Example sentences of "we [vb past] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rippled on the yellow sheet , the counterpane — and us — long gone . |
| 2 | " We lived on the top floor of number eighty-two , Tyrone Street , Lower . " |
| 3 | Er hundred and forty pound for the coach to Yorkshire which we got on the other side , a hundred and six pound back so the club er sponsored that , a hundred and thirty four pound , and thirty four pound . |
| 4 | Two years ago we reported on the seismic survey work being carried out in the Solent to determine if oil drilling there would be profitable . |
| 5 | ‘ But we do have the buckle we found on the icy moat , and I know who it belongs to . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing belonging to your friend Willard matches up with the fibres we found on the dead girl . ’ |
| 7 | Before reaching the town of Rock the path runs through the only sand dunes that we encountered on the whole walk . |
| 8 | Richard said : ‘ The fierce weather we encountered on the third leg has tested us to our very limits . |
| 9 | We parked on the opposite side of the street from the Regal Arms . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 11 | Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days . |
| 12 | So they actually bench marked the maintenance phase of the project and found this approach to be three hundred percent more productive than the approach we showed on the previous slide . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The cliffs near our cottage , we discovered on the first day of that holiday , were wild and forbidding : of ancient , dark volcanic rock . |
| 15 | We landed on the first shelf . |
| 16 | Next , we worked on the automatic parsing of the LOB Corpus , and on the improvement of the automatic tagging system . |
| 17 | Eventually we all agreed we wanted this fierce bark that was both harsh and metallic , after which it was just a case of refining it down until we settled on the precise tone we ended up using . |
| 18 | On our way we called on the established church minister , who had been the means of our coming to the Island , and with whom we had special business , and were immensely tickled to find that he had actually fled ! |
| 19 | Erm , I really feel that this consultation is coming more than a too late because we started on the slippery slope when the consortium was er first dreamed of o , you know about a year ago and set up in April and that really this is the sort of the inexorable next move , and this consultation is far far too late ! |
| 20 | We knew on the other hand that Redbridge and Waltham Forest was not a competent authority and it could not have achieved this scale of planning . |
| 21 | We went on the top road . |
| 22 | However , new things were to come as we departed on the tiny ferry to Værøy , the penultimate island in the Lofoten chain . |
| 23 | You 'd have to do what we did on the other page . |
| 24 | Quite probably you will have discovered that you put much more emphasis than we did on the immediate problem of trying to discover whether it was Chrissie or Fred who was telling the truth . |
| 25 | We paused on the small bridge which led to the ticket office , I looked at the now derelict railway cottages which stood silent , lost and forlorn . |
| 26 | We waited on the top-floor landing for a minute or two , but there seemed no coming or going from the other flats . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Although the presentation of information on the instruments or cathode ray tubes is infinitely better than it was in those old aircraft , the basic type of ‘ director ’ information is little different from what we had on the old zero-reader . |
| 29 | This was very lucky and one of the two strokes of luck we had on the whole job . |
| 30 | 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 . |