Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we met him last he was a mere lad down in Somerset , gazing in wonderment at troops of militia , itinerant theatre companies and a larger-than-life basking shark . |
| 2 | We eventually went to the Austrian Police in an effort to get some assistance and , as good fortune would have it , we met it young Austrian called Thomas who worked at one of the Shipping Offices on the border . |
| 3 | Yeah we divided them all up , but if me or Jan needed to refer to anything we 'd recognize the information that we 've put on the envelopes quicker than we 'll recognize the stuff that he 's put in there |
| 4 | The melodic contour would suffer if we made them all equally prominent , so we have to decide on their relative importance and stress them accordingly . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd prefer a proper fire , of course , but we made them illegal in this part of London some years ago . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We made it easy for them , ’ said Kendall afterwards . |
| 7 | And erm we made it little to , potatoes and then dig them up what you do n't want |
| 8 | Two days after we made it public that we are suing the head of the national and military police , we got bomb threats against our building . |
| 9 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
| 10 | We made it clear that what we wanted was a better social security system and not just a cheaper one . |
| 11 | We made it clear that in our views , the Western capitalist countries and their allies are not so much concerned over the ‘ liberation of Kuwait ’ as they are over maintaining their monopoly over the oil and money of the Arab Gulf countries . |
| 12 | In making them available under the terms of an existing contract , we made it clear that we would be concerned about early delivery to Argentina . ’ |
| 13 | We made it clear that the list of authors was not intended to be comprehensive : ‘ We stress again that we are not recommending as set texts the books of the authors listed … |
| 14 | She took the packet with some fussy excitement , and she was clearly a little relieved when we made it clear that we had no intention of staying or seeking entrance . |
| 15 | We made it clear that we would give further consideration to it once the Barber judgment was clear , and that is precisely what we are beginning to do . |
| 16 | We made it clear to him that we have many examples in Leicestershire of one-for-one adult education in the home . |
| 17 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 18 | We made it ready for our George and Elizabeth , before they moved to Cherry Tree Farm . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We made it difficult for ourselves , but we needed to get the early breakthrough , ’ he added . |
| 20 | I bought a French team shirt , and wore it at the Liverpool game where we stuffed them 2–2 . |
| 21 | Did you see what he did when we passed him first ? |
| 22 | ‘ We passed it ten li back , no ? ’ |
| 23 | When we asked her more about her playmate , she told us that Dohti lives in a gypsy caravan , had black hair and eyes and was 11 years old . |
| 24 | We asked him many questions , and finally Johann gave us the information we wanted . |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend referred to the Chancellor 's views but , when we asked him that question in the Select Committee , it became clear that he was not so much against it in principle as uncertain in his own mind what he should do . |
| 26 | We asked him that . |
| 27 | Yeah we got him that Hush Puppy . |
| 28 | and er , when we got them printed , before we even sent them off , there were one , somebody , I 've been talking to the father in , in the father of the bridge |
| 29 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 30 | Next time , of course , we got it right . |