Example sentences of "[vb past] we the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 2 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 3 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 4 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 5 | That you have a map of an island ; that there 's crosses on the map to show where treasure is ; and that the island is — ’ Then he told us the exact place . |
| 6 | Because the market for meals is in competitive equilibrium we saw that the marginal cost curve for films also told us the marginal value of the meals being sacrificed to make the last film . |
| 7 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 8 | They stamped round the sofa and did that tricky bit of acrobatics that Sid and Ethel showed us the other night . |
| 9 | As we were turning to follow his directions , he drew up his cuff and showed us the blue tattooed cross that all Copts have on the inside of their wrists . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 11 | He showed us the whole lagoon ( it is very big ) , slowing down to let us see the most interesting parts , then hurtled off amid boiling clouds of spray to give us a thrill . |
| 12 | When we arrived , Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms . |
| 13 | Mr Rochester lifted the curtain , opened the secret door and showed us the little room . |
| 14 | showed us the lovely crystal glass which she had received the previous Wednesday at Wembley Conference Centre . |
| 15 | As the dreamsun showed us the insubstantial outlines of the City down in the valley , we faded to white . |
| 16 | The sultan showed us the royal regalia which were secreted in the palace . |
| 17 | The officer who handed us the unofficial communique was risking his neck by taking a public stance against racism amongst his colleagues . |
| 18 | Our instructors taught us the correct names for the parts of the Topper . |
| 19 | Treatment improved since it nearly lost us the Crimean War . |
| 20 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
| 21 | Ministers had rejected the report but politically it took us the next two general elections to repair the damage . |
| 22 | We contacted Dr. Ford , who sent us the following reply : |
| 23 | Christmas Eve brought us the good news that we had also been awarded Phase II of the East Merthyr Reclamation Scheme , known as Great White Tip . |
| 24 | The people who brought us the old-school Arkwright football shirts are now bringing us Subbuteo merchandise complete with the classic Subbuteo falcon logo . |
| 25 | It is interesting to note that they come from the same stable that brought us the national insurance surcharge . |
| 26 | Made by the Japanese firm of Saga ( the same people who brought us the Lowden-esque Trameleuc acoustics , plus reissues of Maccaferri gypsy jazz guitars and Regal wooden-bodied resophonics ) these new acoustics sell under the name of O.C. Smith and promise an interesting combination of European but strongly American-influenced design , together with Japanese efficiency and affordability . |
| 27 | We considered gas , electricity and oil , and natural gas offered us the best benefits , ’ said Mike MacCormack , Administrator at Dunster Castle . |
| 28 | We listened to the hon. Member for Derby , South when she gave us the present status of Beckett 's laws — a pledge to increase pensions and child benefit , to which the new manufacturing package has been added . |
| 29 | His 1970s cycle of the complete Symphonies all too often gave us the plainer side of Masur 's musical nature : these tend to be rather sober accounts . |
| 30 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |