Example sentences of "we [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We visited Paleokastritsa on the western side , famed for its bays shadowed by magnificent cliffs .
2 We named C as the right Cauchy-Green deformation tensor .
3 We bypassed Shaibah of the famous and immortal song Shaibah Blues — which will be belted out by our sons and their sons I hope for evermore — and on to Bahrain where we landed and had a bit of a briefing by the CO of No 84 Squadron based at Shaihali , and so on down the Gulf to look for the City of Glasgow .
4 We reached Chelalo on the Arussi mountains in the afternoon of 5 October ; it was here that we expected to find nyala .
5 Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’
6 ‘ On 16 April we left Greenock on the old aircraft carrier ‘ Argus ’ with twenty-four Hurricanes , twenty-five pilots and an appropriate number of fitters and riggers for Gibraltar ( although we did not know our precise destination at the time , of course .
7 I 'd m , be much more worried if we had Germany outside the European Community .
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