Example sentences of "[prep] we [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the show some of us crowded into the tiny lighting box as Pyke , in his denim dungarees and white T-shirt — he still had long hair — took his seat . |
| 2 | Fifteen minutes later , having banged and bumped our way up another track heading directly for the low hills , the two of us came to the small tin-roofed hut which I had imagined and there , standing before it , was the single link required to bring Balboa 's journey and mine into their final conjunction . |
| 3 | Now remember we all of us came from the background that , you know this world was going to come to an end very soon . |
| 4 | ‘ Then Rodney came over and the two of us went into the back yard and saw Siobhan screaming for help out of a bedroom widow . ’ |
| 5 | On Nancy 's last night at the Centre , half a dozen of us went to the pub . |
| 6 | I saw another on the West Highland Way , near Conic Hill , and friend Ronnie Leask found a dead one when a group of us went to the Jura . |
| 7 | " The three of us went to the flicks , over Badstoneleigh way . |
| 8 | A gang of us went from the |
| 9 | Three of us went in the front , the other three through the back . |
| 10 | ‘ I went in a team of 12 and 11 of us got to the summit after an awful lot of tribulations , exploits , excitement and fierce problems . ’ |
| 11 | Our gesture was not really a religious one , for neither of us believed in the Roman Catholic faith and detested its oppressive hold on the Spanish people , particularly the poor . |
| 12 | I asked what had happened — ‘ Had their been a shuffle ? — or had one of us died in the night ? ’ |
| 13 | Yes , some of us belonged to the Party . |
| 14 | The training we were to receive was later to help us teenagers when most of us enlisted into the services . |
| 15 | Both of us strolled around the camp in an exaggerated swagger , saluting with panache and wearing our berets just above our eyes . |
| 16 | Only a few of us knew about the cave . |
| 17 | The six of us walked to the front and lined up in front of the stage . |
| 18 | Our agitations were of course not so much for ourselves , for we were all comfortably enough off — that is to say we could afford a bottle of wine every now and then and very few of us rose with the dawn and laboured until nightfall — but sprang from a burning sense of general injustice or a generalized sense of burning injustice , whichever quote 's the best or whichever your readers prefer . |
| 19 | The rest of us worked on the roof . |
| 20 | In the afternoon all of us worked on the roof and also took the seat out of Partition E to make a start on the B end . |
| 21 | [ CHRISTINE HAMMOND ] In 1958 there was only one television in our street , and when the Lone Ranger made his weekly appearance it was like a mini-cinema in John Logue 's front parlour with about twenty of us clustered round the little walnut cabinet . |
| 22 | On the following Monday morning three of us arrived at the site . |
| 23 | None of us spoke of the war , in which ( I think ) none of us much believed ; but it was there all the time like ? nagging pain . |
| 24 | Some of us wondered about the moths . |
| 25 | The rest of us descended to the valley bottom and had our lunch in a derelict cottage ( SH 833 142 ) . |
| 26 | Now he was down in Somerset : dairy , herding of course , Friesians , and milking about 20 cows , three of us milked in the morning and two in the afternoon , a long cow shed , of course my heart came in my mouth then , under the knees of all the cows . |
| 27 | Then we split up , half of us for the safe houses round the lakes and the rest of us headed into the mountains . |
| 28 | The high point of the whole trip for me came when seven of us trekked into the mountains to spend the night by a waterfall . |
| 29 | The rest of us crouched under the bank of the river . ’ |
| 30 | For an hour the three of us crouched inside the leaking tent . |