Example sentences of "[vb past] we in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the blessed saint visited us in the church there , as before in vision , she came with showers of may-blossom . |
| 2 | The Greyhound beat us in the end . |
| 3 | Doris stopped us in the hall when we came in , loaded down under a small tree and a carrier-bag full of bits and pieces we 'd seen and liked , and , inevitably in our mood of reckless gaiety , bought . |
| 4 | And I did n't know about the drugs until the Customs launch stopped us in the bay . |
| 5 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
| 6 | dropped us in the cart then by getting that with the chocolates in . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll listen to Alastair Cook and join you later , ’ Harry told us in the morning , obviously intent on his Sunday ritual . |
| 8 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) told us in the briefest and skimpiest of ways — that is to be expected from the new model Labour party — of the Labour party 's pledge to return to a policy of fair rates . |
| 10 | Somebody told us in the market , but we never get to the market , do we ? |
| 11 | Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but |
| 12 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
| 13 | The husband now joined us in the street and the fracas escalated . |
| 14 | Benjamin smiled , opened the stable door and joined us in the yard . |
| 15 | ‘ Our area has been pedestrianised , and while we are convinced that this benefited us in the summer , it worked against us in the winter . |
| 16 | We had it organised so that when people contacted us in the first instance , we gave them a menu of mods that we would do , depending on what the customer wanted . |
| 17 | They were tremendous , and outplayed us in the first half . |
| 18 | It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today . |
| 19 | Whilst we recognise that conditions favoured us in the first quarter in that weather-related losses were comparatively light , the worldwide nature of the improvement , together with encouraging indications so far in the second quarter , lead us to believe that the worst is behind us and that trends will continue to improve . |
| 20 | Spurs coach Doug Livermore said : ‘ Andy 's young but in every pre-season game , he was so good , his performances hit us in the eye . ’ |
| 21 | His flight engineer WO W. G. Higgs wrote : On the night of 10/20 September 1942 we were attacked by a Bf110 from below ; he hit us in the port mainplane and set fire to numbers five and six fuel tanks , " the ailerons were jammed and the fuselage was also on fire . |
| 22 | ‘ It just hit us in the face , ’ said Robin . |
| 23 | hit us in the side ? |
| 24 | A bomb hit us in the night , d' ya not know that ? |
| 25 | yeah , well they called us in the canteen |
| 26 | I wan na go Black butchers on the square , last time we went to Harrendle Bob and Delph took us in the car |
| 27 | No , if you took us in your car , you could come for , if you took us in the Metro today , oh |
| 28 | As Terry Butcher admitted afterwards , Peter Shilton 's goalkeeping ‘ kept us in the World Cup ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ She deliberately kept us in the dark because she wanted to prove that she could get over this monster barrier of performing live on her own . |
| 30 | Apart form the Air Mont blanc Cessna that buzzed us in the late afternoon , if not the whole range , to ourselves . |