Example sentences of "we [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fell over , and we endured a minute or two of bumbling comic relief . |
| 2 | Last month we endured the loss of our beautiful , two-year-old Airedale , Ben . |
| 3 | And then Sylvia came in with apologies and that perennially green hat , and we lowered the lights while she recited De Musset 's ‘ Nuit de Mai ’ . |
| 4 | Then we lowered the sail and sat in the sun , and Pierre spoke of the lot he and his fellow villagers had been born to , the weeks at sea , the gales , the great hauls of fish , the hardships and achievements of a Breton fisherman 's life , while we ate the food he had brought with him , and drank his rough cider . |
| 5 | Erm , We revealed the Queen wants the crown to skip a generation . |
| 6 | Of course , David 's bodyguards were guarding the door and I went to see what they wanted and this guy , who said he was the night detective , announced that unless we emptied the room in five minutes , he was going to close the party down . |
| 7 | After Dee left , we emptied the contents of our shiny carriers on to the floor and sat amid the jumble drinking coffee and trying on various ‘ finds ’ for each other 's approval , between ‘ oohs ’ and ‘ aahs ’ . |
| 8 | We rode the bus back , and buses take for ever and are full of drunks and screaming children … |
| 9 | He cleared us and we rode the lift 's rush of nausea , slurped up , up . |
| 10 | Each morning we scanned the sky , hoping to spy the vultures gathering above us . |
| 11 | We scanned the trees and caught sight of the black cap of a great tie . |
| 12 | In the previous sections we voiced a scepticism of the basic assumptions of the two most important systematic attempts to explain legal systems from within , that is , positivism and natural law . |
| 13 | We appointed a project co-ordinator in Bangkok . |
| 14 | To further the necessary changes within the workshop we appointed an education officer and an industrial liaison officer . |
| 15 | By the time we reboarded the pavilion , after barely an hour 's play , in deference to the rising tide , we had probably soaked up more liquid than the pitch . |
| 16 | Thus we agreed a way of phasing it in that reduced the cost of introduction but provided no disruption for those nearest retirement . |
| 17 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 18 | We agreed a number of statements on foreign policy issues . |
| 19 | Having said nothing about the er the charity erm erm the meeting on erm the meetings four times a year and we 're quite but there are some available for erm people erm and particularly to erm we agreed a list of people who wished to give them Christmas gifts , cash but I 'm sure they would help and and erm the names of people who who might need help er are always welcome so if I could just erm erm ask people to let me know if they know of anyone financial help . |
| 20 | ‘ But we agreed the colour of the stain weeks ago , do n't you remember ? ’ |
| 21 | Erm , that the , that we should support the principle , we agreed the principle at the last meeting , in support of the business link and satellite in Oswestry , that we should sup support the principle of supporting a business link satellite in Craven Arms , and that we should appoint a representative to the business links board . |
| 22 | And we did it and we did it jointly for for security , that we agreed the figure |
| 23 | In the final session we agreed the basis for a ‘ declaration ’ to the informal meeting of EC Environment Ministers being held in Denmark later this month . |
| 24 | ‘ We fought a war , did n't we ? |
| 25 | We fought the Germans , the London people … |
| 26 | We fought the Turks , and the Turks frightened off Uzum Hasan , and the surrender was the Emperor 's choice . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you remember when we fought the Alan ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Yes — bred from a mare Burun gave me the year we fought the Alan . |
| 29 | ‘ You forget why we fought the War , Li Yuan . |
| 30 | Bryan Gould ( then Shadow Chief Secretary ) and I , lost the battle because we fought an accountant 's war . |