Example sentences of "we [vb past] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE FOUGHT AND WON THE RECENT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ON A EUROPEAN PLATFORM . |
| 2 | Above all , a new review should build on the improvements we made but correct the mistake of 1985 and consider social security and tax together . |
| 3 | ‘ Then , when we realised and accepted the situation , I just got on and helped him with his fight . ’ |
| 4 | A heavy fog had descended upon us , and we realized that finding the other two divers had to be the immediate priority . |
| 5 | From Lizard Point we entered and left the Culdrose MATZ . |
| 6 | We bent and pulled the pegs from cracked earth with a feverish haste and the tent , released from suffering the slope at last , collapsed like a strange orange animal in slow billows and blasts of fetid air . |
| 7 | We went to the museum with all aspects of the Great Western Railway and finally to the gift shop , the only one we visited that had the Bishop 's Castle Railway book on sale . |
| 8 | En route we fried and ate the well tenderised cod — this was filmed with plenty of zizzle track — and I drank to the loss of another illusion in the Scotch that will never be seen in Saudi Arabia . |
| 9 | During its annual meeting in Brussels we prepared and presented the main resolution on ‘ Subsidiarity and the Environment ’ . |
| 10 | Using FMEA [ Failure Mode and effect analysis ] , we identified and quantified the main places where contamination was getting in . |
| 11 | And we came and took the cows down and we came back weary or what ! |
| 12 | Then we showed that increasing the after-tax wage would encourage labour force participation by those not currently in the labour force . |
| 13 | We yelled and waved the small Union Jacks mother had bought , and they shouted back their approval . |
| 14 | Sheltered by the land , we walked and explored the sandy coves and bays along the way , watching with fascination as the tide , with a truly frightening speed , engulfed the beautiful beach at Threecliff Bay . |
| 15 | We developed and built the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon , and the first satellite for geosynchronous orbit . |
| 16 | And we developed and built the first air-launched anti-tank missile , as well as the first launch-and-leave imaging infrared homing air-to-surface missile . |
| 17 | We landed and changed the plugs but it still ran rough — too rough for the Timor Sea ! |
| 18 | We amplified and sequenced the bacterial 16S ribosomal DNA from six parthenogenetic strains of Trichogramma wasps ( three different species ) and one parthenogenetic strain of Muscidifurax uniraptor . |
| 19 | We cooked and served the meal that Sir Thomas had recently eaten ; it is true he could have taken the poison afterwards , however , or when he was away from the table during the entremets . |
| 20 | That night , we cooked and ate the Swannay trout for supper . |
| 21 | We bowed and kissed the small white hand . |
| 22 | Characteristically he uses the imagery of song to point to the highest kind of contemplative experience of God : The Form unfolds a process of definition which comes full circle back to its beginning so that that can be understood in a new way : the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time . |
| 23 | It did n't usually matter because there was always the alternative of going back to where we started and tighten the game up ’ . |
| 24 | As we saw when considering the interactionist critique of positivism , there are two particularly important reasons for this : first , the processes of definition and application produce the data specifying the nature of , and the trends in , crime , and the characteristics of criminals that are subsequently used by criminologists to construct their theories and explanations ; second , these processes of definition and application have consequences for the meanings , implications and justifications that those ‘ labelled ’ by them give to their own actions . |
| 25 | Now if you 're quite ready then I think it 's time we went and put the record straight . |
| 26 | We never reckoned with this when we went and trounced the lairds ! ’ |
| 27 | While we were waiting for our ferry to come we went and visited the Mary Rose war ship . |
| 28 | We arrived on this job , first floor , and we went and opened the door . |
| 29 | This we did and carried the remaining one between us — sort of a boy at each corner , that is if a horseshoe shape has corners . |
| 30 | We fumbled and asked the group how they felt . |