Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We walked up the wide stone steps . |
| 32 | We walked up the beaten trackway , slipping and cursing on the icy ground underfoot . |
| 33 | We walked up the wooden passage . |
| 34 | I can remember him saying , as we walked down the second fairway , ‘ Willie , if I can win these people ( the gallery ? over from Jack [ Nicklaus ] so that they want me to win , I 'll win for them . ’ |
| 35 | We draw up the perfect guest list , and then go about extending the invitations — we have n't yet resorted to blackmail but it can only be a matter of time . |
| 36 | We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values . |
| 37 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |
| 38 | We set out the political context of the strike ( second section ) , before analysing the most notorious mass picket of the dispute , the ‘ Battle of Orgreave ’ . |
| 39 | Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade . |
| 40 | We set out the same night for Bug Bug , but failed to make our objective owing to the bad nature of the ground for the vehicles . |
| 41 | In Chapter 15 we set out the basic case for allowing free markets to allocate resources . |
| 42 | As we sweated up the final rise , the stern brow of Profitis Ilias came into view on our left . |
| 43 | On our first day we sweated up the short scree slope to the foot of Middlefell Buttress , where our threesome roped up sound hemp . |
| 44 | As we moored up the late shipping forecast was giving warnings of south-easterly gales for the area , so we had just made it in time . |
| 45 | Next , we stack up the eight sets of five columns ( period/output/ res price/ σ/k); on top of each other to form a data matrix five columns wide and 64 rows long . |
| 46 | We crowed with pleasure as we rushed up the remaining feet to the top and , in the last dregs of daylight , hastened back across the lonely moor to the car , Mullion , and a well earned pint . |
| 47 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 48 | On the way back from the classical ruins of Byblos in an old red and green school bus , co-opted by the bus company for the tourist trade , we drive down the coastal highway into Beirut from the north , towards Martyrs ' Square , so soon to become the front line . |
| 49 | As the last echoes of American drawl died away we scrambled up the final pitch and slithered down the dangerous descent in near darkness . |
| 50 | The struggle for survival is all that he knows : ‘ When we were in charge during the riots , ’ he says ‘ we pulled down the national flag outside the supermarket . |
| 51 | We flew out the next day . |
| 52 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 53 | It was a leisurely day and we padded up the rough , warm rock of a plinth of slabs until an awkward overlap sharpened our claws for the crux pitch above . |
| 54 | As we continue down the stratigraphical column we find examples in other kinds of sediment and in other kinds of quite high energy facies . |
| 55 | ‘ At first , we were apprehensive about the process of signing , then it was the same about deals in Europe and now I think Brian will be helpful when we sort out the American side . |
| 56 | We sort out the free kicks and pay attention to specific tasks . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ You told me ’ , I say as we bounce along the ever-dwindling road , ‘ that you thought of marrying Lady De Marr . |
| 58 | I wondered what it was as we trailed up the dark nave behind Agrippa , Melford , and others of the Queen 's party . |
| 59 | In the echo of the receding explosions and the sulphurous cordite of the rockfall , I said to Steve we might live longer if we abseiled down the rocky left side of the icefield , well away from the fall line . |
| 60 | ‘ But we want all the complications down in black and white before we switch on the green light , ’ said Mr Wright . |