Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We revealed yesterday that another of Courtney 's victims is still too terrified to tell police that he attacked her . |
| 2 | Quickly , we rode away into the night . |
| 3 | Wallowing our way into a sheltered corner of the bay , we rode rather inelegantly in on the surf . |
| 4 | We rode slowly down the beaten track . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember when we rode here , your father and I. Young and strong we were . |
| 6 | On the motor bike we rode all over the countryside , to Bathampton , Bradford-on-Avon to see the old tithe barn , to Bristol to visit the Llandoger Trow , and as far as Cheltenham Spa , Leamington and Gloucester . |
| 7 | We had learnt to ride by the time we were four , and we rode everywhere ; no one went for walks in those days . |
| 8 | At first , we rode together but the freshness of the horses , particularly Bowyer 's and Southgate 's , meant we had to break up . |
| 9 | We rode hard all night and it was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning when we reached Strelsau . |
| 10 | Ah , so we rode home and that was it delighted |
| 11 | We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table . |
| 12 | We crept close enough to see the features which set them apart from curlew : the smaller size , relatively shorter bill and pattern of light and dark head-stripes . |
| 13 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 14 | We agreed therefore to conduct the interview in our local hostelry . |
| 15 | We agreed that much work is still to be done to help bring about a change of heart within our Churches . |
| 16 | In fact erm , what we agreed yesterday was one on this paper , two and three followed from it , erm , but were not actually moved , at the working party , because it was me who did the moving . |
| 17 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 18 | AS a resident and on behalf of the residents of Prescott Street , Albert Hill , I am appalled that our bus service we fought so hard to get is going to be taken away from us . |
| 19 | For a few minutes we fought wildly . |
| 20 | ‘ We fought together and we suffered together . |
| 21 | We fought together with General Franco in the Civil War . |
| 22 | Wriggling in our seats we gazed dumbly at the teacher , as dogs will whose owner is eating a slice of cake ( Miss ! |
| 23 | We clung helplessly to the upturned optimist until rescued by the instructor with a motor boat . |
| 24 | We clung together for warmth and vowed to love one another more than anyone else for all time . |
| 25 | We consulted widely with the Membership before submitting our evidence to John Warne . |
| 26 | We consulted more than 160 separate organisations on that . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'd both be strangers , then , if we met outside ? |
| 28 | We met outside on the landing . |
| 29 | We met upstairs , in a room upstairs you see and this is where you got all your contacts and of course , the men all knew you . |
| 30 | ‘ So she became a writer in English , but without Englishness presumably ? ’ asked my friend when we met again . |