Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adj] [noun] " 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 | ‘ We applied relentless pressure but Tony Norman only made two saves . ’ |
3 | In the first test , we applied acoustic-phonetic constraints by introducing lexical stress into the representations . |
4 | In the second , we applied lexicon-based constraints by implementing an heuristic which preferred longer words over short ones . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | On the second anniversary of his kidnap , we made sure John was in the news . |
9 | With our increasing clarity of the racism we faced daily , we made tentative overtures to involve ourselves in Black women 's activities . |
10 | Initially , partly sheltered by the great landmass of North Uist , we made good progress southwards . |
11 | We made good progress , but a combination of better health promotion , screening and treatment should deliver say , a twenty five per cent reduction by the end of the century . |
12 | Which we made good margins on . |
13 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
14 | We put up posters , we persuaded work colleagues to vote Labour and we made financial contributions . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | He added : ‘ We made special checks of the train stations to make sure the commuters got their copies . ’ |
19 | We made special provision for those with haemophilia and HIV because of the special circumstances that are apparent and because of the widespread representations that have been made to us . |
20 | We made special provision for the homelessness problem last year , and my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for housing will be making a further announcement in the next day or two about the homeless figures for which we are making additional provision in the current year . |
21 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
22 | I watched her shuffle , wriggle and avert her eyes while we made stilted conversation about our lives . |
23 | We made anonymous phone calls . |
24 | In fact , we made considerable use of hypercorrection phenomena of this kind in preparing our phonological analysis . |
25 | If we ca n't find Simonica 's mum we must prove that we made very effort to . |
26 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
27 | Chairman Laurence Orbach said it was ‘ the first occasion that we experienced poor conditions in the majority of our markets . ’ |
28 | As our taxi made its way up the winding road to the north west of the island , we passed immaculate terraces filled with olive and citrus groves beneath which tethered goats grazed happily on the dry clumps of grass . |
29 | We passed giant slabs of ice which had buckled up into a cracked swelling over a rock and saw ice discs spinning on the surface of the water like root-less lily pads . |
30 | We passed little shops hollowed out of the walls , selling henna , mint , aromatic seeds . |