Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A few years ago I and my two sons made an amazing discovery — a discovery we shared with a few of our colleagues here . |
| 32 | We managed only one practice session , on a school playing field in St Thomas which we shared with a tense local football match . |
| 33 | Stepping through the door we entered into a musty Mary Celeste type atmosphere . |
| 34 | If at some stage we entered into a single currency , we should have to deal with a different matter . |
| 35 | Now we did go through dramatic exercises in the nineteen sixties , erm where we entered into a three year agreement er on wages settlement at national level . |
| 36 | In May 1979 , partly out of desperation , we entered upon a great experiment . |
| 37 | ‘ In Misano , when we crashed on a fast right-hander and Steve cracked a shoulder , I was thrown right over the top . |
| 38 | I then asked rather than erm wait for er Dr to come back , er we changed onto a different product which did n't involve conductivity but before doing that , I asked for ten pallets of to be run off with the nutrient mix reduced from two K Gs per metre to one point five K Gs per metre . |
| 39 | On the fourteenth day we moved to a different section of the training building . |
| 40 | So in 1959 we moved to a large , ark-like Victorian farmhouse in Hampshire which I share today with our vast collection of children 's toys . |
| 41 | Cos we moved to ninety five , was n't built when we moved into a hundred and eleven |
| 42 | a hundred and eleven was a three bedroom house , then we moved into a four bedroom house did n't we |
| 43 | We moved into a two bedroom house , but it 's only up the road at you know , you 're really not very far away are you ? |
| 44 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 45 | ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed . |
| 46 | He would insist on checking our observations before we sent them to Group on the teleprinter , and this we regarded as a deadly insult , most of us having been doing them unchecked for over three years . |
| 47 | We headed onto a small lane which took us straight towards Marloes ' magnificent sands . |
| 48 | In one of the tombs we peered through a dark gap and saw a broken mummy lying exposed at the bottom of a shaft . |
| 49 | This we traced to a cylindrical metal box ( about 2′ long and about 8″ in diameter ) located under the nearside front wheelarch . |
| 50 | Six hours into the journey , and several thousand feet higher , we stopped at a small village to quench our thirst and refuel the jeep from rusty milk-cans . |
| 51 | On arrival at a solitary farm we stopped at a simple stone monument which marked the nearby crash-sites for F/L Mackid 's Lancaster , : 7572 ‘ L ’ and F/L Poole 's Halifax , W1020 ‘ K ’ . |
| 52 | I forgot to say that on the way to the hot springs we stopped at a neolithic site where they have excavated and reconstructed the life of the people living there 6,000 years ago . |
| 53 | In the hills above the ruins of Capernaum near the Mount of Beatitudes we stopped at a natural grassy amphitheatre which could easily seat 10,000 . |
| 54 | After battling winds and rain across the lake we stopped for a nutritious lunch and continued to battle our way to our second night 's camp . |
| 55 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 56 | We stopped before a great , gold-embossed door and the chamberlain turned . |
| 57 | We stopped in a dull village on a plateau . |
| 58 | One day last week we stopped in a deserted village and the guerrillas led me to where lunch was being prepared . |
| 59 | We experimented with a new Editor who wrote and commissioned interesting and often controversial articles , but this approach was competitive with the British Sunday press and I discovered that " controversial " can be distasteful . |
| 60 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |