Example sentences of "[prep] we [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen thousand feet below us flowed the Hunza River and edging it , like fine purfling , the Karakoram Highway . |
| 2 | Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge , bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs . |
| 3 | After watching the slaughter of three bulls — there were four more to come — some of us left the stadium to catch the bus back to Los Angeles . |
| 4 | So the three of us left the cul-de-sac which was Victoria Road . |
| 5 | It 's very cheap ov houses are very cheap and both of us left the job and down there . |
| 6 | Then just before the last of us left the island , a fisherman brought one in , lashed to the side of his canoe . |
| 7 | The three of us reached the camp by the stream on the following afternoon . |
| 8 | Later most of us spent the night on the floor in our sleeping bags . |
| 9 | Anyhow , ’ he continued , ‘ the three of us spent the day locked in consultation , as Marc called it , the result being that he came charging to my rescue , routed the two con-merchants , who thought they 'd got me over a barrel , and generally behaved like the perfect human being he is . ’ |
| 10 | But neither of us had the nerve to confide in anyone else about his abuse . |
| 11 | Neither of us had the time . |
| 12 | We were all very young and shy and none of us had the courage to approach and speak to them . |
| 13 | Most of us had the satisfaction of looking just as good as — and in some cases , a damn sight better than — one of the hottest Hollywood properties around . |
| 14 | Early on , someone said to me that nobody really took AIDS seriously until someone they knew died through it and when the first ex-volunteer died , many of us felt the shock waves . |
| 15 | Some of us resented the level of continual commitment to the home which was expected of us . |
| 16 | ‘ None of us expected the single to take off the way it did , ’ adds Dermot . |
| 17 | None of us expected the hospital workers to save us from Thatcher , and yet they tried harder than most . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , we had just missed the 1400 steam departure from Butterley but most of us took the footpath to Swanwick Junction , the main museum site , to view the many and varied locomotives and other items that spanned a large period of railway history . |
| 19 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 20 | I thought I would get a job there but I could n't for a few months and er , my wife and two children joined me there and my brother 's wife joined us there , and two of us bought the house in Luton . |
| 21 | Most of us worked the Lancashire vineyards all year and a few freak redheads died . |
| 22 | Even then , none of us suspected the scale of his misdeeds against the women he claimed he wanted to help . |
| 23 | Besides , neither of us liked the idea of the swim out to the Nocturne . |
| 24 | As most of us watched the Rodney King verdict and its horrifying aftermath on TV , journalist James Ryan and photographer Andrew Macpherson drove separately into South Central LA to record their views of the riots ; meanwhile , KRS-One , Heavy D , NWA and other rappers give their comments |
| 25 | On 22 June , a Saturday , about ten of us manhandled the Wilsons ' caravan on to the Lecky Road , the main artery through the Bogside , and parked it broadside in the middle of the road , stopping all the traffic . |
| 26 | Matt 's pretty fit from all those outdoor movies where they put olive oil on his pectorals ( though not as fit as he ought to be ) and the two of us gave the crew a bit of a hard time , said union rules did n't apply in the Jungle , and so on . |
| 27 | Most of us used the computer ; we got to a point where you had to book your time . |
| 28 | Both of us loved The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte Yonge . |
| 29 | Some of us overcame the lethargy of our idleness to learn new skills ( this was decades , obviously , before self-improvement became fashionable ) . |
| 30 | A rustle behind us broke the silence . |