Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium .
2 he certainly found me and from there we just went from strength to strength and erm were still have together .
3 ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch .
4 We just seemed to time it wrong with the weather .
5 At first we just stared in disbelief .
6 Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed .
7 We soon went to bed .
8 We always thought of Headline as a big company in embryo rather than as a little company .
9 I went round to their place again and we had toast and tea with real cow 's milk , not the Handy Brand condensed milk we always had at home .
10 The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love .
11 However , we still got to school by 9.00am .
12 And then we she got married we still kept in touch with one another and I got married and we did n't live far from one another .
13 He greeted me politely and we quickly got into conversation .
14 As we also noticed in chapter 3 , we can not predict the full membership of the set on phonological grounds .
15 and we also looked at acid and carbonate .
16 As we also said in chapter 3 , there are instances when efficiency measures are either not practicable or not possible .
17 We also read of crowd conversions through the preaching of the Christians in Jerusalem after pentecost ( Acts 2:37–41 ; 4:4 ) .
18 Very often I dined on a banana split , which was enormous : it consisted of a whole banana , three scoops of ice cream , syrup and whipped cream and only cost 25 cents ; we also lived on delicatessen sandwiches and salads and were so excited with the automats where we put our money in and out popped coffee .
19 We also drew on survey evidence to show that temporary work provided an important source of new jobs for unemployed people , of whom perhaps a quarter took such work .
20 We often began with antipasto : a selection of home-cured salumi .
21 We often played at home . ’
22 We often got into trouble with foreign seamen that came there and they started making up to the Chinamen 's wives .
23 We often cried with pain .
24 If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget .
25 They sat down to a celebration champagne lunch with Dai Davies , the farm manager , and set about opening the heaps of telegrams and congratulatory letters ‘ so that we really felt on top of the world ’ .
26 We really felt at home here from the first time we came .
27 We simply went to work like normal citizens during martial law and now it seems that 's a crime , ’ he went on , gesturing at the 20 heads of party factory cells who were gathered to discuss the future of communism in Poland .
28 We then went to assembly which lasted anything from fifteen to twenty five minutes , we would then go into our classrooms and do whatever we were told .
29 We then went by train into the country , and took a taxi to Dr Roylott 's house .
30 This decline was comparable with what we previously found in colon carcinomas .
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