Example sentences of "we [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |
| 2 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 3 | WE 'RE HAVING BIG TROUBLE JUSTIFYING OUR LARGE SALARIES SINCE WE STOPPED SPYING ON THE RUSSIANS ! |
| 4 | For three years now we had moved stealthily through the darkness , sometimes absurdly confident , sometimes terrified , but always wondering just what sort of man it was that we heard creeping along the wall towards us and what sort of weapon he had in his hand . |
| 5 | We enjoyed looking after the children very much . |
| 6 | We began working with the campesino cooperative , Union Nacional de Comunidades del Frente para la Liberacion ( UNACOFL ) and the Health Brigade " Manuel Federico Castillo " . |
| 7 | We started necking on the sofa , and she undressed , and suggested the bedroom . |
| 8 | We started looking for the hole in the long summer holidays . |
| 9 | When , what was the date we started recording on the tape ? |
| 10 | We started climbing towards the mess when , at 9.35 , the alarm went again . |
| 11 | The next day we returned to the Rovacchia with more food for the boys , but as we started walking towards the embankment we heard a woman shouting at us : ‘ Where is Anna ? |
| 12 | Show what we loved dissolving in the skies . ’ |
| 13 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 14 | At 7 o'clock in the morning there was no certainty of getting one quickly and we kept rushing to the window until someone shouted ‘ Here it comes ’ … |
| 15 | and , all , all we kept saying on the train coming down Bob and I oh I hope we can slide down the bannisters |
| 16 | Especially if we kept going on the course we 'd established . |
| 17 | The Ruff-stuff 's tracks swept off to the right so we kept walking to the left . |
| 18 | You remember in France , the er they made you where we kept walking round the table and er she sa , anyway said er fish soup ? |
| 19 | He said that the men we saw emerging from the rue de la Huchette into the place St Michel were probably superannuated rag-pickers . |
| 20 | We sang marching across the muddy fields in front of the farmhouse , we sang in the cookhouse tent before we were allowed to eat , we sang at parade before we went off to exercise , and at any point that the staff thought we had nothing to do , it was out with the songbooks . |
| 21 | We went bowling after the shopping on Saturday . |
| 22 | We went fishing in the Wilts. and Berks . |
| 23 | We went fishing by the way |
| 24 | We went looking for the river . |
| 25 | ‘ Remember that time we went dancing at the Rialto ballroom , ’ she would say . |
| 26 | Have we yet reached the point at which we would be awarded damages against the Meteorological Office because we went camping on the day of an unforecast hurricane ? |
| 27 | After we finished that poem , late in the evening of 2 November , we went walking through the streets of Salamanca for most of the night , for the poem had persuaded us that something remarkable was really happening to us , that some kind of poetic grace had been bestowed upon us . |
| 28 | Every week we went shopping to the town , taking a bus from the bottom of the hill : it did not seem quite safe to leave Aunt Louise and the fire together alone . |
| 29 | It was he who taught some of us how to use a .38 calibre revolver when we went hiking on the rolling prairies for shooting competitions , with gophers or tin cans as our main targets . |
| 30 | In my day we left cooking to the women unless , of course , it was a fancy French chef . |