Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time we fought against the gathering shadows , but to little avail . |
| 2 | ‘ We passed outside the city walls , and after a little walk , entered ; i green garden door , and made our way to a little plain square building , in which were arranged wooden benches , a pulpit and below the pulpit a plain wooden table and chair . |
| 3 | In thanking my right hon. Friend for that answer , may I ask him to have regard to the stresses and strains that already exist in a predominantly Christian European Community and to consider whether they would be increased if we admitted to the Community nations with a predominantly Islamic culture ? |
| 4 | By the time we got to the pub stomachs were beginning to rumble . |
| 5 | I took her hand as we walked to my house for breakfast , and did n't let go until we got to the verandah steps . |
| 6 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 7 | We excluded from the analysis subjects who had a history of heart attack , heart failure , stroke , cancer , or an unknown periodontal classification at baseline . |
| 8 | We stopped at the traffic lights at the junction of Wymark Street and McEwan Street opposite St. Michael 's Church . |
| 9 | We went too , but were not allowed in the hospital , so we played in the buttercup fields . |
| 10 | After one more roundabout and one more tune , we drove through the compound gates , drawing up to the house with ringing ears and a mild sense of both exhaustion and satisfaction . |
| 11 | Holidaymaker Jane Turner , from Nottingham , said : ‘ You could see windows being smashed as we drove past the side streets . |
| 12 | We swung on the school gates with our panamas trailing . |
| 13 | We worked in the coffee fields . |
| 14 | We took off the iron tyres , and cut out a small piece off each one and then welded the ends back together . |
| 15 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 16 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 18 | and we sang to the sister races |
| 19 | ‘ So we went to the railway police . ’ |
| 20 | The day after her accident we went to the swimming baths so she could have a shower . |
| 21 | We lined up behind old ‘ Beachie ’ as he was known and off we went around the City streets . |
| 22 | And we looked through the side windows and there 's not a thing on the ruddy counters , it 's cleared out . |
| 23 | We looked at the pressure points — many elderly people were drifting into homes after discharge from hospital due to poor aftercare . |
| 24 | He told them how Howard 's words had shaken him , and said , ‘ There were things we did with the Security Forces in the forests of which I am not at all proud . |
| 25 | That 's right , we 'll be waiting , as we did with the planning applications to come in on hospital . |
| 26 | One evening we left behind the parquet floors and chandeliers of the Victoria and went on a jolly organised by Herr Platzer . |
| 27 | We got tired , and sunburnt as we ran over the beach stones without shoes . |
| 28 | tried to call you both saturday nite and a couple of times on sunday — but no answer … the spurs game was just OK — but we had a great time at the newcastle game vs. scousers — great atmosphere — we stood among the newcastle supporters ( north bank ? ) and they made hell each time cole put it behind grobbelar … |
| 29 | An illustration of this can be found in cross-examination of a defendant in one of the trials we considered in the court files : Prosecutor : Why did n't you ask her if she was prepared to have intercourse with you ? |