Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’ |
| 2 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 3 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 4 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 5 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 6 | When we got out into the open sea beyond the fiord , we began to see more auks , mainly Brüinnich 's guillemots and little auks , and a lot more fulmar flying around . |
| 7 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 8 | He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , we got off to a bad start . |
| 10 | Sarah said : ‘ Although we got off to a shaky start everyone is getting it together now . |
| 11 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 12 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 13 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 14 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 15 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
| 16 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 17 | Can we think back to the original complaints about company car allocation ? ’ |
| 18 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 19 | We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales . |
| 20 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 21 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 22 | As children , we grow up with the lovely stories in which animals really are people : The Wind in the Willows , Just so Stories , Watership Down . |
| 23 | As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished . |
| 24 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 25 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 26 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 27 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 28 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 29 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 30 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |