Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 2 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 3 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 4 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 5 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 6 | Erm Devon , erm and their distaste of their neighbours , or distrust of Cornwall , I know , on one occasion , in the first fortnight , I think , we were in the Y M at Devonport , and er there was an argument with the Duke of Cornwall 's light infantry and er well , I know we got out of a back window of the Y M fairly smartish , erm avoiding trouble . |
| 7 | We got out of a job then , nicely |
| 8 | He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , we got off to a bad start . |
| 10 | Sarah said : ‘ Although we got off to a shaky start everyone is getting it together now . |
| 11 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
| 12 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 13 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
| 14 | We are taken through the political and social development of a country which the US regards as its gateway to South America — and we wind up in a situation little different from the past in which an elite group monopolized economic and political power . |
| 15 | We sit around for a bit , chatting . |
| 16 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 17 | We drew up outside a building which was surrounded by a walled courtyard . |
| 18 | We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales . |
| 19 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 20 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 21 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 22 | What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month |
| 23 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 24 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 25 | When we 're talking to the people on the phone we home in on a thousand pound . |
| 26 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 27 | On the way home we stopped off at an alcohol centre and had a pint . |
| 28 | We walk over to a dusty square where over a hundred women , migrants from the countryside and recently closed state mines , are digging and paving with picks and shovels . |
| 29 | The French are just laughing at us as we stumble around in a fog . ’ |
| 30 | We sailed on into a warm enveloping darkness . |