Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course , we duly kept the appointment . |
| 2 | We recently returned from a holiday in Barbados where we successfully completed the PADI certification for Open Water Diver . |
| 3 | It was hard , but we badly needed the money the holiday lettings were bringing us . |
| 4 | Arsenal paid a bargain £40,000 for Peter in March 1981 after our 1st Division return had gone sour and we badly needed the cash , but he came back to Selhurst Park on loan in October 1983 and his tenacious and skilful experience was a key reason for our 2nd Division survival in that difficult season . |
| 5 | The next day we companionably photocopied the notes together . |
| 6 | When we eventually reached the Taj , I bent down to examine the inlay on the tombs more closely . |
| 7 | We eventually got the repairs done free of charge , despite the fact that we were on the verge of receiving a repair bill totalling £100 . |
| 8 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 9 | We eventually left the outback by way of some tiny townships , widely spaced , and came down onto the Queensland coast at the busy city of Townsville with a modern cylindrical building surmounted by a silvery roof feature . |
| 10 | Sally , after much thought , bought a small rosewood clock for her flat and we eventually found the car and headed for home . |
| 11 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
| 12 | And we 're just looking at the route to In the previous er conditions of service we merely mentioned the time for which you were n't entitled to sick pay and the time after which you were entitled to full sick pay which we defined , we did n't define the route . |
| 13 | We gingerly broke the ice in the washing bowl , washed , changed and joined the others in the small refectory below . |
| 14 | We only played the pith and peel , the pieces at either end … ’ |
| 15 | We only got the message this morning " |
| 16 | Mena did in her way , it was n't enough , she needed an educated person to put her case to — everybody ought to be allowed to put their case — we did n't even try to hear hers , we only heard the tone . |
| 17 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 18 | We only saw the adult shearwaters at sea and they looked a bit like a small Manx shearwater , but with a brownish tinge to the upper parts . |
| 19 | Heaven knows who we used to see at the Fitzroy Street parties : we did n't know half the people that were there : we only knew the family . |
| 20 | Because prior to that we only had the Lloyd George nineteen eleven scheme . |
| 21 | Kathy said : ‘ We only opened the Centre in January and we are trying to bring clients in slowly so they have time to adjust . |
| 22 | We only used the road to the back of the house once , on arrival , otherwise we came and went by boat from the dock . |
| 23 | If further proof be needed of the man 's mythical status , it is amply provided by his wife who testifies that he ‘ took the house down with his hands — we only used the JCB to move the rubble ’ . |
| 24 | Although there was another hour before the sun went down , we suddenly heard the sound of the ship 's gun . |
| 25 | ‘ We suddenly heard the place was being repossessed in 14 days , ’ says Danny . |
| 26 | IN A quiz published this week in TODAY and based on the popular TV show Have I Got News For You , we wrongly attributed the programme to Channel Four . |
| 27 | We literally saw the whales heading into the sunset as they swam towards deeper water . |
| 28 | Sometimes we literally stopped the traffic . |
| 29 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's mine and we just saw the dog walking off with it , ’ the golfer replied . |