Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 2 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
| 3 | We made it into the hall , which was actually less crowded , though still full . |
| 4 | We made it to the car . |
| 5 | By the time we made it to the foyer , a panic had started . |
| 6 | But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year . |
| 7 | And he said good , and here 's ours , and we passed them along the table , and we wrote down two point six , I said excuse me , could I just have that back , there 's a slight typing error , excuse me , sorry twenty-two per cent . |
| 8 | As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows . |
| 9 | He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd be privileged to help , ’ he said , when we asked him about the display . |
| 11 | We asked them to the meeting and we look forward to listening to you later on in the agenda . |
| 12 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 13 | we got him from the rescue , animal rescue you know |
| 14 | We got him from the RSPCA and he is my first dog . |
| 15 | ‘ S funny , in n it , ’ he ruminated , ‘ ow we got yer on the run today , arter all yer wins over us in the past ? |
| 16 | We got one for the car , you plug it in the cigarette lighter |
| 17 | Then we got one round the corner in the patio area . |
| 18 | we laid her on the step and I said to Elizabeth she 's stopped breathing ! |
| 19 | A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch . |
| 20 | Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there . |
| 21 | We used it on the ship , to keep the chickens ' food in . |
| 22 | Fuck Jean remember the day we found her on the floor ? |
| 23 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 24 | ‘ We found them behind the house when we moved in . |
| 25 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 26 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 27 | ‘ We found nothing on the river bank , ’ said Farag , still sturdily but less confidently . |
| 28 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 29 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 30 | Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August . |