Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suddenly we screeched to a halt at a checkpoint . |
| 2 | For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity . |
| 3 | Towards 4 o'clock we returned to the station to catch our train , which was to be hauled by a famous locomotive — ‘ Evening Star ’ . |
| 4 | We 'd have got here sooner only we stopped for a bite of something . |
| 5 | So we came to the halt , everything worked perfectly and I was astonished how easy this all was , I rather fancy it was the one blade digging gently in and scribing a beautiful arc to port , all the time into wind ; it was the gentlest of one-wheel landings that could ever have been attained . |
| 6 | So we went on the rampage . |
| 7 | So we went for a shellac finish . |
| 8 | So we went to a restaurant in the King 's Road . ’ |
| 9 | So we went to the dining room . |
| 10 | So we went to the locker-room of Portmarnock and Peter introduced me to the great Arnold Palmer . |
| 11 | So we went into the shop , said Sorry to bother you , but Mr so-and-so er number seven is there a flat upstairs ? |
| 12 | So we went in the door , and just sort of said , yeah we had , we 'd kept it ages had n't we ? |
| 13 | So we whipped into the van and off we went . |
| 14 | She said I must mention I 've had a few more deliveries from Ercol So we walked into the living room . |
| 15 | So we ran into the water and took the body . ’ |
| 16 | We were disappointed when Sheffield Wednesday turned down our bid for David Hirst so we looked at the situation again and decided that Cantona was the best . |
| 17 | So we identified with the hedgehog , and felt responsible for it . |
| 18 | So we proceeded on a cost plus basis , also the cost plus environment actually brings the partners together because if there are three of us working on a cost plus contract and I have a problem , my two partners rush to help me because clearly there 's some more profit for them , erm if the only difficulty with cost plus contract of course is that unless you have a a real ceiling on the total er costs that you 're going to pay , it may keep on rising far higher than you 'd ever imagined . |
| 19 | cos to be really eager because she said erm that she 'd asked the bloke about staying on permanently and everything and he said that it seemed the people who they were most impress impressed with after Christmas that can stay on permanently so we said on the end , you 've got ta be really eager and everything so she apparently was asking loads of questions |
| 20 | So we sat in the swimming pool in Reykjavik knowing that outside we had all the food , all the clothing , the skis , the chutes . |
| 21 | So we talked about the edge . |
| 22 | We really felt that this was a book to push on , and so we talked to the trade very early on , consulted them on the jacket and so on . |
| 23 | So we concentrated on the pleasure we could get for nothing . |
| 24 | The afternoon temperature shot into three figures Fahrenheit so we dived into the river to cool off . |
| 25 | Lastly we looked at the way in which the form of words is affected by the sender 's knowledge and idea of the receiver 's knowledge . |
| 26 | Together we returned to the sitting-room for another game of ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 27 | Together we shouted at the man , and told him we would tell this story all over London so that his name would be hated . |
| 28 | Finally we asked for a change in the wording of supplementary benefit law which would abolish the term ‘ cohabitation ’ , with its sexual connotations , and substitute what seemed the more decent and objective phrase , ‘ living together as husband and wife ’ . |
| 29 | Finally we sat in the hide open to the general public and looked out over the wide expanse of water at Low Ellers . |
| 30 | Finally we stopped at a machine knitting company and I realised what she was shopping for . |