Example sentences of "[verb] we [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we had finished laughing we sat round the embers drinking tea until the first green light of dawn showed in the eastern sky . |
| 2 | We relied heavily on subscriptions and donations and were delighted by the loyalty and support we received throughout the year . |
| 3 | As the truck filled we leant over the side and talked about our trips . |
| 4 | With glasses replenished we sat in the CHAB studio where we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor and a number of other leading citizens who had stayed behind in the hotel to hear the broadcast . |
| 5 | Yeah , they 're all listed are n't but as we came we came in the way we would come , I 'm a bit ignorant , so I suppose we were |
| 6 | er I mean we smoked before the war |
| 7 | Well , well I mean we called in the other day |
| 8 | Well it did because once you know we went over the moors |
| 9 | yeah and we went round , you know we went round the |
| 10 | You know we went in the health shop , I went in the health shop with you that time , went to buy that yoghurt ? |
| 11 | I think that that is , is something that you know we looked at the you know the Mirror that you know while thirty years ago they were doing short punchy stories and they maintained that , that there was actually |
| 12 | But you know we rose to the challenge and now there 's almost anything we can do er on the machines that I bought . |
| 13 | Because if you remember we wrote to the Department of Environment putting our views forward , when the commission was just about to get . |
| 14 | I remember we saw in the other shop It happened again . |
| 15 | I think it 's along side that , behind that remember we got in the wrong lane one day and we |
| 16 | ‘ Like we saw in the magazine . |
| 17 | Even that very first night , at that party at the Estwicks ’ place , you were wishing we lived in the days when a man could keep his mistress hidden away . ’ |
| 18 | Later , when the boys had gone below deck to sleep we sat in the bow and trailed our hands in the warm water . |
| 19 | ‘ A lot of the lead-based paints we used in the old days would n't be permitted today , ’ he pointed out . |
| 20 | " Your anthropologists laugh at us for saying we came from the stars . |
| 21 | He normally takes great care to keep us informed of the central part he plays in the worlds of affairs and ideas . |
| 22 | Before we went we met in the family room , Tremayne pretending nonchalance and looking unexpectedly sophisticated in his dinner jacket : grey hair smooth in wings , strong features composed , bulky body slimmed by ample expert tailoring . |
| 23 | That meant we worked in the same building on different floors . |
| 24 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 25 | och , do you know I was five minutes late , but that was different I was twenty five minutes late , I I did n't even ask her why , cos I knew we 'd in the door like as I 'm walking through it . |
| 26 | I thought we wrote off the Foxbat some time ago . |
| 27 | This , in turn , improved my singles game considerably and I won the Baghdad Open one year playing against Indians in the main , who were horrified that I insisted we played in the heat of a Baghdad afternoon when it was normally well over 110° in the shade , and there was no shade — mad dogs and Scotsmen ! |
| 28 | There is a description of the home of " The Pious Labourer " who J. C. McNeill tells us lived beside the Loch of the Crannog near Laggan farm , which was later drained and farmed . |
| 29 | There is a description of the home of " The Pious Labourer " who J. C. McNeill tells us lived beside the Loch of the Crannog near Laggan farm , which was later drained and farmed . |
| 30 | Our brief but interesting tour completed we returned to the landing place , negotiating the slippery descent with caution . |