Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 2 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 3 | When we got out into the open sea beyond the fiord , we began to see more auks , mainly Brüinnich 's guillemots and little auks , and a lot more fulmar flying around . |
| 4 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 5 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 6 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 7 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 8 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 9 | As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished . |
| 10 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 11 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 12 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 13 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 14 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 15 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
| 16 | Setting off from Rosedale village centre ( the bakery there does a rather stunning line in apricot and mincemeat slices ) , we headed up towards the infamous Chimney Bank ( a one in three climb , used for the British National Hillclimb Championships ) . |
| 17 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 18 | We lined up across the broad esplanade between the Prime Minister 's Office and the clear Caribbean Sea . |
| 19 | The following morning , as we wandered along in the warm sunshine , a brilliant , azure sky enhancing the already remarkable scenery , Harish related a little more history . |
| 20 | We wandered back into the freezing bailey . |
| 21 | Then , on the second day , we dropped down into the lowest part of the crater to reach the hot springs . |
| 22 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 23 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 24 | In 1914 Boccioni wrote : ‘ We were aware of Cubism as it had been publicized in France in articles and books when we came out with the technical manifesto of Futurist painting ( 11 April 1910 ) and with our first exhibition at the Bernheim Gallery ( 6 February 1912 ) . ’ |
| 25 | We came out of the beach-hut belt and slid down on to the barrelling freeway . |
| 26 | Eventually we came out in the comparative brightness of the open space behind the house . |
| 27 | As we drove up towards the Common , they looked at each other briefly , then looked away . |
| 28 | The tumbled ruin that was Chilete disappeared almost immediately , swallowed up by the mist , as we drove out along the broad , freshly graded road , the walls of a valley gorge closing in . |
| 29 | By this time Paddy seemed to be quite enjoying himself as we trotted on through the silent , thistle-filled fields edged with woods . |
| 30 | We linked up with the Daily Express to help run the campaign , part of which is to champion the cause of Marine Nature Reserves . |