Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode along like three troubadours from some romantic tale . |
| 2 | At Lajpath Nagar we met up with two musicians , a pair of elderly men , one of whom played a harmonium , the other a pair of tabla drums . |
| 3 | We eat up to ten times the amount of salt we actually need ; on average about two teaspoonfuls a day , half of which is added by manufacturers during food processing . |
| 4 | We sold out within three months and have reprinted it twice . |
| 5 | We produced up to 10000 sterile hybrid males per day . |
| 6 | The routine at Aubagne was the same every day ; we got up at 4.30 am , washed , shaved and paraded outside before a breakfast of coffee and bread in the main cookhouse ; then we cleaned the barrack rooms for an hour and paraded again at 7.30 am for the allocation of the day 's duties . |
| 7 | We got up at 5.30 am and it was grim . |
| 8 | We got up at eight and I |
| 9 | We got up at 6 a.m. to start making bacon and tomato butties for the Co-op Bakery and homeward-bound shift workers . |
| 10 | We did miss them in the final , but the other girls responded magnificently , so we got through by 12–11 in the end . ’ |
| 11 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 12 | we got back at five and oh dear me , there they were . |
| 13 | By the time we got back in 1979 the CPRS had already changed beyond recognition . |
| 14 | Or had we travelled out to one of the villages ? |
| 15 | Now , if we round off to three decimal places , we find that F can be written as the unit rank matrix , proportional to unc unc If we now revert to A and postmultiply by unc unc Thus , 1 = 25 . |
| 16 | We have now changed our statistics to come into line with industrial practice and the recommendations of the Health and Safety Executive , by measuring incidents per 1,000,000 hours , [ rather than per 100,000 hours we used up to 1992 ] . |
| 17 | We slip out for five minutes and the lot will be sold before we get back . ’ |
| 18 | So we home in on five thousand booklets . |
| 19 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 20 | We woke up at three o'clock in the morning and Ian was the other way round |
| 21 | Although , when we came back from one of our canters , Cool Ground was very bright . |
| 22 | Many people were outraged when I lined up a side with ten forwards in our cup game with Hatton Matadors , but remember we came back from 7–0 down . |
| 23 | During my time at EMI , we received up to fifty tapes a week . |
| 24 | We joined up with three other girls in the Manor House at Old Wolverton . |
| 25 | At Bergheim — three houses and a gas station — we turned on to one of those narrow tracks that do n't even get a farm road numeral . |
| 26 | And we finish up with eight women . |
| 27 | ‘ As you know , Mr Caretaker , we lock up at seven thirty in summer and , ’ said Williams insultingly , ‘ at five thirty in winter . |
| 28 | If not can we move on to six which er in Mr 's shorthand is area likely to meet Greater York needs . |
| 29 | But well can we move on to two and I must confess erm I 'm not quite clear what is meant by this one . |
| 30 | The 1930s recession took about 10 years to work through ; but have we now even recovered the position we wee in during 1979 ? |