Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember it all , but I think we rode along the old railway line . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We met in the early morning . |
| 4 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 5 | We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out . |
| 6 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 7 | We rippled on the yellow sheet , the counterpane — and us — long gone . |
| 8 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 9 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |
| 10 | The main assessments we made about the structural situation of the economy and the direction of change needed for both the economy and society have been verified . |
| 11 | I am afraid that the forecasts we produced under the old regime are now too optimistic . |
| 12 | If the hon. Member for Livingston ever got into power , no doubt we would return to the longer waits that we experienced under the Labour Government . |
| 13 | From the gate we passed into the covered bazaar , and after running a gauntlet of salesmen ( all offering the same smudged postcards printed on blotting paper ) emerged into the open in front of the Naqqar Khana , the House of the Drums . |
| 14 | Chris Buckley and Hans Koeleman were still there at halfway , as we passed before the stony gaze of Nelson 's statue . |
| 15 | We whipped over the northernmost house , across the beach , and thus out to sea again . |
| 16 | " We lived on the top floor of number eighty-two , Tyrone Street , Lower . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 20 | That to me was one of the most rewarding moments over and above when we got into the big game against New Zealand . |
| 21 | ‘ Every time we got to the dying fall of Come Back to Sorrento she wound the damn thing up again . |
| 22 | As we got to the narrow road that runs past the spot where Mr Marr used to watch the night sky , he turned and held up his hands towards the stars . |
| 23 | We got to the Great Wall in about 2 hours , passing through mountain country which is unfortunately not very beautiful at this lime of year — brown , bouldery and inhospitable . |
| 24 | And when we got to the other end one of the lads actually walked in and did a waltz into the school with it which the kids thought was great . |
| 25 | We went with Traffens one year , the first year in fact we went with Traffens and that was super because when we got to the other side sort of , it was then about ten o'clock he said well if you if there 's enough people want it we will transform your transform your seats into bunks and most people wanted and you were able to push the seats so one , two pairs of seats one of the seats went up and the other went down and you had four bunks |
| 26 | When we got to the halfway camp , two of us were not feeling up to the rest of the climb , and spent the night there . |
| 27 | I think it 's along side that , behind that remember we got in the wrong lane one day and we |
| 28 | but I mean it was so good , because remember the letter we got from the wee boy with the drawing ? |
| 29 | As we argued in the previous chapter , this profits squeeze fundamentally reflected overaccumulation . |
| 30 | Next day we checked into the National Park centre in St Arnaud to tell the authorities of our hiking plans . |