Example sentences of "we [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As winter approaches , we bring you a collection of crisp , cool cuts that incorporate classic shapes and new techniques . |
| 2 | The government could pick up anyone they wanted and prosecute at their leisure , if we made them a present of all those names . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's a tricky one to answer because the complexities are still there but we made them a lot more hidden . |
| 4 | Anyway , when the ambulance men came we made them a cup of tea , cos they said they a they 'd have been that busy they have n't had a break ! |
| 5 | So we made them a cup of tea and hopefully they were going to talk her into it . |
| 6 | I said to him we made her a cup of coffee out of a teapot that was bought and she says she was talking about it . |
| 7 | Every time we had to travel in from our suburb to the city for clinic visits , we made it a treat day . |
| 8 | Frequently couples at their golden wedding celebration will say something to the effect of ‘ we made it a point never to go to bed angry ’ . |
| 9 | We made it a bit more Kinks-y and added just a little bit of flamenco , but how can you improve a great song like that ? ’ |
| 10 | We made it a condition that , as far as possible , teachers and pupils should be observed working in their usual way . |
| 11 | We made it a nice one , yeah ? |
| 12 | ‘ When we go to the unit , we greet the residents — we have twelve of them — we say hello and then we make them a cup of tea . ’ |
| 13 | When you rent from Radio Rentals we make you a promise . |
| 14 | When you become a Croner subscriber , we make you a promise . |
| 15 | And if we make it a decent team — people who are good at — at swimming and riding and all … ’ |
| 16 | We are inundated with relatives we encourage it and we make it a special time . |
| 17 | Have we given him a receipt or anything ? |
| 18 | But then we asked him a bit more about it and he made his fatal mistake . |
| 19 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 20 | ‘ And shall we make it a pwethent to make it happy ? ’ |
| 21 | Well can we make it a clear definition please because national means , national in terms of agents and corporates means multi-locational and all represented |
| 22 | Could n't find a size large enough for Hurley so we got him a nightshirt instead . |
| 23 | some of them , some of them he said , I forget what we took we got them a bottle of Coke did n't we ? |
| 24 | We got her a flat in the same block as ours , although she spends most of her time in here . |
| 25 | I said , ‘ For God 's sake , Desmond , hire her a television , ’ but he said no because we 're not well off , not well off at all , and we 're having to keep her , she has n't offered a penny , not that we 'd accept of course , and anyway Desmond said there was n't any point because if we got her a television she 'd think of something else , want to play cards or something , and that would be worse — and he 's right , it would , because a game of bridge with her is like the cold war all over again . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We got ourselves a new ball park , ’ said the man from Detroit . |
| 27 | We 'ad 'im a good six months , ai n't we ? |
| 28 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 29 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 30 | That , I believe , was because we moved him a bit upmarket in his packaging , and gave him more thriller-style covers . |