Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode for five hours in the rain . |
| 2 | We agreed on two voyages from the Thames to Nantes and then we would review the situation . |
| 3 | ‘ We agreed on three hours in the morning and three in the afternoon . |
| 4 | We agreed to these conditions , and tried to think of salacious things for Ted to tell Jean . |
| 5 | Together with Germany , we fought for tough criteria . |
| 6 | We fought for seven days and |
| 7 | ‘ Come here while I teach you how we fought in those days . ’ |
| 8 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 9 | We divided into small groups . |
| 10 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 11 | And we made within two minutes to sort out what we were going to , or we decided what charity first , then we decided two would decide on the script while the others cut out relevant pieces that we thought might be useful words . |
| 12 | No , we sold off thirty acres to a developer in nineteen seventy-three and that was a lot easier than-working . |
| 13 | We sold to new clients from Portugal , Italy , Spain , Belgium , France , Switzerland and Germany a very healthy sign , I think . |
| 14 | We sold over 22,000 objects in two or three days . |
| 15 | We led by two shots going into the last round , and when it blew on the last day , I did n't think anybody could beat Trevino . |
| 16 | In our follow-up work we asked about other kinds of self-evaluation and other evaluation schemes . |
| 17 | ‘ We asked for ordinary Russians , but the embassy must have misunderstood and sent us some of the country 's creme de la creme . |
| 18 | His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves . |
| 19 | Then we got on some horses , and rode away through the night . |
| 20 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 21 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 22 | We got about twenty minutes away from the house and the phone starts ringing |
| 23 | We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one . |
| 24 | Well we got through several toasters in a year . |
| 25 | And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project . |
| 26 | Those are the last reported positions we got from various units . |
| 27 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 28 | We operated from fixed points with the vessels motoring or drifting as near to the centre of the basin as possible between Foyers and Urquhart Bay , normally scanning the beam over a sector of 120 o in the direction of travel at a tilt of 30 o to 40 o , to give an effective search to a depth of 160 m . |
| 29 | It makes me shudder now to think of it , how we waded into those strawberries and did n't suffer any ill effects afterwards . |
| 30 | We drew on these aspects in developing our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study . |