Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode hard all night and it was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning when we reached Strelsau . |
| 2 | We agreed that much work is still to be done to help bring about a change of heart within our Churches . |
| 3 | We made up some ground on them last weekend and have to continue to do so . |
| 4 | Brenda Lambert , headteacher at South Wellfield First School , Whitley Bay , Tyne and Wear , said : ‘ We made up some of the recipes and John Major 's has come out on top . |
| 5 | I think , you know , it it it 's er something we made not all that |
| 6 | We made hardly any compromises . |
| 7 | Ray Willsey , Monarchs ' head coach , said : ‘ We made too many errors against Frankfurt . |
| 8 | ‘ That was a reverse of the journey we made so many times to council planning meetings , ’ said Steve Clarke , chairman of the Supporters ' Club and standing for election to the board . |
| 9 | And , we made very little money on them . |
| 10 | For Robert Thornton , Mrs Gaskell 's honourable industrialist , this indifference is almost a matter of principle : ‘ The masters would be trenching on the independence of their hands , in a way that I , for one , would not feel justified in doing , if we interfered too much with the life they lead out of the mills . ’ |
| 11 | ( On average we sold about half of each person 's goods . ) |
| 12 | ( On average we sold about half of each persons goods . ) |
| 13 | In a series of transactions in 1992 , we sold substantially all our US and Canadian onshore interests , receiving some $250 million , and a further Can$88 million is expected at the end of 1993 for the remainder of our shareholding in ELAN Energy Inc. [ formerly LASMO Canada inc ] . |
| 14 | I also switched on the echo-sounder and adjusted it to ‘ bleep ’ if we passed over any fish — such are the benefits of modern technology ! |
| 15 | On our second d ay we passed below several large glaciers — their snouts festooned with tall ice pinnacles , resembling lines of giant marching penguins . |
| 16 | We passed along some of the corridors and slammed some of the doors . |
| 17 | We evaluated as many young boys as young girls for constipation , but twice as many boys than girls had soiling at follow up , while 1.8 times more girls than boys were still constipated or receiving laxatives for constipation at follow up . |
| 18 | In last week 's edition of The Sunday Telegraph , Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote : ’ It was a woman speaking from inside Dubrovnik against a background of shellfire who said : We expected so much from Europe and got so little . ' |
| 19 | In our special shower survey in the September 1990 issue , we asked how many of you own a shower and how you would pick a new one . |
| 20 | When we asked how this had been allowed to happen , we discovered that the children were expected to work their way through a maths text book ‘ at their own pace ’ with no specific instruction from the teacher . |
| 21 | thing we got so many of each yes . |
| 22 | No we got so many of them that erm , I 'll , I 'll |
| 23 | WE got so much that we had asked for from Norman Lamont yesterday that it might seem churlish not to give his Autumn Statement an unqualified welcome . |
| 24 | Yeah , last year we got so much equipment ah the that 's just a there , but |
| 25 | What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ? |
| 26 | We got then enough Jenni . |
| 27 | It was becoming obvious to us that Ralph was looking after David and we got hardly any money from the gigs . |
| 28 | We got that much cooperation from up there did n't we . |
| 29 | But once we got home that was it . |
| 30 | Well , according to the late Mrs Howard , we got this much from her at least , there is some doubt about the validity of his second marriage . |