Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly rain poured down , and although we hurried back to the house , we were quite wet when we arrived in the hall . |
| 2 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 3 | It 's to remind us that we sweep down from the upper world , slide round the bottom of the circle , and sweep up again , no trouble , if we have any sense . " |
| 4 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 5 | ‘ The second is that we step out to the supermarket and pick up some supplies . ’ |
| 6 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 7 | Well , I think you 're you 're putting your finger on the issue that we brought up at the very beginning about this man in the churchyard . |
| 8 | Naturally , amongst other things that we took out into the desert with us was the long-established tea swindle , which we all subscribed to , It was considered a most heinous offence if pupil or anyone else taxied within the proximity of the tea swindle and the great volume of sand engulfed those who were engaged in making the tea — indeed , getting any sand anywhere near the brew as it was being prepared was considered a serious offence . |
| 9 | What sort of percentage do the erm essays that we hand in before the exams |
| 10 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 11 | Well she 's got yes she got a she she sleeps in a in a special place but what she does is she 's got a rug erm we 've got a a rug in front of the fire here that we bought back from the States , and everything she finds that she likes she brings into the lounge and puts on the rug . |
| 12 | Something that we linked in with the frustrations earlier . |
| 13 | which was that four point one was n't included in the papers that went to staff consultative , which was the general list of things that we pulled out from the brainstorm last time . |
| 14 | The music that we beat out in the afternoons was their music , the music of the place , sea shanties and sand-sea shanties . |
| 15 | She was the type of young woman who loves danger ; and she insisted that we lie down in the entrance way to a park . |
| 16 | The numbers of key words that we picked out from the five authors were 7,17,7 , 16 and 12 . |
| 17 | ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment . |
| 18 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 19 | ‘ So we set out from the beginning to be ‘ author-friendly ’ . |
| 20 | in the afternoon so we went out in the morning to an antique fair |
| 21 | That 's right , , it 's a , it 's a , so my mother and I said we 're going back to that hotel , you know , were very , very kind of luxury type , so we went back to the hotel and my brother and I went into the room where we had a television view on the sea , very beautiful . |
| 22 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 23 | Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful . |
| 24 | We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable . |
| 25 | ‘ Dominic had left his AA card at home — we had a bit of a row about that — so we gave up on the car and decided to go out for a meal . |
| 26 | I wake them up and we shamble along towards the Customs . |
| 27 | So I have Posi the go-ahead , and we surged out through the Valve , coming almost face to face with the two ships . |
| 28 | Follow that philosophy and we go back to the days of the bland leading the bland . |
| 29 | George chuckled his way out of the horse car and we meandered back down the train together , George stopping to check for news with each sleeping-car attendant and to solve any problems . |
| 30 | If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party . |