Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode slowly down the beaten track . |
| 2 | We clung helplessly to the upturned optimist until rescued by the instructor with a motor boat . |
| 3 | ‘ We met then at the local hunt polo match at Down Farm , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 5 | We taxied away from the palm-thatched hut that was proudly styled as Straker 's Cay Airport Terminal Number One . |
| 6 | The misty peaks of Rhum were draped in heavy cloud and shot with rainbows as we passed close to the curious Sgurr of Eigg . |
| 7 | We slanted across to the far bank and ran before the wind , well out of the main current . |
| 8 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 9 | When we got out into the open sea beyond the fiord , we began to see more auks , mainly Brüinnich 's guillemots and little auks , and a lot more fulmar flying around . |
| 10 | He was a chemist himself , or a physicist , working on similar sorts of problems , and I wrote to him and said was he interested in looking at one of my molecules , and he wrote back and said he was very interested because it was , in fact , as I 'd thought , a rather intriguing next step in our understanding and we got together with the Canadian group in Ottowa to try and set up a programme for observing these particular types of molecule in interstellar space . |
| 11 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 12 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 13 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 14 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 15 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 16 | This response leads to ‘ hermeneutics ’ or the interpretative tradition in social thought — hermeneus is the Greek for an interpreter — which we described briefly in the introductory chapter . |
| 17 | As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished . |
| 18 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 19 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 20 | Our intention was to reside half the year at Southall , and the remainder in London , and I remember we moved there on the 26th June , 1830 … |
| 21 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 22 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 23 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 24 | This we mentioned briefly in the last chapter . |
| 25 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
| 26 | On our arrival at the Wildfowl Trust Refuge , we headed straight for the STOP-SPOT board in the foyer . |
| 27 | Setting off from Rosedale village centre ( the bakery there does a rather stunning line in apricot and mincemeat slices ) , we headed up towards the infamous Chimney Bank ( a one in three climb , used for the British National Hillclimb Championships ) . |
| 28 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 29 | We lined up across the broad esplanade between the Prime Minister 's Office and the clear Caribbean Sea . |
| 30 | The following morning , as we wandered along in the warm sunshine , a brilliant , azure sky enhancing the already remarkable scenery , Harish related a little more history . |