Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both looked up at the air-vent , and suddenly we heard a terrible cry in the next room . |
| 2 | Suddenly we had a half-decent car . |
| 3 | Suddenly we caught a true glimpse of England 's back row as Mike Teague celebrated his comeback with some muscular work and debutant Ben Clarke enjoyed a raging first taste of glory . |
| 4 | are preferred supplier , for basically we got a hundred percent of the business in the States . |
| 5 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 6 | Obviously we had a few injuries at the start of the season , so hopefully we can go from strength to strength now . |
| 7 | Flynn said , ‘ Come on , we 'll get him , ’ and so we spent a whole evening looking for Fidler . |
| 8 | So we felt a great weight of responsibility . |
| 9 | So we had a we stopped in there , we were only gon na have one in there but it was alright in there , we had a nice table and that so we had a good natter |
| 10 | So we had a nice chat . |
| 11 | Erm , we 'd had a meeting prior to going so we had a fair idea of you know , we kind of got together and shared some thoughts before we , before we went . |
| 12 | So we had a big sandwich you know with salad and with crisps and that on the side and the hot chocolate and it was five pound . |
| 13 | And so we had a proper argument about this , of course he was a grown up man , I were only a kid you know . |
| 14 | After an hour or so we reached a Slovak village with houses in the traditional wood construction with wooden roofs . |
| 15 | So we got a thousand letters to do that 's all , well it might be over I do n't know they 're but |
| 16 | So we entered a genteel teashoppe/cafe which happened to be handy and ordered coffee , as so often before . |
| 17 | We like walking so we bought a second-hand backpack for him which has proved to be a lot more useful — it 's much easier to carry him in it . |
| 18 | So we joined a self-help group for parents of young gamblers . |
| 19 | So we evolved a brilliant idea of hiding a brush in an old tree at the end of the dyke so that we could brush the dirt off afore we got there . |
| 20 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 21 | TSA had strong academic links , in particular with the Scottish Solar Energy Group and together we organised a three day ideas competition in Easthall in January 1987 called ‘ Heatfest ’ . |
| 22 | Together we contemplated a knotted cord dangling from the black hole . |
| 23 | Finally we crossed a low pass and descended into the wide depression of the oasis where straggling clumps of trees and patchy cultivation marked the first springs . |
| 24 | Tonight we had a little concert from a first-class military band . |
| 25 | anyway we had a nice trip up past and back through Prestwich and all round . |
| 26 | ‘ All join up for a conga , ’ I called over the racket , and soon we had a long snake winding its way in and out of the tables and finally through the door . |
| 27 | About an hour before reaching Jura dark clouds began to roll over on us from its lofty peaks , and soon we had a perfect torrent of rain . |
| 28 | To explore the mode of inheritance further we performed a complex segregation analysis . |
| 29 | We stay at the Gasthaus Drei Kronen on the Landstrasse near Linz , where I am impotent , and once we had a romantic weekend at the Hotel Gretchen in Vienna , where I was impotent . |
| 30 | Yesterday we won a vital victory in having Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell agree to look at the case . |