Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 We rose late the next morning .
2 We rose early the next morning awoken by the clanging of the abbey bells .
3 We rose early the next morning .
4 We woke early the next morning .
5 You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use
6 Such knowledge will be the basis of the advice we give in the next chapter for promoting adjustment after a time-zone transition .
7 Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold …
8 I can remember him saying , as we walked down the second fairway , ‘ Willie , if I can win these people ( the gallery ? over from Jack [ Nicklaus ] so that they want me to win , I 'll win for them . ’
9 Hence we present here the first rationalization of active-centre disallowed Ramachandran angles that are likely to play a direct role in protein function .
10 We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day .
11 Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from .
12 We flew out the next day .
13 Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ .
14 It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen .
15 It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun .
16 But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets .
17 Cos we but we did n't the last one ?
18 It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones .
19 Overall , however , the expedition was a great success : ‘ Most of our aims were achieved , as — among other objectives — we confirmed the presence of five threatened species of mammal , we carried out the first study of bats in the area , and we gathered valuable information on the flora of the area , including the discovery of a new species , ’ she continued .
20 We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog .
21 Whether nationalization improves the efficiency of resource allocation , or whether we would do better to privatize existing public corporations , is an issue we take up the next chapter .
22 Did n't we have a similar streak about four/five years ago , i.e. the last year Bremner was in charge — this saw us shoot up the second division before an ignominous defeat against Shrewsbury Town ( who ? ) saw us plummet to mid table yet again .
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