Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] " 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 | What are the cargoes we pick up at short notice and deliver to out-of-the-way ports in Africa ? |
| 3 | The routine at Aubagne was the same every day ; we got up at 4.30 am , washed , shaved and paraded outside before a breakfast of coffee and bread in the main cookhouse ; then we cleaned the barrack rooms for an hour and paraded again at 7.30 am for the allocation of the day 's duties . |
| 4 | We got up at 5.30 am and it was grim . |
| 5 | We got up at eight and I |
| 6 | We got up at 6 a.m. to start making bacon and tomato butties for the Co-op Bakery and homeward-bound shift workers . |
| 7 | we got back at five and oh dear me , there they were . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 10 | We woke up at three o'clock in the morning and Ian was the other way round |
| 11 | Oh goodness yes , wh we if we dredged up , we 'd have a say a piece of on deck , we used to land them on deck until we got room , so we came up at Upper Dock . |
| 12 | Anyway , I just thought I 'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point ; I do enjoy trying to get to know some of my cousins , especially when they 're not hundreds of miles away . |
| 13 | Nowadays , when we look back at old photographs and films of the 1950s rock and roll craze , and the Teddy Boys , it is easy to wonder what all the fuss was about . |
| 14 | That 's what they say well we have this silly game that we play on the number line , going up and down the thing and when you do three start from three , count seven in the opposite direction we finish up at this number called minus four . |
| 15 | ‘ As you know , Mr Caretaker , we lock up at seven thirty in summer and , ’ said Williams insultingly , ‘ at five thirty in winter . |
| 16 | What when we , when we walked out at twenty past eleven ? |
| 17 | We set off at ten , collected Coconut and bowled along to the woods . |
| 18 | We set off at seven in the morning after a particularly frantic bout of making-up : all three hijras cleaned their teeth with neem twigs , smudged on great quantities of lipstick and dusted their faces with blusher . |
| 19 | We get up at 7 a.m. , and have breakfast at 7.30 ( now it 's getting to be more like 7.45 ! ) before we set out by car for the Institute where we start teaching at 8.30 . |
| 20 | We work , we we work shift work so I I mean you know we get up at half past four in the morning and and if you 've got people trundling about above your heads all hours of the night it 's er |
| 21 | but you know we , we might feel cold when we get in at first , oh we have n't been in long before it 's warm is n't it ? |
| 22 | So , er , those are the pro , those are a lot of the problems that we are , we are facing now , will we really er will we end up at twenty four thousand down at the end of the year ? |
| 23 | Then there 's a steep approach when we nose down at 30 degrees . |
| 24 | We went in at 35 , sir ! |
| 25 | I had strong words about our defending when we went in at half time . |
| 26 | er , I know that erm , they were bad when we went down at half term |
| 27 | We went out at 2 PM . |
| 28 | If we carry on at that rate , and growth is actually accelerating , we will be the largest private motor insurer in two years . |
| 29 | You know , but that is what Dave said , there highlight is every , like can we come over at six o'clock tomorrow . |
| 30 | Can we come back at two and go straight into matter C , major exceptions . |