Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on we found out the perimeter fence had been burnt down and the festival is banned here next year . |
| 2 | We filled in the acceptance form and phoned the school about a visit . |
| 3 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 4 | As we drove up the lime tree avenue , a traditional feature of Irish country houses , the rain was reducing visibility to a few inches . |
| 5 | We drove down the Angel Bank skirting Ludlow , and then as we turned into Corvedale the sun came out and it cleared … |
| 6 | We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village . |
| 7 | Next we opened up the loading door . |
| 8 | The snow crunched a protest under the car wheels , as we turned down the country road which led to our home , thoughts of a hot cup of tea uppermost in our minds . |
| 9 | We soon reached an Inn at a place called Hardraw , and descending from our vehicles , after warming ourselves by the cottage fire we walked up the brook side to take a view of a third waterfall … |
| 10 | We walked down the woodland ride , past clumps of early purple orchids , past a wild service tree , and past ditches in which grew the tall pendulous sedge , its attractive female flowers swaying in the breeze . |
| 11 | On the return journey from Porto we flew up the west coast of Portugal , over the places we 'd cycled through , before cutting through to La Coruňa to land just before nightfall . |
| 12 | We flew down the moorland road like a bird , disturbing the sleeping ducks at the tarn . |
| 13 | Not when I was there of course it was er it was er er radio was there you know and we we called up the shore station at Ered at nine o'clock one o'clock and five o'clock every day unless there was er a fault in the radio which we were usually able to overcome . |
| 14 | And that 's why we brought in the Child Support Agency with the support of the Labour Party . |
| 15 | ‘ We thought up the collection idea and checked into all the legalities . |
| 16 | Because people who 've been in the press for quite a long time were using this before we took over the telephone system . |
| 17 | Video producer Rob Small reveals : ‘ When we took down the lighting rig at the end of the shoot soot from the candles left black patches on the ceiling . |
| 18 | Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club ! |
| 19 | To show that pivoting in a compact tableau is just an application of the methods of Chapter 2 , we wrote out the pivot row explicitly . |
| 20 | We searched out the station master at the station . |