Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lived in a gentler age . |
| 2 | We returned on a quicker inland route back to the car park in the early evening , tired but totally satisfied after our exhilarating coastal ramble . |
| 3 | We worked for a wider Europe , international peace , development and disarmament . |
| 4 | We motored on a further thirty miles and when the road ended were lucky to get on a goods train with our precious stock of food . |
| 5 | They proposed instead a new list of candidates which included themselves ‘ and certain other painters whom we knew to a greater or lesser extent … who seemed to us capable of representing if not a particular tendency at least a certain standard ’ . |
| 6 | Both writers make light of this crossing from Fort Augustus to the middle of Glenmoriston , even though it must have proven their most arduous stage so far — eleven miles of high , hard going , ‘ cut in traverses ’ as Johnson says , ‘ so that as we went upon a higher stage , we saw the baggage following us below in a contrary direction . ’ |