Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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31 ’ When we rolled up at the incident , it was serious .
32 We 'll compare it with what we took up at the site . ’
33 We struggled basically at the back .
34 We were to have an even closer encounter with a bear before we left Edgeøya , when we went ashore at the south end of the island at Andre/1e Tangen .
35 We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep .
36 As we drove back into London and towards Toby 's house we worried away at the problem , to such an extent that the issues became more , rather than less , obscure .
37 Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 .
38 We looked back at the tournament leaders on the seventeenth .
39 We looked across at the mountains and then at ourselves , and a smile split our dusty faces , then burst into a laugh .
40 You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ .
41 We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system .
42 Later on , as we relaxed back at the refuge , our peace was shattered by the guardian informing us we were forbidden to eat , cook , or sleep on the terrace .
43 As we pointed out at the beginning of this campaign , the Labour Party proposes nothing less than to pull up Britain by the roots .
44 But as we pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , the courts are only one of a series– of filters regulating access to the criminal justice and penal processes and , as such , they are also affected by decisions taken elsewhere in the system .
45 As we sat there at the wedding-feast I held to the pedestrian belief that the rustling jetsam at my feet was merely the accumulation of champagne foil .
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