Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity .
2 ‘ So when Gustav Eismark came to the Secretariat , ’ Sims went on , ‘ naturally we looked in the files about him .
3 Daily we waited for the skies to fall .
4 Towards 4 o'clock we returned to the station to catch our train , which was to be hauled by a famous locomotive — ‘ Evening Star ’ .
5 In retrospect , perhaps we played on the heart-strings of our listeners too heavily , but it was , in actual fact , a hearty , healthy exercise in a good cause for the ‘ benefit ’ of the community , and in defiance of the written and spoken diatribes of a federal political bureaucracy .
6 I stayed like that for the minute or so we waited at the Lochgair station platform , and did n't stir again — yawning convincingly for any other passengers who might be watching — until we were crossing the viaduct at Succothmore .
7 So we drove after the youths , who had begun singing again .
8 So we came to the AAA Championships .
9 So we came to the halt , everything worked perfectly and I was astonished how easy this all was , I rather fancy it was the one blade digging gently in and scribing a beautiful arc to port , all the time into wind ; it was the gentlest of one-wheel landings that could ever have been attained .
10 So we went on the rampage .
11 So we went to the locker-room of Portmarnock and Peter introduced me to the great Arnold Palmer .
12 After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period .
13 So we went to the dining room .
14 Well so we went to the I L P and er at this time we started getting er a class together in the , where I worked there was a hundred men and hundred lads , approximately .
15 So we went to the sixty six shop and I said what 's wrong with that , pristine beautiful .
16 So we went to the European Parliament in Strasbourg to ask local MEPs the things their constituents want to know .
17 as you turn it up , it 's gon na pull straight , that bit still did n't do it so we went to the other side , put the cramp the other way and having put that one down and that one up , now if you sight that now through there
18 So we went to the Yorkshire Museum there in the g in the gardens , Willy went along , and er one er and they wanted two men instead of one .
19 So we went into the first preview , in front of an audience , with plenty of confidence .
20 So we went into the shop , said Sorry to bother you , but Mr so-and-so er number seven is there a flat upstairs ?
21 So we went in the door , and just sort of said , yeah we had , we 'd kept it ages had n't we ?
22 So we whipped into the van and off we went .
23 She said I must mention I 've had a few more deliveries from Ercol So we walked into the living room .
24 So we ran into the water and took the body . ’
25 We were disappointed when Sheffield Wednesday turned down our bid for David Hirst so we looked at the situation again and decided that Cantona was the best .
26 I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice …
27 Er so we wrote to the heads of the schools and they were quite willing to accommodate er us and then I found out that er Muslims are already taking assemblies for a few years .
28 So we identified with the hedgehog , and felt responsible for it .
29 cos to be really eager because she said erm that she 'd asked the bloke about staying on permanently and everything and he said that it seemed the people who they were most impress impressed with after Christmas that can stay on permanently so we said on the end , you 've got ta be really eager and everything so she apparently was asking loads of questions
30 So we sat in the swimming pool in Reykjavik knowing that outside we had all the food , all the clothing , the skis , the chutes .
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