Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We dwelled in the fair , listened to the conflicting |
| 2 | We rode to the fourth floor , the doors slid open , we regarded each other in silence from our chosen corners , the doors slid to , and by the time we returned to the ground floor divorce was forgotten and the marriage reconsummated . |
| 3 | I ca n't remember it all , but I think we rode along the old railway line . ’ |
| 4 | As we skimmed along the last hundred metres , I said to the lieutenant , ‘ Tuan , have you something the boy can put over his shirt ? |
| 5 | We agreed on a short-term goal of maintenance of nutritional intake and Mrs Allen said she would make sure she ate one ‘ proper ’ meal each day . |
| 6 | I see from my files that we agreed to a slight change to the Agreement for the above tape , and a revised page 2 of the document was sent to you on 20 April . |
| 7 | We agreed to a limited extension on the basis that we would have to show the court that we had provided reasonable opportunity for the Department to consider the matter . |
| 8 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 9 | Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises . |
| 10 | The thing is , we met through the Lonely Hearts ads and I 'm afraid my friends will laugh at me when they find out . |
| 11 | ‘ We met on a professional basis , ’ said Gregson , his smile broadening . |
| 12 | We met on a wild , windy day near the Ferry in a port on the South Coast . |
| 13 | My photographic equipment was a bit limited by the fact that as a leader I was required to carry a heavy hunting rifle all the time we were ashore , just in case we met with a polar bear in a nasty mood . |
| 14 | As Dr Reading told BBC WILDLIFE : ‘ We met at the first World Congress of Herpetology at Canterbury in 1989 , and subsequently arranged to co-ordinate the two projects . ’ |
| 15 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 16 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 17 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 18 | We met in the early morning . |
| 19 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 20 | We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out . |
| 21 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 22 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 23 | We rippled on the yellow sheet , the counterpane — and us — long gone . |
| 24 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 25 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |
| 26 | The main assessments we made about the structural situation of the economy and the direction of change needed for both the economy and society have been verified . |
| 27 | The errors we made in the 1960s and 1970s can , and are , being corrected . |
| 28 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
| 29 | Well , we 've got a couple that we made in the fifties . |
| 30 | We cruised to a big lead without getting out of bottom gear and continuity was difficult to obtain after half-time . ’ |