Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A week later we met again in the United Kingdom Championships in Cwmbran , in south Wales . |
| 2 | We met briefly at the Pitts ’ party . |
| 3 | On our way to the fishing grounds off Iceland we passed close to the Faroes . |
| 4 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 5 | He just stood there , a moment of shocked surprise as we got out of the Toyota . |
| 6 | ‘ We did n't know much about ticks , and when we got back to the BBC , we mentioned them to Michael Andrews , author of The Life that Lives on Man , who informed us that , on BCI , ticks carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever ! |
| 7 | It was April , and after a warmer in Poosie Nansie 's , another West of Scotland custom , we thrashed away on the Ayr , casting amongst chunks of ice floating down the river ; frozen stiff , getting colder and colder as the grey day grew older and older . |
| 8 | We staggered out into the Madrid evening ‘ full of piss and vinegar ’ , as Dana said later , and somehow made our way to the Puerta del Sol , where there is a large circular fountain . |
| 9 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
| 10 | Finally we drove up into the Moqqatam Hills whose wide boulevards were mercifully empty . |
| 11 | We drove home round the Brown Clee … |
| 12 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 13 | We drove back across the States at the end of the summer of 1941 and then waited until we could get a passage home , which was n't until the following March . |
| 14 | I think in next weekend possibly er if we drove down on the Sunday evening |
| 15 | When we arrived back at the Grange , Cathy told her father about the visit . |
| 16 | At mid-day we walked up into the Etançons valley . |
| 17 | We served together in the Falklands . |
| 18 | We pressed on down the Gulf and after an hour or so my radio lad in the back gave me a chit — " The Argosy has been found , return to Bahrain " — and so , led by the squadron commander , John A. MacDonald commanding No 55 at that time , we were led back to Bahrain . |
| 19 | The following afternoon we flew inland in the Valentia , which was used to deliver mail . |
| 20 | This time it 's the plane we edited earlier in the Cel editor . |
| 21 | McGiven said : ‘ It 's as if subconsciously we switched off after the Wimbledon game and were caught off guard . |
| 22 | I stuffed the Olympus inside my overalls and we jogged back across the Paddock , studiously ignoring the pillbox off to our left . |
| 23 | It is , as we saw clearly during the Gulf war , the very sophistication of America 's procurement and the new technology of weaponry that demand that we count the Americans as friends and allies rather than trying to go it alone . |
| 24 | The next day we went again to the Rovacchia but this time I insisted we should also go and see the crazy Englishman who had ridden the mule . |
| 25 | We went on to the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and searched here for the Yellow Sword . |
| 26 | ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’ |
| 27 | And they were diffic To start them off , we went in on the Thursday , Thursday morning , and we had to fit all these things together and make 'em work , you see ? |
| 28 | The play was necessarily a matinee , and as we went down past the Albert Hall a siren did go . |
| 29 | Next day we went down to the Nene Valley Railway . |
| 30 | Another point about erm what we did this week , we went down to the Guildhall . |