Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We asked for an extra day , and that was fine . |
| 2 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
| 3 | The nearest we got to an official pronouncement on the recent escalation of terrorism was the inane comment of Security Minister Sir John Wheeler that the IRA was defeated . |
| 4 | There was a lavatory in the garden — no grass — which we shared with an Irish family who lived on the floor above us . |
| 5 | Several times the steering wheel took on a wild life of its own as we crashed into an unnoticed pot-hole , and the windscreen wipers stuttered against the rain of dust and small stones that hurtled against the car in handfuls : it was if we were under fire . |
| 6 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 7 | We stopped by an empty building and disentangled ourselves from each other . |
| 8 | In the evening we ate at an Indian restaurant opposite the hotel . |
| 9 | ‘ In a cliff on the edge of the city , about 2,500ft up from the valley floor , we came on an old tomb , full of bones and ceramic pieces . |
| 10 | Eventually we came upon an empty railway shed with a paved road and a line of street lamps along one side . |
| 11 | We arrived at an other dam around noon ; water was rushing over the huge rocks and it was too risky to try to paddle across so the canoes were lined across . |
| 12 | We climbed for an hour-and-a-half and I can tell you that going up a mountain on skins is not as easy as it looks . |
| 13 | Remembering the close encounter near Maralal , we arranged for an armed park ranger to accompany us , so that we would also be protected in case of emergency . |
| 14 | As we walked towards an ancient Volkswagen she took my arm and rested too heavily upon it and asked if I 'd brought her anything from London . |
| 15 | The door was unlocked , we climbed a flight of cold , damp , mildewed steps , another door opened and we stepped into an oval-shaped chamber . |
| 16 | We worked at an unheard-of pace . |
| 17 | Last week we talked with an old friend , an African who is in charge of the welfare services for three towns . |
| 18 | However for the city centre we decided upon an imaginative location — Granada Television Studios . |
| 19 | We sent in an urgent request three |
| 20 | What we saw as an interesting and unusual opportunity , they saw as a second-best . |
| 21 | This is not very far from the belief that pleasure and happiness amount to the same thing — a belief with deep flaws , as we saw in an earlier chapter . |
| 22 | We saw in an earlier chapter how innovatory schools such as Madeley Court and Codsall Comprehensive regarded " in-service training " as an important factor in their planning , and how such training was provided , not only from courses outside the school , but also from within , by judicious deployment of available personnel . |
| 23 | ‘ We went for an open systems solution because we wanted to build in flexibility for the future , ’ says ACCOUNTANCY 's Malcolm Cole . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ Originally we went for an American-style back-end load or exit charge which was tapered to reduce by a percentage point for each year an investment was held . |
| 25 | The particular Friday night when the Yeti sealed my fate , we went to an end-of-run party for the school play , Doctor Faustus it was that year . |
| 26 | Erm , we went through an enormous stressful time trying to make the decision , but in the end decided if if this is the only way then we 'll we 'll we 'll try it 's either that or be childless and I ca n't |
| 27 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 28 | Habituation and sensitization are not the only kinds of non-associative learning : imprinting , which we discussed in an earlier section , is another kind ; and the development of bird song , which we shall discuss later , yet another . |
| 29 | But in the last quarter of last year we ran into an economic cliff , ’ says Alastair Balfour , of Scotland 's leading business publication , Scottish Business Insider . |
| 30 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |