Example sentences of "we [vb past] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
| 2 | ‘ In my boyhood we yearned to see the Poms defeated . ’ |
| 3 | In my boyhood , we yearned to see the Poms defeated . |
| 4 | His dry sense of humour spilled over into what might have been a harrowing session and by carefully chosen words and clear illustrations we came to see the value of the painstaking work required by those at the scene of a major accident . |
| 5 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
| 6 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 7 | We arrived to see the tops of the first ladder against the wall . |
| 8 | It was only after Patrick Jenkin became Industry Secretary that we began to see the proliferation of industrial support schemes . |
| 9 | When I 'd finished we began to see the funny side of it and ended up laughing . |
| 10 | The Queen 's Men came to Stratford in June , and we went to see the play . |
| 11 | So we went to see the humans . |
| 12 | The following morning we went to see the beautiful , fifteenth-century stables of the Sanvitale castle , and there , under the arcades , Eric asked me to marry him . |
| 13 | We crossed the western main line by a bridge to get to the G.W.S. Outside the first shed was King George V. We went to see the broad gauge track layout with the transit shed and broad gauge signal and after that took a look at the carriage shed which contained some clerestory coaches . |
| 14 | I remember when I was at university in Padua we went to see the basilica there . |
| 15 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
| 16 | We went , we nearly rang you last night , we went to see the Batchelors last night |
| 17 | Did mum tell you we went to see the Bachelors last night ? |
| 18 | and then we went to see the Curly Sue |
| 19 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
| 20 | At the Nanaimo Hotel after the coal-mine show , two of our engineers who shared a room down the hall knocked on our door one evening just before dusk to ask if we had seen the strange behaviour of the sea-gulls flying outside our hotel room windows , which faced the sea . |
| 21 | I have never met anyone who heard that broadcast , but the Indian superintendent and I felt we had seen the job through to the end . |
| 22 | ‘ The week before we had noticed that the shutters were open at the tower ( no more picnics ) and we had seen the car . |
| 23 | we had seen the cordon as a handrail ; |
| 24 | When we saw Low Birk Hatt advertised in the Darlington and Stockton Times , we realized who it belonged to because we had seen the television programmes . |
| 25 | I walked along the road while Frankland was watching me , but as soon as I was round the corner , I went towards the hill where we had seen the boy . |
| 26 | And we had seen the horses er er struggling and kicking Strange horses . |
| 27 | We wanted to see the place where we thought the 20th century had begun . |
| 28 | Somebody switched it on I expect , we wanted to see the cake did n't we ? |