Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes we met other travellers and conversation with them enlivened the boredom : merchants , wandering friars , the occasional hunting party , clerics or landless men looking for labour . |
| 2 | As before , a guard accompanied me to the barracks ; but this time , on the way back , we met two officers : it was exactly what I had hoped for . |
| 3 | On the way we met two patrols with machine guns and my escort had to give what I thought was a password . |
| 4 | He said that we should travel in pairs — never more than two at a time — so as not to arouse suspicion if we met any Germans or Fascists . |
| 5 | In the Boar 's Head we met some friends and started talking . |
| 6 | He went back into Iraq , in the marshes , at great personal danger to himself and translated for me when we met some Shias . |
| 7 | ‘ It is unnatural , ’ said the Sheikha when we met some months later . |
| 8 | In the first test , we applied acoustic-phonetic constraints by introducing lexical stress into the representations . |
| 9 | In the second , we applied lexicon-based constraints by implementing an heuristic which preferred longer words over short ones . |
| 10 | In those days we would always start the hay-making at Hury , a parcel of land we owned two miles down the road . |
| 11 | At the beginning of Chapter 3 , in Table 3.1 , we divided financial institutions into two groups : those comprising the monetary sector and those which we called non-bank financial intermediaries , now ‘ NBFIs ’ for short . |
| 12 | or more non-whites , so we divided all areas into those with less or more than 10 per cent . |
| 13 | When he joined the organization , and later , when the meetings of the high command were actually held in your own house , we made certain inquiries . |
| 14 | With our increasing clarity of the racism we faced daily , we made tentative overtures to involve ourselves in Black women 's activities . |
| 15 | We made many friends there , and valued very much the help and inspiration of the beautiful services held every Sunday . |
| 16 | We made many friends in Lourdes . |
| 17 | We made many years ago . |
| 18 | We made many mistakes , but there was one piece of common ground for hon. Members on both sides of the House , which apparently no longer exists . |
| 19 | Which we made good margins on . |
| 20 | We put up posters , we persuaded work colleagues to vote Labour and we made financial contributions . |
| 21 | ‘ We made two mistakes which cost us dearly . |
| 22 | And we made two cars one big and one small . |
| 23 | Now and again we made such mistakes . |
| 24 | As the right hon. Gentleman pointed out , we made new arrangements on 5 November to ensure that income support payments can be paid directly to the lender . |
| 25 | People were left feeling disconnected from sexism until we made all oppressions centre-stage . |
| 26 | Continuing up the easy gradient of the ridge we made frequent stops to admire the icy crest and fearsome north west face of Chamlang , soaring skywards . |
| 27 | Our first problem at Llandrindod Wells was to estimate the numbers coming to the lake , so each night during the spring we made hourly circuits of the lake collecting all the toads we encountered . |
| 28 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 29 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ We made special checks of the train stations to make sure the commuters got their copies . ’ |