Example sentences of "and we [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |
| 2 | The time flew past and we got onto the ferry at 4.00pm and sailed at 5.00pm . |
| 3 | we finished the story and we got onto the rhymes I presume and a little body sidled in through the win through the door and he sort of sat there looking pathetic you know , I said would you like to come and sit on my knee ? |
| 4 | We were given a carrier bag containing a block of chocolate , crackers , corned beef , condensed milk , and we got on the train at Lime Street station . |
| 5 | Then the people moved aside and we passed through the smiling , cheering crowd , some of whom I noticed had tears in their eyes . |
| 6 | I slipped out through the double gates of the burial ground to the Horse Fair , and we crept into the loft over the stable there . |
| 7 | She took a torch from the shelf and we crept into the night , children on a midnight dare . |
| 8 | Er but there was an implication by implication and the , the particular point was the extent to which surplus water draining off fields er was to the problem and we learnt from the Southern Water representative that there is a an area of uncertainty erm and divided responsibility perhaps erm about the ditches , about the highways in that vicinity . |
| 9 | and we had like the ta trestle tables in all these alcoves and people came and actually booked a meal |
| 10 | He had a Corporal with him and we doubled to the front of Brigade H.Q and clambered aboard a jeep that had a trailer attached . |
| 11 | I pushed open the door and we looked at the hole in the floor . |
| 12 | We went out there and we looked at the bone , we compared the bone and we returned that bone . ’ |
| 13 | Harvey produced a couple of cigars and we looked at the glow above the dark city and smoked , and Harvey said , ‘ It 's a millionaire 's toy , ’ and I said , ‘ Yes , with eight million working parts . ’ |
| 14 | of Friday and we looked at the individual steps but we know , everybody says yes we ask the business , we came across and to put Gareth , can you take it through and explain what it is , and explain each stage so let's hear from Gareth then . |
| 15 | And we only found it by chance , you know how you go off to think oh I 'll , I 'll go and find a coffee or something , and we found this restaurant at lunch time and had a coffee there and we looked at the menu and , you know , we , we could n't believe it ! |
| 16 | Sam pulled the door open and we looked into the scene that was all too familiar to my eyes ; an expanse of muddy water , the hole in the ceiling overhead and the curtain of iron mesh across the exit to the river ; a dock big enough for a moderate-sized cabin cruiser or three or four smaller boats . |
| 17 | Benjamin waved me over and we looked through the open gate . |
| 18 | And we looked through the side windows and there 's not a thing on the ruddy counters , it 's cleared out . |
| 19 | Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before . |
| 20 | It was exciting — they were good advertisements , and we waited for the first children to come . |
| 21 | The hareems , including ours , started to arrive about 9.30 and we drifted into the women 's majlis dressed in our best . |
| 22 | Sunday dawned dry and we gathered in the church again for morning prayer ; followed by breakfast . |
| 23 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 24 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |
| 25 | Towards the late afternoon , exhausted by its own violence , it began to die slowly and soon the ‘ great noise for nothing ’ became a gasping puff , The doors were opened and we stared at the drifts of dust which had banked against houses and cars in much the same way that snow drifts against walls and trees . |
| 26 | There was no real enthusiasm and we launched in the training programme in a rather unstructured way . |
| 27 | Nigel rejoined me , dressed , and we returned to the car . |
| 28 | Thankfully , Benjamin agreed and we returned to the manor house . |
| 29 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 30 | I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy . |