Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’ |
| 2 | Nothing more was said as we rode down in the elevator . |
| 3 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 4 | Four fifty million , erm between programme re-orientation and other factors was an apportionment we made back in the er first half of nineteen ninety three and in the light of later information I think we would revise that now erm we are still negotiating with the contractors on the revised contract price and we do not have definitive costs yet but in fact the cost increase as a result of the rescheduling of the programme directly should be quite modest . |
| 5 | We 've , into the village , we lived out in the countryside till I was eight , and we come down into the I should say town should n't I , we come down into the town when I was eight and I was there till I was twenty two , and I came up here , when I got married . |
| 6 | The next morning we got up in the dark as before , but the water was frozen , so we could not wash . |
| 7 | we were lucky cos it did n't start to rain did it till we got back in the coach ? so that was well planned . |
| 8 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't suppose we sit out in the sun above twice a year . |
| 10 | We moved off in the direction of the crossroads , the scene of yesterday 's action . |
| 11 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 12 | just came up over night till we found out in the morning well you can see it ca n't you Oh you did you see it ? the swelling on your dad 's foot . |
| 13 | We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead . |
| 14 | To the accompaniment of shouts and screams from the Corporals , we lined up in the corridor and were counted and recounted by them . |
| 15 | The following morning , as we wandered along in the warm sunshine , a brilliant , azure sky enhancing the already remarkable scenery , Harish related a little more history . |
| 16 | We woke up in the middle of the night and , for a few minutes , we knew that love is everything . |
| 17 | Eventually we came out in the comparative brightness of the open space behind the house . |
| 18 | I remember how cold it was when we came down in the winter . |
| 19 | And we came down in the morning as safe as we would have been anywhere . |
| 20 | Charity bets twenty five pounds and we came down in the car from Newmarket she had the she had the post out the light everything , now what 's what 's it going on ? |
| 21 | So we came back in the dark , there were fifteen of us in th this jeep bouncing up and down so that was quite fun too . |
| 22 | It was Hallowe'en , but the rows of surburban semis near the theatre as we drove back in the coach looked profoundly unmagical . |
| 23 | She was the type of young woman who loves danger ; and she insisted that we lie down in the entrance way to a park . |
| 24 | What we loose out in the winter we gain extra in the summer in the summer time . |
| 25 | The men and women we read about in the Bible have aspirations and failings with which we easily identify , and even the heroes of Scripture are displayed in the cold light of truth . |
| 26 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 27 | Have we cleaned up in the computer room ? |
| 28 | ‘ Will we meet up in the spring , Lucie ? ’ said Ydrys . |
| 29 | If ever we wake up in the morning and feel that this is just ‘ another day to get through ’ , then our life is painfully stuck — and it is fear and limiting beliefs which are keeping us stuck . |
| 30 | Once again we set out in the pre-dawn walk through the forest , the amble across the alpine pastures , and the short struggle up the screes to the foot of the wall . |