Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode into the Place St Michel and sat in a café drinking hot chocolate . |
| 2 | As usual , we met at the Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 3 | When we met at the Bacon show and I smiled at him he smiled back at once , then remembered and tried to scowl , but could n't and we both burst out laughing . |
| 4 | We met at the Hilton . |
| 5 | As the somewhat recalcitrant and irascible member of the famous ‘ What 's My Line ’ panel broadcast on BBC television for years , Gilbert could be and was difficult , but when we met at the Coq d'Or Restaurant on Stratton Street , just off Piccadilly , he was the soul of charm . |
| 6 | We lost touch for a couple of years and then we met at the Coventry Specimen Group Stag Night and found that each of us had conceded to an extent and were now using almost identical rods . |
| 7 | ‘ We met near the Albert Memorial one afternoon in July . |
| 8 | Before she reached the precincts of Iona she made the round of the Sound of Mull , called at Tobermory , where she was unnecessarily detained by some shippers not having a lot of sheep waiting ; she sailed up Loch Sunart , got on board part of a flock of sheep at Salen Pier , landed them at Croag in Mull ; and now we made for the Isle of Coll , — the ‘ Sandy Coll ’ Sir Walter speaks of . |
| 9 | As we passed over the Thames we paused to look at a steamer unloading great slabs of white and brown marble . |
| 10 | Just 1,500km ( 932 miles ) from Moscow we passed over the Ural mountains which divide Europe from Asia . |
| 11 | Somewhat incongruously , an accordion started playing ‘ The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen ’ as we passed under the Erskine Bridge , thin and elegant as the still herons by the side of the now slowly widening river . |
| 12 | We passed along the Falls Road , a Catholic area I remembered well from boyhood and turned into a warren of mean side streets , finally stopping outside a church . |
| 13 | I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot , |
| 14 | We lived in the San Ramon district on the outskirts of the city . |
| 15 | I was n't supposed to be a novelty that people come to look at , like we became in the Beatles . |
| 16 | We got to the Volvo — ‘ Your things ? |
| 17 | This initiative , in the event , paid off handsomely , both in terms of profit and in terms of giving us an illusion of independence when one of our consortia , which we shared with the Burmah Oil company , discovered oil in what is now the Ninian field . |
| 18 | After the war he also confessed to me that his eyesight was very bad and he would not have passed any normal eye test that we used in the RAF , hut he did have contact lenses . |
| 19 | We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly . |
| 20 | A light breeze from the north cleared the air and the sun blazed out over distant mountains as we headed between the Crowlin Isles and shaped up towards the Kyle of Localsh . |
| 21 | There were handshakes all round and the usual ‘ well playeds ’ , and we headed for the PGA hut where the scores are checked and handed in . |
| 22 | The world is still dangerous and unstable , as we found in the Falklands and the Gulf . |
| 23 | Formula can , on the one hand , itself take on a positive significance , and on the other , it can provide a traditionally understood basis for the performance of individual variants ( which is what we found in the Billie Holiday recording ) . |
| 24 | We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her . |
| 25 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 26 | The high level of activity at Enron gas fired power station contract — which we serviced from the Middlesbrough Depot — and the increasing tempo of work in the Gulf where we deployed a significant amount of our special plant , tower cranes and hoists to Dubai , and heavy crawler cranes to the Mina Qaboos harbour job in Muscat . |
| 27 | Will my right hon. Friend assure the House that at least one of the lessons that we learnt in the Gulf war will be put into effect so that , should a similar international crisis occur again , more than one in five of those support vessels will fly the red ensign , as was the case in the Gulf war ? |
| 28 | We sailed across the Aegean to Izmir , which till recently had been called Smyrna ; and the captain told me how , a few years earlier , as he entered the port , his ship had nosed her way through the floating corpses of Greeks massacred by the Turks . |
| 29 | We sailed across the Atlantic , round the coast of Africa and into the Indian Ocean . |
| 30 | Then we sailed through the Dardanelles , past beaches and rocky scrub-covered hills , once the scene of so much unavailing gallantry and sacrifice . |