Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode to the fourth floor , the doors slid open , we regarded each other in silence from our chosen corners , the doors slid to , and by the time we returned to the ground floor divorce was forgotten and the marriage reconsummated . |
| 2 | I ca n't remember it all , but I think we rode along the old railway line . ’ |
| 3 | Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises . |
| 4 | As Dr Reading told BBC WILDLIFE : ‘ We met at the first World Congress of Herpetology at Canterbury in 1989 , and subsequently arranged to co-ordinate the two projects . ’ |
| 5 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 6 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 7 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 8 | We met in the early morning . |
| 9 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 10 | We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out . |
| 11 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 12 | We rippled on the yellow sheet , the counterpane — and us — long gone . |
| 13 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 14 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |
| 15 | The main assessments we made about the structural situation of the economy and the direction of change needed for both the economy and society have been verified . |
| 16 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
| 17 | I am afraid that the forecasts we produced under the old regime are now too optimistic . |
| 18 | The information that the Departments have presented to us on which to er respond to the consultation has n't even been very and indeed when we requested after the first round of consultation to know the existing number of lines on which they placed er their , their recommendations . |
| 19 | If the hon. Member for Livingston ever got into power , no doubt we would return to the longer waits that we experienced under the Labour Government . |
| 20 | From the gate we passed into the covered bazaar , and after running a gauntlet of salesmen ( all offering the same smudged postcards printed on blotting paper ) emerged into the open in front of the Naqqar Khana , the House of the Drums . |
| 21 | Chris Buckley and Hans Koeleman were still there at halfway , as we passed before the stony gaze of Nelson 's statue . |
| 22 | We whipped over the northernmost house , across the beach , and thus out to sea again . |
| 23 | We brought the figure down having at le , and waited two years and that 's th , I think that proves the lad 's foundation to the argument of how desperate the fire service need , need this station and it has absolutely nothing to do with Dovelands school er er whatsoever as far as I 'm concerned , I 'm the spokesperson for public protection not education and that 's it and er I 'm surprised er er that I know erm er er that Mr is is a very , very good supporter of the er southern fire station and supported us in the er in the er question we asked at the last council er meeting and er I 'm surprised he has n't spoke or even Mr who er , who likes to s , who likes to speak in the chamber but I 've has n't supported the fire station . |
| 24 | " We lived on the top floor of number eighty-two , Tyrone Street , Lower . " |
| 25 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 26 | We lived in the same street . |
| 27 | Er hundred and forty pound for the coach to Yorkshire which we got on the other side , a hundred and six pound back so the club er sponsored that , a hundred and thirty four pound , and thirty four pound . |
| 28 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 29 | That to me was one of the most rewarding moments over and above when we got into the big game against New Zealand . |
| 30 | ‘ Every time we got to the dying fall of Come Back to Sorrento she wound the damn thing up again . |