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Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	We dwelled in the fair , listened to the conflicting
2	I ca n't remember it all , but I think we rode along the old railway line . ’
3	And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality .
4	Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises .
5	The thing is , we met through the Lonely Hearts ads and I 'm afraid my friends will laugh at me when they find out .
6	We met in the early morning .
7	But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit .
8	We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out .
9	Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park .
10	We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin .
11	We rippled on the yellow sheet , the counterpane — and us — long gone .
12	The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again .
13	We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view .
14	The main assessments we made about the structural situation of the economy and the direction of change needed for both the economy and society have been verified .
15	We squelched through the oozy wet mud of the long sea wall at Titchwell Marsh .
16	‘ We sold to the old Soviet Union but dealt only with the central import agency .
17	I am afraid that the forecasts we produced under the old regime are now too optimistic .
18	If the hon. Member for Livingston ever got into power , no doubt we would return to the longer waits that we experienced under the Labour Government .
19	From the gate we passed into the covered bazaar , and after running a gauntlet of salesmen ( all offering the same smudged postcards printed on blotting paper ) emerged into the open in front of the Naqqar Khana , the House of the Drums .
20	Then the people moved aside and we passed through the smiling , cheering crowd , some of whom I noticed had tears in their eyes .
21	Chris Buckley and Hans Koeleman were still there at halfway , as we passed before the stony gaze of Nelson 's statue .
22	We whipped over the northernmost house , across the beach , and thus out to sea again .
23	" We lived on the top floor of number eighty-two , Tyrone Street , Lower . "
24	Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon .
25	Er hundred and forty pound for the coach to Yorkshire which we got on the other side , a hundred and six pound back so the club er sponsored that , a hundred and thirty four pound , and thirty four pound .
26	‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League .
27	That to me was one of the most rewarding moments over and above when we got into the big game against New Zealand .
28	At the traffic lights , we got into the thick of it .
29	‘ Every time we got to the dying fall of Come Back to Sorrento she wound the damn thing up again .
30	As we got to the narrow road that runs past the spot where Mr Marr used to watch the night sky , he turned and held up his hands towards the stars .