Example sentences of "we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Fifties we expanded it . |
| 2 | The more we expanded , the worse our cashflow got till , in the end , our very success threatened us with bankruptcy . |
| 3 | ‘ We were playing a percentage game and as the points came so we expanded . |
| 4 | The latter sentence would be tautologous if we expanded ‘ appear white ’ in it as for the comparative use . |
| 5 | From nineteen eighty one to eighty seven , we expanded into this . |
| 6 | We then moved on and expanded we expanded we brought with with a minimum of two words to do with each of those twelve words that we generated and we did this in a much faster way a much more creative way a right brain activity . |
| 7 | Last month we endured the loss of our beautiful , two-year-old Airedale , Ben . |
| 8 | The nastiest little attack we endured at this time came from , of all papers , the Lancet . |
| 9 | We endured in our separate miseries the wilderness of unspoken recrimination , accusation and regret . |
| 10 | He fell over , and we endured a minute or two of bumbling comic relief . |
| 11 | A year ago , we channelled all of our efforts on finishing the wings-eleven ply and spruce ribs on high-strength aluminium allow spars ( each wing ) . |
| 12 | Last year S C F programmes received almost eighteen million pounds of the hundred and forty seven million which we channelled through N G Os . |
| 13 | And then Sylvia came in with apologies and that perennially green hat , and we lowered the lights while she recited De Musset 's ‘ Nuit de Mai ’ . |
| 14 | According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony . |
| 15 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 16 | Before leaving , we lowered one of our motorboats to circle the area . |
| 17 | Then we lowered the sail and sat in the sun , and Pierre spoke of the lot he and his fellow villagers had been born to , the weeks at sea , the gales , the great hauls of fish , the hardships and achievements of a Breton fisherman 's life , while we ate the food he had brought with him , and drank his rough cider . |
| 18 | We dwelled in the fair , listened to the conflicting |
| 19 | We revealed yesterday that another of Courtney 's victims is still too terrified to tell police that he attacked her . |
| 20 | We revealed that monkeys from Longleat and Woburn safari parks have been sold for laboratory experiments . |
| 21 | Last August we revealed that J-reg cars were a joke . |
| 22 | We revealed that Royal Engineers were being ferried around in canvas-topped lorries . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Intel still denies that there is any delay in volume deliveries of the Pentium 80586 microprocessor for public consumption , but vendors briefed by the company have confirmed that , as we revealed a few weeks ago ( UX No 410 ) , the part at present needs a heat sink and a fan , and that Intel is unlikely to be able to ship in volume before the fourth quarter 1993 . |
| 24 | Manchester United 's Bryan Robson , as we revealed , is their dream choice but we hear that Leicester 's Brian Little and Chelsea 's Ian Porterfield are other names to watch . |
| 25 | Heather hit the headlines last week when we revealed she had dumped several pairs of her husband 's old socks , only to learn later he had hidden £500 in the sole of one . |
| 26 | BELFAST 'S poll-topping Tory Jim McCormick jumped to the defence of Sunday Life last week after we revealed that Conservative party bigwigs were urged to boycott Ulster . |
| 27 | Erm , We revealed the Queen wants the crown to skip a generation . |
| 28 | Of course , David 's bodyguards were guarding the door and I went to see what they wanted and this guy , who said he was the night detective , announced that unless we emptied the room in five minutes , he was going to close the party down . |
| 29 | After Dee left , we emptied the contents of our shiny carriers on to the floor and sat amid the jumble drinking coffee and trying on various ‘ finds ’ for each other 's approval , between ‘ oohs ’ and ‘ aahs ’ . |
| 30 | As we emptied our dustbins out we noticed another bin full of cold ravioli and bread left over from lunch ; the bread was mixed in with the garbage and was soggy from being in a dustbin of cold ravioli for two hours . |