Example sentences of "we [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He guided us along a functional passage or three , then finally into a large open area where he halted — obviously to let the full impact hit us . |
| 2 | ‘ Next time why do n't you come down to see us , to hurry us along a bit ? |
| 3 | Then my father slowly raised his rifle and there was the tiger , padding towards us along a narrow game trail , his head moving from side to side . |
| 4 | A Fatah officer with long , dirty hair led us down a slit trench cut into the soft , red earth . |
| 5 | After dropping 100m in about 4.5 miles , a sneaky left hand turn ( just after you come to some dry stone walls ) led us down a long rough track to the Low Mill — Gillamoor road . |
| 6 | Bertie led us down a sloping alleyway to a heavy door where we left our shoes . |
| 7 | It 's tied us down a lot . |
| 8 | ‘ Better take us down a piece , where the bank levels out . |
| 9 | But erm I I think some of them let us down a bit . |
| 10 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 11 | Gary Stebbing was a stylish England Youth international and sometime captain who joined the Palace straight from school in 1983 and played in a variety of midfield and defensive positions for us over a five year span . |
| 12 | As Ms Harvest has said to us over a satellite link , ‘ Dr Proctor … he was the Devil all right . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ George , he 's got us over a barrel . |
| 14 | We have an impressive ability to recognise those familiar to us over a wide variety of conditions : for example varying lighting conditions , viewing angles , cosmetic changes ( hairstyles or make-up ) and even age . |
| 15 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 16 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 17 | The Dalek Killer 's led us up a blind alley . ’ |
| 18 | They led us up a series of side streets to a post office near the station . |
| 19 | So that cheered us up a bit as you can imagine but what really cheered us up was making contact with the Indians . |
| 20 | That bucked us up a bit . |
| 21 | The whole thing sobers us up a bit , but unfortunately not much . |
| 22 | What 's more , he did n't come home at midday , when Sal served us up a dinner of fish and chips . |
| 23 | Cos he 's been playing us up a bit you know |
| 24 | ‘ One was financial — loss of earnings , keeping a second home and campaigning expenses set us back a great deal over the 15 months . |
| 25 | It 's a tragedy which will probably set us back a generation . |
| 26 | Once seen , it gives us back a legitimate access to a great wealth of traditional human experience on the matter , which must of course be critically used , but which certainly does not leave us utterly puzzled , as we might be in starting to observe a strange species . |
| 27 | You could say this for the new position : it took us back a way from the medical cut and thrust . |
| 28 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 29 | The other , on the face of it , gives less cause for revelling , since it takes us back a mere 70 years and is effectively an anniversary of an anniversary . |
| 30 | Bring us back a parrot ! |