Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | With our sister company , Wood Group Engineering Contractors , we successfully secured a long term contract from BP to provide integrated engineering services for the Miller , Magnus and Thistle platforms . |
| 32 | We successfully detected and classified pathogenic cholera vibrios from a range of other organisms in agreement with the published results . |
| 33 | We recently returned from a holiday in Barbados where we successfully completed the PADI certification for Open Water Diver . |
| 34 | Using our new sampling kitchens and the findings of consumer panels across the country , we successfully reformulated and redesigned over 1,000 existing lines to satisfy the ever-changing and increasing demanding tastes of our customers . |
| 35 | We successfully unhooked her and on the scales she came in at 13lb 4oz , not a monster cat , rather a kitten , but nevertheless a most satisfying experience ; at last a cat on the bank . |
| 36 | Against this background we successfully integrated Ultramar 's upstream assets and undertook a rationalisation and disposal programme of those assets which did not fit the long-term strategy of the Company . |
| 37 | This year we successfully resisted enormous pressure from Iceland , Norway and Japan to lift the moratorium . |
| 38 | ‘ We successfully politicized a generation of women — those now in their thirties . ’ |
| 39 | Drinks were served in the bar adjoining the ‘ Country Manners ’ restaurant , and we leisurely sipped our aperitifs whilst choosing from the menu . |
| 40 | Arsenal paid a bargain £40,000 for Peter in March 1981 after our 1st Division return had gone sour and we badly needed the cash , but he came back to Selhurst Park on loan in October 1983 and his tenacious and skilful experience was a key reason for our 2nd Division survival in that difficult season . |
| 41 | We badly needed some work in , for the ‘ order ’ file was low . |
| 42 | We badly needed new hymns , more critically translated , and I , with a Burmese colleague , was able to add something like eighty new hymns . |
| 43 | It was hard , but we badly needed the money the holiday lettings were bringing us . |
| 44 | But we mostly seemed to buy toys on the way somewhere to do something else . |
| 45 | In the end , though , we mostly played my partner 's tee shots , because we could find hers . ’ |
| 46 | Yes , because of , we were in school together in Dutch and on the way home we were with Dutch friends , so we then , and we mostly spoke Dutch and now , since I , so it 's nearly , since now seven years have been , since I have gone to States , first year in eighty three , came back in eighty four , and since then we 've never , ever spoke Dutch . |
| 47 | And er we , we did n't do an awful lot on commercial later on , we gave up that er thing we , we mostly concentrated on the private cars . |
| 48 | By doing so , we effectively answered the first part of the question of principle raised by the appeal , and decided that the court has the power in its inherent jurisdiction to override W. 's refusal to undergo the necessary treatment . |
| 49 | If we had gone on , our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced . |
| 50 | ‘ We talked and cried and talked and cried then we slowly began to laugh together . ’ |
| 51 | We slowly sweated our way up the steep mountainside on wet , slippery grass which gave way to wetter , slippier rocks looming vertically out of the swirling mist . |
| 52 | However , play was kept tight and we slowly increased our lead . |
| 53 | As we slowly descended , the mist cleared a little , and we found ourselves amid sheep pastures … ’ wrote the late Louis Littman , a successful businessman , when he and his wife first saw Ashley Chase with a view to buying it . |
| 54 | The next day we companionably photocopied the notes together . |
| 55 | yeah we ate we right enjoyed it |
| 56 | She had a strange name we rather connected with ‘ Salt Peter , ’ she was called Petula Clarke . |
| 57 | We discreetly discussed who they might be , and finally placed our bets on either a WRVS rambler 's club from Perth , or a group of senior women 's prison officers on an Outward Bound course . |
| 58 | We eventually reached Big . |
| 59 | When we eventually reached the Taj , I bent down to examine the inlay on the tombs more closely . |
| 60 | It must have been nearly 5 o'clock when , having finally got the cars across that ferry , we eventually drove into Martigues in dazzling late afternoon sunshine to see the fishing boats come in . |