Example sentences of "we [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We gazed at the figure in the utmost fascination . |
| 2 | We met at the soundcheck . |
| 3 | We met at the north fork of the Sacramento River , the longest river in California . |
| 4 | We met at the hotel yesterday . |
| 5 | ‘ We met at the end of the war , ’ Sharpe said as though that explained everything . |
| 6 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 7 | We met at the youth centre in Chelmsford , checked that everybody had passports , E111 's ( health forms for the European Community ) and luggage and set off for Ramsgate . |
| 8 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 9 | His words when we met at the start of the Championship kept coming back : ‘ Willie , I 'm going to win the Open for you this week . |
| 10 | ‘ Why , that 's no great problem while we remain at the abbot 's lodging , since half of Shrewsbury and a good part of the shire goes in and out freely at the abbey , and you may ask an audience whenever you will , and always find yourself one of three or four , various enough to keep any man in countenance . |
| 11 | ‘ Sure , there were mistakes we made at the beginning . ’ |
| 12 | Yes well quite simply , I mean we know all the replies from the bridal magazines , I mean we know what we sell at the Christmas fair and what we sell Christmas cracker-wise . |
| 13 | Cos we lived at the top of the second hill , opposite erm Doctor s er house , the famous eye surgeon . |
| 14 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 15 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 16 | Well , we got at the back of th the erm , shop there 's we got this room and it 's got this walk-in freezer erm fridge , and |
| 17 | I mean , tha that 's the problem we got at the moment . |
| 18 | Well I hope you enjoyed this morning now what I want to do this afternoon , we 're gon na break for lunch now and then can we reconvene at the syndicate rooms at two o'clock |
| 19 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 20 | We sit at the table for the read-through , which is efficient but lifeless . |
| 21 | The best way , then , to deal with the complaint that psychological-cum-biological theories of the state are too vague is to attempt a combination between these theories and those we reviewed at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 22 | To the unwanted social and psychological fall-out produced by the earlier hiding strategies are now added various kinds of physical discomfort : the ‘ psychosomatic ’ conditions we reviewed at the start of this chapter . |
| 23 | Together we shouted at the man , and told him we would tell this story all over London so that his name would be hated . |
| 24 | Returning to the questions we posed at the outset of this enquiry , we would , therefore , have to conclude that anti-Semitism , despite its pivotal place in Hitler 's ‘ world view ’ , was of only secondary importance in cementing the bonds between Führer and people which provided the Third Reich with its popular legitimation and base of plebiscitary acclamation . |
| 25 | AS WE reported at the beginning of September , an increase in the fixed price agreed each year between Champagne 's growers and merchants seemed inevitable , putting further pressure on prices that are already affected by rising demand . |
| 26 | As we reported at the time : |
| 27 | Our six case-study schools whose procedures for combating truancy we report at the end , regularly monitored attendance and absentee pupils rates and were alert to ways of keeping disaffected pupils in school . |
| 28 | As we mentioned at the beginning of this chapter , aggregate demand is the total demand for all final goods and services in an economy over a period of time and consists of the sum of the demands of consumers , firms , the government and foreigners . |
| 29 | How do we know at the end of six months whether they are performing well or not . |
| 30 | And I can see no other way of proceeding than that in which we proposed at the moment . |