Example sentences of "we [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Intel still denies that there is any delay in volume deliveries of the Pentium 80586 microprocessor for public consumption , but vendors briefed by the company have confirmed that , as we revealed a few weeks ago ( UX No 410 ) , the part at present needs a heat sink and a fan , and that Intel is unlikely to be able to ship in volume before the fourth quarter 1993 . |
| 2 | We rode a good way along the track before Mandeville slowed , leaned over and talked quietly to Southgate . |
| 3 | At the same time we appointed a Romanian , Ana Ureche , to coordinate and represent our work . |
| 4 | ‘ There was an unacceptably long waiting list before we appointed a second consultant in Chester but since then there has been a big improvement , ’ she said . |
| 5 | We appointed a superb chief inspector of prisons , Judge Tumim , and set up the Woolf commitee on prison reform , which has produced an excellent report . |
| 6 | Working with the museum 's curatorial and education staffs , and our consulting architect , we consulted a broad group of experts . |
| 7 | We met a small boy , and asked the way to one of the springs . |
| 8 | In the lobby of the hotel we met a Coptic priest . |
| 9 | In the garden of a blue house , a few yards from the rivermouth , we met a holy man with a cherub 's face and a patchy beard . |
| 10 | Our first minor disagreement of this kind came when we met a large puddle on a woodland track and Skipper decided he could n't possibly get his feet wet . |
| 11 | I tell you this , Master , if we met a pretty maid I suspect she 'd fall in love with one of the horses before she took to any of us ! ’ |
| 12 | On top we met a few much younger E types . |
| 13 | We met a few times . |
| 14 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
| 15 | It comes primed , ready for the paint finish of your choice ( we applied a rich marbled effect ) . |
| 16 | Now suppose we could describe the position of every atom in some global continuum , then we would be " embedding " the entire system in the continuum and , for example , if we applied an homogeneous displacement . |
| 17 | Erm we owned a little and just thought I 'd ask the party see how many things that cropped up as a result |
| 18 | For 14 years we owned a large hairy dog . |
| 19 | Late that afternoon we made a perfect three-point landing at the RCAF airstrip in Whitehorse , capital of the Yukon Territory , where I found shelter for the night in a bare but adequate room at the Whitehorse Hotel . |
| 20 | That afternoon we made a laborious but uneventful descent down the north east face and retrieved our skis . |
| 21 | Forced by tiredness , we made a tricky landing through heavy surf onto the Isle of Kirkibost . |
| 22 | After the meeting Mr Fallon said : ‘ We made a good bit of progress . |
| 23 | On 22 June we made a revised offer of 7.5 per cent for the nurses and 6 per cent for the ancillaries and administrative staff . |
| 24 | Postage , stationery , fourteen O six raffle tickets , eleven pound , making a total of two thirty twenty six as against on the other side the income , three ninety six so we made a hundred and sixty six pound on on the open show which is a great increase on last year because last year we only made twelve pounds something twelve pound and a penny we made last year , so this is a great increase . |
| 25 | Coming out into the main channel , we made a wide U-turn and headed upriver . |
| 26 | In nineteen ninety three , four we made a seventy one thousand reduction in economic development , and this year we 're proposing to make a fifty thousand , there 're actually cuts I think , that any committee of any council has made for the last three years . |
| 27 | After that we made a thorough search of the chapel , its walls , flagstones and altar , but there was nothing . |
| 28 | As we climbed up the canyon we made a great clatter with sticks and stones and old tin cans , announcing our presence to the denizens . |
| 29 | killed whilst CO of No Squadron ) got a few of us together and suggested that we made a time-and-distance run from the seemingly everlasting fires of Rotterdam to the target — a large troop concentration some 35 miles away . |
| 30 | In nineteen ninety two , three , er , we made er , we made a four percent reduction in economic development , a , a , about erm , about fifty thousand pounds . |