Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off .
2 English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire .
3 We got on like a house on fire .
4 Erm Devon , erm and their distaste of their neighbours , or distrust of Cornwall , I know , on one occasion , in the first fortnight , I think , we were in the Y M at Devonport , and er there was an argument with the Duke of Cornwall 's light infantry and er well , I know we got out of a back window of the Y M fairly smartish , erm avoiding trouble .
5 We got out of a job then , nicely
6 Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away .
7 We drew up outside a building which was surrounded by a walled courtyard .
8 We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills :
9 On the way home we stopped off at an alcohol centre and had a pint .
10 Earlier this week we dropped in on a competitor who was going through erm all the motions of getting his erm display ready and we saw what was involved .
11 Instead of retracing our steps , we dropped down into An Lairig , the glen between the ridge and the deceitful Beinn a' Chlachair , mainly because Mr OS map assured us with a neat dotted line that there was a stalkers , path there .
12 we came up with a number of figures .
13 Er I was in the market and we came out with a machine that produced lager from top tap worker .
14 We came out with a record recently called ’ no matter who you vote for the Government always gets in ’
15 You ca n't really , you see we came out into a side door into the old square .
16 We came out into a room in the shape of a star .
17 Some British armoured cars came and began shooting from a distance , and in the chaos I shouted out to four or five brother officers and we drove off in a truck .
18 We trudged around for an hour or so , unable to face the thought of lunch , and found another small hotel near Chamartin ( we were going back by train the next day by the last evening train ) .
19 We joined in with a will .
20 We turned round for a look .
21 A short distance south of Trondheim we turned off down a side road to find a quiet spot for lunch , and in a grove of trees we saw redwing , fieldfare and chaffinch feeding young while siskin , blackcap , chiffchaff and willow warbler were singing all around us .
22 We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television .
23 We walked down to a tank hangar on the far side of the camp where the mass was due to be held , and filed in to take our seats .
24 I asked the same of Benjamin as we walked out of a postern gate of St Bartholomew 's back towards the river , but my master was only half-listening .
25 We finished off with an application of Wella High Form & Finish Spray .
26 Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs .
27 We started out on a pilot project here in late 1984 , with very minor offences .
28 And er we fell out over a fall really or whatever it was .
29 We grew up in a world of chainstore high fashion , middle-of-the-road revolution , cover-version original pop music .
30 Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road .
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