Example sentences of "we [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | BOXING Day and we launch ourselves on our own family tradition — a visit to the theatre . |
| 2 | ‘ This other team we 've got to beat — we met them on Saturday . |
| 3 | We met them on Friday and we did not get the assurances , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 4 | We made it on time — just — thanks to our car phones . |
| 5 | ‘ We display them on a kind of rotation system , ’ he told her . |
| 6 | I have to show you this , cos that is the disgrace and you all saw it , we read it on Tuesday . |
| 7 | ‘ We make it on the premises , ’ replied the waitress , thawing in the face of Dimity 's enthusiasm . |
| 8 | We pat them on the back , as if they were dogs ; |
| 9 | He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing . |
| 10 | As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows . |
| 11 | She , too , was a ‘ scholarship girl ’ and we prided ourselves on being the two most intelligent girls in the place . |
| 12 | You 'll see that reflected by the European press and the public as we introduce it on the continent next year . |
| 13 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 14 | ‘ S funny , in n it , ’ he ruminated , ‘ ow we got yer on the run today , arter all yer wins over us in the past ? |
| 15 | My whole aim was to get a bass like Jet Harris , a pink Fender , but we could n't afford it , so I did a couple of paper rounds and a milk round , my Dad chipped in and we got one on HP . |
| 16 | But we were gon na do it erm , cos we got it on the Tamworth Heralds . |
| 17 | ‘ We got you on a flight out of Dulles via Heathrow the day after tomorrow . |
| 18 | we laid her on the step and I said to Elizabeth she 's stopped breathing ! |
| 19 | I mean let me not allege that you 're one of the worst , but you say ‘ Dear Motorists , erm may we congratulate you on the acquisition of your new vehicle . |
| 20 | The news that Amstrad Plc had a hot new personal communicator product on the way should have been in the market for a couple of weeks now — we reported it on March 1 ( CI No 2,117 ) but these things take time to filter through and it was only on Tuesday that the shares really began to respond , putting on 3.75 pence ; they added another 3.5 pence to 34.75 pence yesterday morning . |
| 21 | We used it on the ship , to keep the chickens ' food in . |
| 22 | We could not agree more with that ; we proposed it on 13 |
| 23 | We send him on a B S five four double O course . |
| 24 | Just had one jumped over the side from us once and swamp ashore again and we caught it on the on the land again and put it away . |
| 25 | We dismissed him on their information . |
| 26 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 27 | Fuck Jean remember the day we found her on the floor ? |
| 28 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 29 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 30 | ‘ We found nothing on the river bank , ’ said Farag , still sturdily but less confidently . |