Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode along like three troubadours from some romantic tale . |
| 2 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 3 | At Lajpath Nagar we met up with two musicians , a pair of elderly men , one of whom played a harmonium , the other a pair of tabla drums . |
| 4 | The sequence in hand was apparently quite simple : we met up with another yacht and sailed in company , then came across a fishing boat to whose skipper I shouted , ‘ Have you any fish to spare ? ’ |
| 5 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 6 | We sold out within three months and have reprinted it twice . |
| 7 | After we got over the shock we asked around for other quotes and came up with an initial estimate of £1,000 plus parts , subject to what is found when the engine is taken out , from John Cutler Marine Engineers who were recommended by Sigma Yachts . |
| 8 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
| 9 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 10 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 11 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 12 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's time we got back to those glory nights . ’ |
| 14 | We bounced round on that pallet bed , so much laughing and shouting that the landlord came up . |
| 15 | My Enniskillen reverie came to an end as we moved out of that city at last , and continued southward beside the great lough . |
| 16 | we find , we found out about that place and it was , it was a third cheaper you know |
| 17 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 18 | That 's the first time and then we and then we were still around the back and we darted up over these banks |
| 19 | As we paddled on down this part of the river I became aware of a huge commotion behind me . |
| 20 | ‘ I think we copped out with Bohemian Rhapsody . |
| 21 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 22 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 23 | With the help of my husband who is an importer of clocks , we came up with this idea . |
| 24 | Oh goodness yes , wh we if we dredged up , we 'd have a say a piece of on deck , we used to land them on deck until we got room , so we came up at Upper Dock . |
| 25 | We came up against official incompetence as soon as we arrived in Spain . |
| 26 | In fact , Ray did a little work on it before we came over on this trip . ’ |
| 27 | I went to Africa in '88 to find a diversification and we came back with this idea . |
| 28 | We drove off to another barracks in Lille where we were taken individually into an office occupied by a portly Major ; he handed each of us a pile of papers and we were told to sign each one at the bottom . |
| 29 | And we drove down to another place , I think this was , it was just called the pub . |
| 30 | During my time at EMI , we received up to fifty tapes a week . |