Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we met she slumped in the snow . |
| 2 | We found it buried in the grass and it obviously been put there deliberately to maim . |
| 3 | When we approached she took to the steep places where we could not follow , and so we left her . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , they 're all listed are n't but as we came we came in the way we would come , I 'm a bit ignorant , so I suppose we were |
| 5 | Consider too the circumstances of Jane Austen , whose novels breathe such grace and balance that we assume she wrote with no distractions : |
| 6 | We know they stopped in a public house in Didcot . |
| 7 | In other words , we identify a particular event as the cause because we know how it could have made the effect happen , not because we know it happened before the effect . |
| 8 | We believe he came from the London area . |
| 9 | We believe it drove onto the site just before the call to the fire brigade — and that 's what we 're trying to ascertain from the travellers . |
| 10 | So , erm , I mean , that was , we thought I came to a discussion about young people which is really good and it really did have people in your age group interesting . |
| 11 | Before we went we met in the family room , Tremayne pretending nonchalance and looking unexpectedly sophisticated in his dinner jacket : grey hair smooth in wings , strong features composed , bulky body slimmed by ample expert tailoring . |
| 12 | Erm we went I went into the hall and saw that fire . |
| 13 | ‘ The first time we went he looked at the dog and showed no interest . |
| 14 | We think it turned into a joykilling . |
| 15 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 16 | We said we said at the start of this that we did enough training . |
| 17 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |
| 18 | The nebula is a cloud of tool gas and dust ; we see it silhouetted against the light of hot interstellar material . |
| 19 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |