Example sentences of "we [vb past] a [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 | We rode a good way along the track before Mandeville slowed , leaned over and talked quietly to Southgate . |
| 3 | At the same time we appointed a Romanian , Ana Ureche , to coordinate and represent our work . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Working with the museum 's curatorial and education staffs , and our consulting architect , we consulted a broad group of experts . |
| 7 | We met a small boy , and asked the way to one of the springs . |
| 8 | In the lobby of the hotel we met a Coptic priest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! ’ |
| 12 | On top we met a few much younger E types . |
| 13 | We met a few times . |
| 14 | It comes primed , ready for the paint finish of your choice ( we applied a rich marbled effect ) . |
| 15 | Erm we owned a little and just thought I 'd ask the party see how many things that cropped up as a result |
| 16 | For 14 years we owned a large hairy dog . |
| 17 | Late that afternoon we made a perfect three-point landing at the RCAF airstrip in Whitehorse , capital of the Yukon Territory , where I found shelter for the night in a bare but adequate room at the Whitehorse Hotel . |
| 18 | That afternoon we made a laborious but uneventful descent down the north east face and retrieved our skis . |
| 19 | Forced by tiredness , we made a tricky landing through heavy surf onto the Isle of Kirkibost . |
| 20 | After the meeting Mr Fallon said : ‘ We made a good bit of progress . |
| 21 | On 22 June we made a revised offer of 7.5 per cent for the nurses and 6 per cent for the ancillaries and administrative staff . |
| 22 | Postage , stationery , fourteen O six raffle tickets , eleven pound , making a total of two thirty twenty six as against on the other side the income , three ninety six so we made a hundred and sixty six pound on on the open show which is a great increase on last year because last year we only made twelve pounds something twelve pound and a penny we made last year , so this is a great increase . |
| 23 | Coming out into the main channel , we made a wide U-turn and headed upriver . |
| 24 | In nineteen ninety three , four we made a seventy one thousand reduction in economic development , and this year we 're proposing to make a fifty thousand , there 're actually cuts I think , that any committee of any council has made for the last three years . |
| 25 | After that we made a thorough search of the chapel , its walls , flagstones and altar , but there was nothing . |
| 26 | As we climbed up the canyon we made a great clatter with sticks and stones and old tin cans , announcing our presence to the denizens . |
| 27 | killed whilst CO of No Squadron ) got a few of us together and suggested that we made a time-and-distance run from the seemingly everlasting fires of Rotterdam to the target — a large troop concentration some 35 miles away . |
| 28 | In nineteen ninety two , three , er , we made er , we made a four percent reduction in economic development , a , a , about erm , about fifty thousand pounds . |
| 29 | ‘ We made a real dog 's breakfast of it . ’ |
| 30 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |