till Tuesday ’ which we did with a huge orchestra , as I recall , which was done in another studio . |
| 11 | We dealt with a wised-up kid , a specialist , an urban idiot savant , who wore a thimblelike monocle . |
| 12 | Homebase avoided joining last year 's discount war initiated by Texas and B & Q. Instead we responded with a strong special offer programme supported by more regular national newspaper advertising and more aggressive point of sale material . |
| 13 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 14 | Next day we lunched with a young politician known as the most outspoken critic of Smith and the government . |
| 15 | For Total , we progressed with a long term contract to modify the Alwyn North platform and the St. Fergus gas terminal . |
| 16 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 17 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |