Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That we just connected on a kind of mental plane . |
| 2 | The delicious things in the foil-covered dishes had long gone , we were getting drunk nightly on sweet German wine and tins of creamed rice were starting to look attractive , when we finally awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine . |
| 3 | We finally arrived at a figure of two hundred and fifty pounds and he was perfectly agreeable . ’ |
| 4 | Last week we mistakenly referred to a contributor , Dafydd Elis Thomas , as a Plaid Cymru MP . |
| 5 | We deliberately went for a position of responsibility and moderation in this argument , where if I may say so , some other people have n't put the same constraints on themselves . |
| 6 | If we ever got to a siege economy he , Jim , dreaded the effect on our democracy . |
| 7 | so that , when they have to go , they go very very fast and we were advised if we ever went on a bus to sit on the roof |
| 8 | But as well as the playing being better , we also went for a lot of different arrangements and different sounds , using a whole variety of guitars . |
| 9 | We also found with a sense of great relief that there were no mosquitoes ! |
| 10 | Twice we nearly drove into a horse and cart and we passed three lorries . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , we originally started at a place outside o ’ town , called Glencogh . |
| 12 | ‘ We simply paid for a month 's advertising which has not run out . ’ |
| 13 | We then went to a summer school in general relativity at Cornell University in upstate New York . |
| 14 | We then passed beneath a ranch fence : Parque Nacional Torres del Paine , it announced , and in the distance over a range of low brown grasslands were the sharp spires of a dozen oddly-shaped mountains , twisted and contorted and coloured like no other mountains we had ever seen before . |
| 15 | We then came to a stream and followed this to the little village of Le Buet , returning to Chamonix by train . |
| 16 | At the meeting I reported on the position of the gathering health service dispute and we then looked at a number of other pay issues . |
| 17 | Last weekend , as you will know by now , we briefly overlapped with a bevy of V.C.s from British Universities and the Director-General of the British council & his wife before we left Sian . |
| 18 | We recently returned from a holiday in Barbados where we successfully completed the PADI certification for Open Water Diver . |
| 19 | Well yesterday we actually went to a school and you show them how to use with a condom demonstrator and allow them to touch the condoms , and in youth clubs you allow them to do practically anything with them , as long as they 're returned , they can blow them up , or they can |
| 20 | We therefore looked for a solution which was fair and would meet most members expectations . |
| 21 | But we never played to a tape , either . |
| 22 | Four hours a day in a blazing saddle can leave its mark , but my bottom was fine , the terrain being so rough that we never broke into a trot , let alone a gallop . |