Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , we got off to a bad start . |
| 5 | Sarah said : ‘ Although we got off to a shaky start everyone is getting it together now . |
| 6 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 7 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales . |
| 10 | We walk over to a dusty square where over a hundred women , migrants from the countryside and recently closed state mines , are digging and paving with picks and shovels . |
| 11 | We sailed on into a warm enveloping darkness . |
| 12 | On Wednesday David Howell , the Energy Secretary , was forced to withdraw the threat of pit closures and on Thursday we woke up to a dreadful press accusing us of ignominious surrender . |
| 13 | And informal , we came up with a great variety of things . |
| 14 | To try and generate some more interest in aviation we looked into starting a project that was relevant to the area and after a lot of research we came up with a Flying Flea . |
| 15 | It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . ' |
| 16 | MH : Yes , we came out on a real high . |
| 17 | We came out into a lovely night : the effect of the quiet town , in the moonlight , with the snowclad hills behind is one that I sha n't soon forget , ’ wrote Warnie . |
| 18 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 19 | We drove off into a gentle January night . |
| 20 | Eventually we drop down onto a steaming red earth track which cleaves a disappearing seam through dark green ribbons of corn . |
| 21 | The Agency 's work strategy has , has been made available to members , and erm , I think if we look back to a previous Committee , where the er , information was provided , that we had been successful . |
| 22 | All of a sudden , Alfred strike one karate pose there and leap one leap on the front man , knocking him down , grabbed his machine gun and with two more leaps he was past them and through us as we open up like a black red sea and close again . |
| 23 | Further , this chapter also sets out to exemplify some of the problems we confront in considering an undisputed literary text ( The Faerie Queene ) in the context of a piece of writing which does not purport to be a fiction ( A View of the Present State of Ireland ) , yet which uses the generic and rhetorical conventions of literary writing . |
| 24 | One day at 6.00 am we walked up to a disused school in our community and stood outside praying . |
| 25 | John agreed this , which is why we finished up with a little model set showing the chimney behind the wall , down which a miniature Voord could be thrown . ’ |
| 26 | When we draw up in a pitch-black stonewalled alley I wonder about his reaction . |
| 27 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
| 28 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 29 | We settled down with a new bottle of champagne on the table before us , and I summarised what I had discovered about Brian Harley 's contract with Supersight and what I had not discovered about his putter . |
| 30 | Redcar 's City Challenge co-ordinator Dave Bottomley said : ‘ We started out on a confident basis with well-prepared plans which have resulted from the last five years of work under the Regeneration of Redcar banner . |