Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | A week later we met again in the United Kingdom Championships in Cwmbran , in south Wales . |
| 9 | ‘ That first night when we met again in the restaurant by the harbour . |
| 10 | We met briefly at the Pitts ’ party . |
| 11 | Dr Billy Graham was also busy , and we met briefly in the doorway . |
| 12 | We met briefly in the supermarket in Bamford . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On our way to the fishing grounds off Iceland we passed close to the Faroes . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Er he was from Gedling but we lived together in the army barracks at that particular time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Southern Princess went down around 0300 hours but we got away in the lifeboats . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I thought if we got away from the boat for a while … ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We got here in the nick of time or we would have had the rotten table otherwise . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | I think the last time you were here we were actually in the bottom half of the table but shot up to about seventh and since then once we got close to the people with games in hand and catching on the extra games we 've come up into the top three sometimes . |
| 29 | Yeah well , we got halfway through the vote . |
| 30 | 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 . |