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 . |