Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We only spoke of happy things … ’ |
| 2 | It was with the greatest relief we soon heard of the surrender of the German Generals to Field Marshal Montgomery . |
| 3 | We always thought of Headline as a big company in embryo rather than as a little company . |
| 4 | Although we always spoke of our ‘ free ’ power , the installation , the building of the turbine house and all the tunnelling had , in fact , cost quite a bit . |
| 5 | Do you know that 's the last picture we ever got of her ? |
| 6 | These reports indicate they 've got more bloody AAMs than we ever dreamed of . |
| 7 | When we saw Liz 's auburn colouring we instantly thought of pre-Raphaelite curls , and prepared to get out the tongs . |
| 8 | We also heard of the commitment underlying the Opposition 's desire for the full effects of the original text of the EC directive on pregnant women to be implemented . |
| 9 | In the UK we have disposed of a number of non-strategic assets for a total of £208 million , which will be received in 1993 , while in February this year we also disposed of our remaining businesses in Australia and withdrew from that country . |
| 10 | We also read of crowd conversions through the preaching of the Christians in Jerusalem after pentecost ( Acts 2:37–41 ; 4:4 ) . |
| 11 | We also knew of the same facies in Egypt and Israel . |
| 12 | We also spoke of the encouraging future for South African cricket following recent changes in that long-isolated country , and of the good work being done by Ali Bacher and Steve Tshwete in uniting South African cricket at last , enabling former boycotters like myself to testify that the time had at last come to re-admit South African cricket to the international arena . |
| 13 | WE often read of uncaring stars so it was a joy to learn that Sophia Loren had bailed out her favourite waiter after he was sacked for taking time off to care for his sick wife . |
| 14 | The week when we really knew of the treatment of the Jews in Holland he could not eat either . |
| 15 | But , as Lodge says , ‘ he was thinking his way , with the minimum of intellectual and material support , through the questions which preoccupy us , decades before we even thought of them . ’ |
| 16 | They had her phone bugged before we even thought of going there — and they were never going to leave her alive once they 'd started asking her questions ; how could they ? |
| 17 | Sir , — Contrary to your assertion ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 14 ) that ‘ When the Scottish Institute employed Charlie Clark … it had no idea what a talent it had acquired , ’ we certainly knew of Charlie 's pre-eminence as a piper . |
| 18 | They might on occasion last several days rather than one day or less , but we seldom heard of them lasting longer than two weeks or so . |
| 19 | We never heard any grumbling , everyone ate everything and we never heard of any health problems ( if there were any ) ; it was totally refreshing for all to be themselves and be accepted as they were . |
| 20 | The one thing we never thought of was to check the wheels . |
| 21 | ‘ We never thought of that , ’ Cyril admitted . |
| 22 | We all had a similar colonial background and were desperate to ‘ fit in ’ and be accepted — so we never talked of racism directly . |