Example sentences of "we [vb past] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in .
2 Yeah , they we got them for thirty so mind you
3 Well we dredged them from nineteen twenty five to nineteen thirty two .
4 We helped them with three posts yeah aye , on your plate
5 We designed them for this .
6 Many of our people sickened and died , and we buried them in this strange land .
7 We taught them on three levels depending on experience , but people really did seem to enjoy it , ’ said Gill Wootten , a member of Cleveland Clog Dancers .
8 But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’
9 We collected them like rare orchids , gleefully sharing our latest acquisitions and discoveries .
10 And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put
11 But we called them in Welsh do you see .
12 To open the walnuts we placed them on one stone and hammered with another .
13 How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed .
14 All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time .
15 Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed .
16 We replaced them by closed stoves or by central heating boilers , which were so much more efficient that they essentially have used the same amount of fuel and we have simply become more comfortable in the process .
17 We , we had them about that .
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