Example sentences of "we [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 2 | In the Boar 's Head we met some friends and started talking . |
| 3 | He went back into Iraq , in the marshes , at great personal danger to himself and translated for me when we met some Shias . |
| 4 | ‘ It is unnatural , ’ said the Sheikha when we met some months later . |
| 5 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 6 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 7 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 8 | That 's where er we made some money potato scones . |
| 9 | GUIL : I think we can say we made some headway . |
| 10 | There is a twelve percent reduction in maintenance , partly because we sold some holdings , partly a cut in the service , it is a , it is a , it 's a , it 's a legal requirement to maintain the whole thing , under the terms of the agreement , and I 'm also , because of the change in our , dropping our , a land agent , now that 's a reduction of thirty three percent in the management of the estates , so I really am doing my best and resources quite rightly have held my noose in order to ensure that I do . |
| 11 | They sold off their small tools division where we sold some bearings to them . |
| 12 | Anyway , at Stevenage Town Hall we told Ralph that we expected some money for these . |
| 13 | We asked some children what they thought happened to food inside their bodies . |
| 14 | We asked some children to add to a picture to show where the light in a room was coming from . |
| 15 | ‘ We squandered some chances and after half-time for a spell our possession , which is Tranmere 's strong point , was a little sloppy . ’ |
| 16 | We got attention straight away , we got some kind of profile very easily . |
| 17 | ‘ We got some eggs too , Mrs Parvis , ’ said Gloria . |
| 18 | We got some torches together and set off for the graveyard . |
| 19 | What we had to do was pop out to buy daddy a card and we got a paper and we got some biscuits and cake for tea for tomorrow . |
| 20 | Nope we sat and le and the other day we got some chips , you know , me and Mikila and sat in the park |
| 21 | She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open |
| 22 | We got some stuff to . |
| 23 | In the morning erm we got some bread and put it on the window and came down and we caught it and put it out again . |
| 24 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 25 | Did you get some sweetcorn ? right We got some brussels sprouts |
| 26 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 27 | Erm , what happened was the cathedral council one light in at a cost of four hundred and fifty pounds but they could n't afford the second light , so we got some money from erm the residents who contributed some money , we got some money from the school and there was a shortfall of sixty six pounds thirty one pence for the total bill , so the chairman er . |
| 28 | Erm , what happened was the cathedral council one light in at a cost of four hundred and fifty pounds but they could n't afford the second light , so we got some money from erm the residents who contributed some money , we got some money from the school and there was a shortfall of sixty six pounds thirty one pence for the total bill , so the chairman er . |
| 29 | ‘ Time we got some sleep , ’ said Thomas . |
| 30 | ‘ Time we got some sleep . |