Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 2 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 3 | The sequence in hand was apparently quite simple : we met up with another yacht and sailed in company , then came across a fishing boat to whose skipper I shouted , ‘ Have you any fish to spare ? ’ |
| 4 | Hardly when we steamed up like this . |
| 5 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
| 6 | Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ? |
| 7 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 8 | As we sit to yet another cup of greasy coffee in a steamed-up café I suggest it 's time we got out of all this . |
| 9 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 10 | ‘ It 's time we got back to those glory nights . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We squared up to each other like a scene from high noon ’ |
| 12 | I went after him to ask him what his problem was — and we squared up to each other like something out of High Noon . |
| 13 | We bounced round on that pallet bed , so much laughing and shouting that the landlord came up . |
| 14 | My Enniskillen reverie came to an end as we moved out of that city at last , and continued southward beside the great lough . |
| 15 | It was a very happy meeting , as we caught up on all that had happened since those distant Bideford days . |
| 16 | we find , we found out about that place and it was , it was a third cheaper you know |
| 17 | We found out about this when an impromptu ‘ appel ’ was called at 7.00 pm . |
| 18 | The march was longer than I expected and we staggered in at half past six this morning , having done twenty-seven miles in just over nine hours , which is n't bad . |
| 19 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 20 | That 's the first time and then we and then we were still around the back and we darted up over these banks |
| 21 | We sailed on for another two weeks . |
| 22 | As we paddled on down this part of the river I became aware of a huge commotion behind me . |
| 23 | Some people were surprised , and I remember we played up to this a bit . |
| 24 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 25 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 26 | With the help of my husband who is an importer of clocks , we came up with this idea . |
| 27 | that they thought they could develop and hav hold events on , and er , he said , like we , we came up with some good ideas , put forward some ideas , really good ideas , for things to do on this land , and he said , the trouble is that all these councillors back on to these pieces of land , and he said , er , they do n't want people coming along and enjoying themselves on it , because they want to go and walk their labradors on it . |
| 28 | In fact , Ray did a little work on it before we came over on this trip . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ How we came out of that alive is beyond me . |
| 30 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |