Example sentences of "we [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The social workers always worked as a team and whenever we met a roomful of people arrived . |
| 32 | When wandering over the hills we met a shepherd , exchanged courtesies , and offered him a glass . |
| 33 | We met a group of walkers at the top , who cheered as we raced for the cross . |
| 34 | We met a group of young Hungarian paddlers and asked them if we could join in their endeavour to sneak through the Russian bit towards Tokai . |
| 35 | There was nothing visible downstairs where we were , so immediately went up the stairs at the side to the production level where the blast had come from , and there we met a group of people who had just come out of the control room and they were cut and suffering from shock 'cos the blast had obviously well it d nearly blown the control room apart . |
| 36 | As it was I think we upset a lot of our own supporters , and others in the country , without any real gain in the long run . |
| 37 | In any case , we er and we want er no opposition to it , and in fact I I was surprised we owned a pack a pack of goodies |
| 38 | We highlight a number of examples ( from the literature ) which point to the important relationship between exothermicities of molecular associations and the entropic benefit of residual motions and vibrations in understanding this phenomenon . |
| 39 | We are very conscious of the fact that we remain a North Western company supported by North Western customers and a North Western staff . |
| 40 | Well we bring a ball for Rocket and he 'll , he 'll run to it and then he 'll walk off and leave it , so we have to keep , we have to keep finding it . |
| 41 | To those who achieve that pinnacle of scholarship we award a Ph.D . |
| 42 | To those who achieve that pinnacle of scholarship we award a Ph.D . |
| 43 | Erm the first thing I 'm , I I would like t t to draw out is that at the end of the year we made a profit of a hundred sixty thousand pounds . |
| 44 | Apart from the fact that we made a profit from the Gulf war , may I ask the Minister to say what else was achieved by it , with Saddam Hussein still in power and carrying out his evil acts and with the dictatorship still in power in Kuwait ? |
| 45 | It 's time we made a man of you , aye , and time you stopped fooling with girls and halfwits . " |
| 46 | ‘ We made a T-shirt with a guy nailing a nail up his nose and I remember , in Czechoslovakia , I saw a guy do it . |
| 47 | ‘ We made a pact , that even if we split up , we would meet up on the bridge again one day . |
| 48 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 49 | I was dancing with her and we made a date for the following day outside the Plaza cinema at six o'clock . |
| 50 | ‘ We made a mess of things once , Julius . |
| 51 | ‘ We made a mess of a pit-stop on Sunday and that was the trouble . |
| 52 | And we made a road . |
| 53 | One day , with me clinging to you — what rapture ! — on the pillion , we made a trip to Zamora , a small medieval city to the north of Salamanca. ft was one of those heavenly , crisp autumn days , all sunny chills and skies of broken clouds whose grotesque shadows went moving slowly over the bare brown earth of the fields and hills . |
| 54 | If we made a noise somebody shouted at us . |
| 55 | ‘ We made a noise and ignored them . |
| 56 | Not because we made a fool of him at the Reel on Monday , no no , not at all . |
| 57 | ‘ He left it all to me to sort out with the planning department and I had to plead that we 'd lose him altogether if we made a problem . ’ |
| 58 | Promoter Frank Warren said : ‘ We made a £160,000 offer to Hodkinson to defend his title against Colin . |
| 59 | ‘ We made a £1,000 profit on our first issue , ’ he says . |
| 60 | ‘ Once , we made a recording of John and hid it behind the radio while his mum was making us some tea , ’ he chuckled . |