Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggested the distinctive Volvo 460 , which we duly put to the test . |
| 2 | The call was reflected in the name we eventually chose for the church : Cranham Community Church . |
| 3 | So , still roped from the crevasse fields , we gingerly crawled to the top . |
| 4 | We only got off the unit for exercise about twice a week . |
| 5 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 6 | That we only lay on the ground and kissed . |
| 7 | Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’ |
| 8 | But I mean if we only had like the writing paper and the envelopes and re-use labels , small items of stationery |
| 9 | We only broke for the night on the promise of a further meeting next day together with social security officials . |
| 10 | ‘ We only stayed on the beach for a couple of hours or so , and there was a breeze . ’ |
| 11 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 12 | Cos we just went onto the front |
| 13 | It was blow-out , on the driver 's side , and erm , well we just lost it , the wheel was snatched out of his hand when the tyre went and the next thing we just slammed into the barrier and then got catapulted into a concrete wall , |
| 14 | She had quite a large party staying in the village and so we just gathered in the kitchen and talked . |
| 15 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 16 | By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep . |
| 17 | That we just connected on a kind of mental plane . |
| 18 | After a delightful supper we just tottered across the forecourt of the Savoy Grill into the Savoy Theatre — very intimate — and we saw a nice show . |
| 19 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 20 | And at that stage it was too late to go down the rope so it was just instinct more than anything else that we just jumped over the side from where we were then . |
| 21 | It was with the greatest relief we soon heard of the surrender of the German Generals to Field Marshal Montgomery . |
| 22 | His first action had been in Greece in late 1940 : ‘ We soon went to the border , and the Germans invaded from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which they had romped through . |
| 23 | ‘ We spent an hour and a half at the post office in Middlesbrough before we finally got into the sorting office to find that 2,500 of our 36,000 leaflets had not been sent out . |
| 24 | The delicious things in the foil-covered dishes had long gone , we were getting drunk nightly on sweet German wine and tins of creamed rice were starting to look attractive , when we finally awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine . |
| 25 | We finally emerged into the sunshine again to find we were no longer alone in this forbidding place . |
| 26 | When we finally emerged from the mouth of the tributary it was evident that the Thames was in flood . |
| 27 | We finally arrived at a figure of two hundred and fifty pounds and he was perfectly agreeable . ’ |
| 28 | We finally arrived at the house . |
| 29 | We finally arrived at an event of which the adult Sylvia had no recollection whatsoever , but which to the baby must have been dramatically traumatic . |
| 30 | An advanced state of dehydration may have affected my judgement , for it was almost 12 hours later , in the dead of night , that we finally stumbled into the tent ! |