Example sentences of "we [vb past] on the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Richard said : ‘ The fierce weather we encountered on the third leg has tested us to our very limits .
2 Yes , Chair , it 's er , remember at the , the last meeting we touched on the first part of the report , the worry about the issue of closing shops , and rural post offices and garages , and there 's considerable interest from all members er , as to what could be done .
3 The cliffs near our cottage , we discovered on the first day of that holiday , were wild and forbidding : of ancient , dark volcanic rock .
4 We landed on the first shelf .
5 The relative positions of the players changed and changed again over the second half and , as we waited on the eighteenth tee , Miguel had edged yet again one shot ahead of Jack .
6 I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy .
7 The crowd had now swelled to huge numbers as we stood on the 16th tee .
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