Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 2 | ‘ We got up three times during the night to see if the arch was still holding up . ’ |
| 3 | We checked out hundreds of hotels but only found thirty-five or forty that met the basic-facilities criteria . |
| 4 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 5 | ‘ I was wondering , ’ he glanced at the Archdeacon , ‘ if , in the light of the thrust , as it were , of the police 's questioning , whether it might not be a prudent move if we filled in one or two blank spots in our intelligence about Hereward and , of course , Amy . ’ |
| 6 | We drove up one of the steep hills which look down on the city and are encircled by walls and bastions ( built by the great sixteenth-century architect Michele Sanmichele ) to the house where I was going to live . |
| 7 | I 'm not saying that you know would successfully we drove back millions of people supporting us that would never support us if you go into one particular matter alone or one particular hospital closure alone . |
| 8 | Sharing between us our repertoire , we turned up two comedy songs , But I could n't and Just in the old sweet way . |
| 9 | Melinda waded out after me and we climbed up one of the mooring ropes on to the deck . |
| 10 | We followed up 116 patients each with 3 or more clinically atypical naevi for at least 5 years . |
| 11 | We finished up 11 under and two in front of Tony and Mr Lu . |
| 12 | Readers were also still snapping up copies of Thursday 's paper after we rushed out 403,000 extra to meet the overwhelming demand . |
| 13 | ‘ We pulled back two goals and they were kicking the ball anywhere to keep us out . ’ |
| 14 | Only once it had looked real : when we flew back one night from a blazing Hamm at twenty feet in the moonlight . |
| 15 | We we started off ten , aw , ten , |
| 16 | We brought back four tail wheel struts complete with the tyres and axles and everything else on them and I got to weld this high-strength steel onto that carbon steel that was on the , the wheel and we wound up with a nice trailer with four B-Seventeen tail wheels on it . |
| 17 | A team of three , al ‘ freshers ’ at college , we rolled up one sunny September Saturday morning with a plan to sample the very best the area had to offer . |
| 18 | Studio 81 manageress Lynne Brereton said : ’ Last year we took over 500 portraits and this year we hope to exceed that total . ’ |
| 19 | Quite a lot of fish were returned to the water and I think we took over seventy in that couple of hours in the afternoon . |
| 20 | We sent out fifty thousand videos to random customers . |
| 21 | We sent out fifty thousand of those videos . |
| 22 | ‘ England lost the first Test 33–15 in Port Elizabeth and it was worse in Johannesburg , where we went down 35–9 . |
| 23 | My survival plan spun into action the other week with that hard-fought point against Northtown , and although we went down 4–1 against Clansford United I was not unduly worried — every well-oiled engine needs a little fine tuning . |
| 24 | There was a rugby match when we went down 89 points to nil . |
| 25 | Then occasionally when we had houses broken into and so on , if it was thought that a tramp could have been responsible , it used to be a great help if we gave out nine tickets for tramps and only eight of the nine were admitted to the casual ward , then we should clamp down of course on the one who failed to turn up . |
| 26 | It is possible for us to do it — we carried out one test in France — but it is very expensive . ’ |
| 27 | And he said good , and here 's ours , and we passed them along the table , and we wrote down two point six , I said excuse me , could I just have that back , there 's a slight typing error , excuse me , sorry twenty-two per cent . |
| 28 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 29 | And some spare copies of the photographs that came out from the DTI this afternoon — we ran off dozens to send out to the regional forces , but I snaffled six . ’ |
| 30 | Oh , ’ he added , ‘ we missed out one person : Richard Waldegrave , the chaplain . ’ |