Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been nearly 5 o'clock when , having finally got the cars across that ferry , we eventually drove into Martigues in dazzling late afternoon sunshine to see the fishing boats come in . |
| 2 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |
| 3 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 4 | How we survived remains a mystery , but when we eventually arrived at Backakeldy , we were told that the coastguard had been alerted and that our mad passage across the barriers had been watched in amazement by worried would-be rescuers . |
| 5 | We eventually arrived in Dunkirk at 2.00pm with a three hour wait until our ferry sailed . |
| 6 | I used to , no I only went away on er , we only went to Rotterdam once , that 's all . |
| 7 | Unfortunately we only got within 15km from the town . |
| 8 | But we only looked in B & Q for that did n't we ? |
| 9 | We only realised on Monday Sunderland were likely to bring 6,000 fans with them . |
| 10 | ( Our sample was obviously biased because we only spoke to couples who felt secure in the knowledge that the adoption had just been completed . ) |
| 11 | ‘ We literally started with sheets of metal and welded them together , ’ said Ron , who works at Courtaulds Chemicals in Stretford , Manchester . |
| 12 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 13 | he certainly found me and from there we just went from strength to strength and erm were still have together . |
| 14 | In fact the whizzy-wig , whenever you use it , you do n't have to actually draw a diagram , that map that we just saw with boxes and arrows and things , you could draw that on the spreadsheet with the whizzy-wig . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch . |
| 16 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 17 | Erm David we 've just obviously completed a , a plan of your future , we just looked at areas which we |
| 18 | We just seemed to time it wrong with the weather . |
| 19 | At first we just stared in disbelief . |
| 20 | We never spoke we just worked with signals . |
| 21 | Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed . |
| 22 | We soon went to bed . |
| 23 | We finally arrived at Caboolture Airport near Brisbane thirteen months after leaving London , greeted by Australian friends and the press . |
| 24 | We finally arrived in Calgary on the afternoon of the second day , thus inaugurating the first flight of the western Canada air mail service . |
| 25 | We usually went to Switzerland , Holland , Germany , Denmark , Sweden . |
| 26 | We always thought of Headline as a big company in embryo rather than as a little company . |
| 27 | The building was always damp , cold and we always suffered from chilblains in winter … ’ |
| 28 | I went round to their place again and we had toast and tea with real cow 's milk , not the Handy Brand condensed milk we always had at home . |
| 29 | No undue force was necessary , and we always rewarded with TLC and a tit-bit . |
| 30 | We always tried in ICI to offer people jobs elsewhere in the company whenever we could . |