Example sentences of "we [vb past] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must admit , we joined them a few moments later for a well-earned cuppa after our day 's exertions . |
| 2 | We sat and had a relaxing drink before we cooked them a typical English dinner of baked cod with new potatoes and vegetables , followed by rhubarb fool and cognac . |
| 3 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |
| 4 | We called them The Big Ones . |
| 5 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 6 | They 've had to go for the we did them a few sort of quotes on the survey side of this Arrow Park and er we 've got ta , you know , really stick to this tight budget because it 's the only way you can get them no matter what people are telling you erm about the recession being over , people still want things for nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought Spartak were a bit lax at the back over there , and let's be fair , we gave them a soft goal . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought Spartak were a bit lax at the back over there , and let's be fair , we gave them a soft goal . |
| 9 | If we gave them the five hundred , we wo n't , we are within , having said that , we 're not going to give everybody everything , I do n't think . |
| 10 | We gave them an early Christmas present . |
| 11 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 12 | We had them the other night . " |
| 13 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |