Example sentences of "we [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month we endured the loss of our beautiful , two-year-old Airedale , Ben . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Erm , We revealed the Queen wants the crown to skip a generation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | We rode the bus back , and buses take for ever and are full of drunks and screaming children … |
| 8 | He cleared us and we rode the lift 's rush of nausea , slurped up , up . |
| 9 | Each morning we scanned the sky , hoping to spy the vultures gathering above us . |
| 10 | We scanned the trees and caught sight of the black cap of a great tie . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ But we agreed the colour of the stain weeks ago , do n't you remember ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And we did it and we did it jointly for for security , that we agreed the figure |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We fought the Germans , the London people … |
| 17 | We fought the Turks , and the Turks frightened off Uzum Hasan , and the surrender was the Emperor 's choice . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you remember when we fought the Alan ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Yes — bred from a mare Burun gave me the year we fought the Alan . |
| 20 | ‘ You forget why we fought the War , Li Yuan . |
| 21 | ‘ We consulted the maps to be sure . ’ |
| 22 | It was on that night that we consulted the I Ching . |
| 23 | Against that background , we consulted the industry widely about the contruction industry training board . |
| 24 | It was very confusing , key words , when we started using key words and when we asked because something was n't there , and we consulted the script , we were still cutting words out , but , at , the script was definite , but sort of like , two of them well they had doubts , and like we started cutting words out , and then like , the words that were out . |
| 25 | All met in the we met the school . |
| 26 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 27 | Actually , it could n't have been too bad , as we met the girl , and she is determined to stay in China to the end of the contract , in spite of what happened . |
| 28 | We met the students on Sunday — had dinner with them in the Sichuan restaurant , as I said , and they turned out to be very pleasant , one girl ( whose blonde hair must strike the Chinese with amazement ) and three men , sporting their long hair in defiance of the Chinese preference for short back-and-sides . |
| 29 | ‘ It was the first production scale quantity of all-plastic laminated tubes we had made but we met the deadline , ’ said Betts Tubes marketing manager . |
| 30 | I was relieved , we met the cheque , and that was that . |