Example sentences of "we [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Intel still denies that there is any delay in volume deliveries of the Pentium 80586 microprocessor for public consumption , but vendors briefed by the company have confirmed that , as we revealed a few weeks ago ( UX No 410 ) , the part at present needs a heat sink and a fan , and that Intel is unlikely to be able to ship in volume before the fourth quarter 1993 . |
| 2 | In those on parenteral nutrition ( n=12 ) we gave the maximum amount of milk the patients were able to ingest without symptoms , and at the end of the test we emptied the gastric content via their gastrostomies . |
| 3 | We rode a good way along the track before Mandeville slowed , leaned over and talked quietly to Southgate . |
| 4 | As we rode the four miles to Wuthering Heights , he kept asking me questions about his new home , and the father he had never seen . |
| 5 | At the same time we appointed a Romanian , Ana Ureche , to coordinate and represent our work . |
| 6 | ‘ There was an unacceptably long waiting list before we appointed a second consultant in Chester but since then there has been a big improvement , ’ she said . |
| 7 | We appointed a superb chief inspector of prisons , Judge Tumim , and set up the Woolf commitee on prison reform , which has produced an excellent report . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought we agreed no more after first 500 unless get all captives , ’ read Alton Keel 's notes , quoting Weinberger at the end of the day . |
| 9 | We agreed the sixty eight posts to start off the Poll Tax . |
| 10 | I have just returned from a NATO meeting last week at which we agreed the military strategy that will accompany the strategic concept now agreed , of which Germany is a prominent supporter . |
| 11 | Heads down , strenuously and determinedly we fought the southerly swell for a couple of hours before arriving at An t-Aigeach , a wild though sheltered inlet , respite , complete with deer , a heron and a live floating urchin . |
| 12 | Working with the museum 's curatorial and education staffs , and our consulting architect , we consulted a broad group of experts . |
| 13 | ‘ During the time we had the picture in our possession , in an attempt to keep it off the international art market we consulted the criminal police , and attempted to put the picture on the index of important works of art which can not leave Germany . |
| 14 | We consulted the acknowledged experts in the field , many of whom were not known to the general public ; and for the most part we did little more than synthesise their conclusions in a readily digestible fashion . |
| 15 | We met a small boy , and asked the way to one of the springs . |
| 16 | In the lobby of the hotel we met a Coptic priest . |
| 17 | In the garden of a blue house , a few yards from the rivermouth , we met a holy man with a cherub 's face and a patchy beard . |
| 18 | Our first minor disagreement of this kind came when we met a large puddle on a woodland track and Skipper decided he could n't possibly get his feet wet . |
| 19 | I tell you this , Master , if we met a pretty maid I suspect she 'd fall in love with one of the horses before she took to any of us ! ’ |
| 20 | On top we met a few much younger E types . |
| 21 | We met a few times . |
| 22 | After 100 miraculous kilometres we met the other bus returning to Francistown . |
| 23 | ‘ Er , we met the other day . |
| 24 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 25 | We met the little boy who believes that all the inhabitants of an Arab village should be exterminated . |
| 26 | Whenever we cycled to work , or indeed from work , we met the full force of that malevolent wind . |
| 27 | " After we ran away from you we travelled as far as Quang Nam — that 's where we met the French recruiter who arrived here tonight with your truck , " said Dong hesitantly . |
| 28 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
| 29 | It comes primed , ready for the paint finish of your choice ( we applied a rich marbled effect ) . |
| 30 | Now suppose we could describe the position of every atom in some global continuum , then we would be " embedding " the entire system in the continuum and , for example , if we applied an homogeneous displacement . |