Example sentences of "we [vb past] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises . |
| 2 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 3 | The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate . |
| 4 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 5 | ‘ We clustered at the narrow doorway , resting our useless hands upon our heads as substitutes for steel helmets . |
| 6 | However , we should not do that if we joined at the wrong exchange rate — as happened , as the hon. Member for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) explained , with eastern Germany . |
| 7 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 8 | As some hon. Members may know , I have some interest in that subject , and I hope that I shall be able to have an Adjournment debate in which to discuss the process by which we arrived at the present stage of the project . |
| 9 | We finished just before we arrived at the main gate of the chateau . |
| 10 | We arrived at the little house in the evening and already there were a few people there . |
| 11 | The BX 4x4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had , reluctantly , to admit that it was time to head for home . |
| 12 | The BX 4×4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had reluctantly to admit that it was time to head for home . |
| 13 | We arrived at the French Riviera town of Frejus after an overnight journey on the Motorail . |
| 14 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
| 15 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 16 | We started at the old junction with the Cambrian Line , Cemmaes Road , and immediately found a problem . |
| 17 | We stared at the fallen magazine . |
| 18 | When Hellen and I first came to live near London , the first concert we attended at the Royal Festival Hall was a performance of Beethoven 's Piano Concerto No 4 , with Robert Casadesus at the piano and Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra . |
| 19 | We sang at the weekly service held at six o'clock each Thursday for the old gentlemen who were inmates of the hospital . |
| 20 | We looked at the industrial distribution of " users " , at whether there had been any increase in their numbers since 1980 and at differences between user and non-user establishments in terms of their size , output , performance , industrial relations and labour force characteristics . |
| 21 | In Chapter 3 we looked at the general interrelation of stylistic effects over a passage of some extent ; in Chapter 2 we considered the " macro-effects " of style as manifested in whole texts . |
| 22 | Okay so last week we looked at the participatory model of democracy which in essence of Russo 's Theory in three ways . |
| 23 | We looked at the total incidence of gonorrhoea ; the number of cases of gonorrhoea found in men overall and in homosexual men ; the male to female ratio of cases of gonorrhoea ; and the number of new cases of HIV infection diagnosed in homosexual men ( table ) . |
| 24 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 25 | We looked at the central role feelings play in our lives , and at the difficulties women with bulimia often have in expressing them . |
| 26 | We looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 27 | Admittedly such corollaries as ‘ Face facts ’ , which we introduced at the very start of the discussion in the first chapter , do support their authority by the urgency of factual awareness in choices of means . |
| 28 | we discussed at the previous meeting . |
| 29 | We lunched at the Royal Circle , immaculate and relaxed except for the restless pacings of the under-employed waiters . |
| 30 | That 's what we said at the general election . |