Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 2 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 3 | I 've talked during my presentation about each of the paradoxes which we laid out at the beginning of the morning which talked about the diverse needs of different parts of an enterprise from their information systems if we are to deliver the adv er the advantages of enterprise-wide client server . |
| 4 | We drew up at the house at last , and the man came round to help me down . |
| 5 | The rally was certainly not for rookies , as we found out at the onset ; only the intervention of the King of Jordan could resolve some problems along the way . |
| 6 | By way of diversion we stopped off at the army 's counter-intelligence headquarters . |
| 7 | Somehow , though , we did feel better as we filed out at the end of the service and made our way down to the river . |
| 8 | Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said |
| 9 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 10 | When we arrived back at the Grange , Cathy told her father about the visit . |
| 11 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 12 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 13 | The leaden feeling that weighed heavily on me as Jean-Claude rode into Paris did not lift when we fetched up at the house in the rue Victorie . |
| 14 | We took that hill at a cracking pace , and as we handed over at the crest , and dropped back to the end of the column , Fr Courtney called out ‘ Well done I ’ to us . |
| 15 | We stocked up at the hypermarket on coffee and beer at less than half English prices . |
| 16 | As we pulled up at the lights , he leaped out , kicked the wheel cap back into place , grinned and said , ‘ Thanks , it happens about every two years or so , ’ got back in his car , then signalled equally wildly for me to wind down my window . |
| 17 | We pulled up at the end of the schooling stretch and trotted back to where Tremayne stood with his binoculars . |
| 18 | On our way back we called in at the field centre , a converted ex-shunter 's cabin . |
| 19 | The day that made the appointment to see and Co , Nick after coming out of that meeting with Nick , we called in at the office , myself and my wife , and whilst I was tidying some things up because I 'd got the remainder of the afternoon off , Charles ' wife said to my wife , my wife actually broke down in tears , and she says , What 's up ? |
| 20 | ’ When we rolled up at the incident , it was serious . |
| 21 | We 'll compare it with what we took up at the site . ’ |
| 22 | We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep . |
| 23 | Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 . |
| 24 | We looked back at the tournament leaders on the seventeenth . |
| 25 | Later on , as we relaxed back at the refuge , our peace was shattered by the guardian informing us we were forbidden to eat , cook , or sleep on the terrace . |
| 26 | As we pointed out at the beginning of this campaign , the Labour Party proposes nothing less than to pull up Britain by the roots . |
| 27 | But as we pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , the courts are only one of a series– of filters regulating access to the criminal justice and penal processes and , as such , they are also affected by decisions taken elsewhere in the system . |
| 28 | Buoyed by a tidal wave of beer , around 10 of us ended up at the Silver Dollar saloon , a noisy local landmark full of cowboys . |