Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs , and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors , begging our way for the love of God , so that we might be beheaded there … . |
| 2 | The recession , which we expected to fade away through the year , has hit us full on , and as I write there is little sign of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel . |
| 3 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |
| 4 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 5 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 6 | Before we 'd gone far from the hut we had lost one of the Germans with sickness , and an hour later the Dutchman had to turn back when he had trouble with his crampons . |
| 7 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 8 | But when I phoned her ( at a ‘ safe ’ house ) for this article , it was the first time we 'd spoken directly since the filming . |
| 9 | He reached for the gear lever and we began to move slowly off the bridge . |
| 10 | Er , the woman put her hands up as well and then we started to move away from the door , er across the room er to avoid being stuck as a silhouette in the doorway . |
| 11 | We did meet briefly in the doorway and I think he said something . |
| 12 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 13 | Well one of the things we did do immediately after the er youth consultation is that we erm , we erected a paid for a skate board ramp at erm one of the youth centres in , in Harlow , so you know , we we creating that facility , but erm , what , you , so you your question was more directed at providing more of those kind of facilities . |
| 14 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |
| 15 | Supposing that we did turn away from the cheap arguments , where could we find a better way ? |
| 16 | ‘ The idea was n't greeted with much enthusiasm at first , ’ he says , ‘ But we continued plugging away at the distillers and mounted a back-selling campaign to the airline industry , pointing out what a boon light-weight ‘ Melinar ’ containers would be to them for their in-flight miniatures and duty-free supplies . |
| 17 | Bill Pritchard , whom we left going ashore at the Old Mole with his demolition control party and Philip Walton 's demolition squad , protected by Tiger Watson 's men , moved into the Old Town in commando fashion : each party , indeed each man , when alone , moved towards the target without waiting for support . |
| 18 | We had to sit outside on the front steps , which were also white . |
| 19 | After we had broken fast in the small buttery which adjoined the kitchen , Benjamin dragged me outside to the gardens . |
| 20 | ‘ My husband has been in the R.A.F. for nearly four years , but we had saved enough for the costs of a normal confinement in a nursing home , and as it was my first baby , we thought it well worth a little extra expense . |
| 21 | We had to go downstairs to the toilet , and in the winter the water used to freeze up . |
| 22 | To regain his sanctuary , we had to push deep into the forest . |
| 23 | We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week . |
| 24 | There were new forms of technology coming into existence then , one , we had moved away from the automatic er type of machinery to what they called er digital controlled and numerical controlled machines . |
| 25 | For three years now we had moved stealthily through the darkness , sometimes absurdly confident , sometimes terrified , but always wondering just what sort of man it was that we heard creeping along the wall towards us and what sort of weapon he had in his hand . |
| 26 | We had to stay there for the winter , however , because the ship needed repairs and the captain was ill . |
| 27 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 28 | I thought we had got away from the ‘ Where 's Chapman 's head ? |
| 29 | We had wandered far from the old farm buildings . |
| 30 | That evening , before dinner , we had sat together in the Clerecia , watching the glib little gilded pendulum of the antique wall-clock wagging away . |