Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly , we rode away into the night . |
| 2 | On the motor bike we rode all over the countryside , to Bathampton , Bradford-on-Avon to see the old tithe barn , to Bristol to visit the Llandoger Trow , and as far as Cheltenham Spa , Leamington and Gloucester . |
| 3 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 4 | Wriggling in our seats we gazed dumbly at the teacher , as dogs will whose owner is eating a slice of cake ( Miss ! |
| 5 | We consulted widely with the Membership before submitting our evidence to John Warne . |
| 6 | We met outside on the landing . |
| 7 | When we met again at the funeral , I knew that I had to see you again soon . |
| 8 | ‘ That first night when we met again in the restaurant by the harbour . |
| 9 | Dr Billy Graham was also busy , and we met briefly in the doorway . |
| 10 | We met briefly in the supermarket in Bamford . |
| 11 | Erm , I seem to remember that when we met earlier in the year and you were looking forward to , to , to this year as a whole , I think you er , indicated that it was going to be a good year and I think you also suggested , if I remember right , that you thought the better part of that improvement would be seen in the second half rather than the first . |
| 12 | Something similar must have happened to Middleton 's crew because we met together at the station and took the train on the last lap to Cambridge . |
| 13 | ‘ I was born Rose Mary Brooks at Belton on the 16th November 1876 ; and after I married George Edward Pettingill we lived away from the Island . |
| 14 | Er he was from Gedling but we lived together in the army barracks at that particular time . |
| 15 | As we receded from the mainland we ever sighted new mountain ranges : we saw them growing fainter and dipping out of our sight ; to the southward the Skye hills lent a charm , and the Isle of Lewis loomed bigger and broader , till we steamed alongside of the pier and were landed ‘ mid the curing of a fine catch of herring taken during the night . |
| 16 | However , I am afraid we got nowhere with the salvage of crashed aircraft problem because of the legal problems of encroaching upon the law of the sea . |
| 17 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 18 | We did our jobs , we fell into bed exhausted , and in our off-duty moments we got away from the camp as much as possible . |
| 19 | His gargantuan repast seemed to have put The Fat Controller in a better mood and avuncularity seeped back into his tones the further we got away from the pizzeria . |
| 20 | I thought if we got away from the boat for a while … ’ |
| 21 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 22 | We got here in the nick of time or we would have had the rotten table otherwise . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's like you were just out there to work , not mess about , so we got more into the music than going out and celebrating . |
| 24 | Yeah well , we got halfway through the vote . |
| 25 | As , on many visits to the schools , we argued far into the evening , several Commissioners and their hosts became unclear as to whether Public Schools should be abolished because they were very good or because they were very bad . |
| 26 | We referred above to the term as the systematic component of an accelerationist inflationary process : from an educated prediction of the magnitude of we should be able to make a reasonably good stab at inferring the value of . |
| 27 | It is extremely important , therefore , to follow the general principles on meal planning that we described earlier in the chapter . |
| 28 | And er we moved away to the side of the platform to get out from underneath whatever had happened and had a look around . |
| 29 | We moved away from the house and out of the fog , which was creeping slowly along the ground and hiding the path from our view . |
| 30 | On reaching the crossroads , we moved quickly to the right , and up the very dusty road leading to the village . |