Example sentences of "we [vb past] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We met on a professional basis , ’ said Gregson , his smile broadening . |
| 3 | We met on a wild , windy day near the Ferry in a port on the South Coast . |
| 4 | We rippled on the yellow sheet , the counterpane — and us — long gone . |
| 5 | We lived on a small farm which had been partly burnt down , some 1½ km from the main military camp . |
| 6 | ‘ If we lived on a good one , how would things be different ? ’ |
| 7 | If we lived on a very , very heavy planet … ’ |
| 8 | " We lived on the top floor of number eighty-two , Tyrone Street , Lower . " |
| 9 | Er hundred and forty pound for the coach to Yorkshire which we got on the other side , a hundred and six pound back so the club er sponsored that , a hundred and thirty four pound , and thirty four pound . |
| 10 | We checked on the five french windows that opened on to the playground , noted the survival of the wash-house and , on walking to the side of the school and round the back , found the original planks that constituted the vieille planche intact . |
| 11 | ‘ In Misano , when we crashed on a fast right-hander and Steve cracked a shoulder , I was thrown right over the top . |
| 12 | Two years ago we reported on the seismic survey work being carried out in the Solent to determine if oil drilling there would be profitable . |
| 13 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 14 | We concentrated on the three largest groups of workers in the oil industry ( ‘ oil workers ’ ) in northern Scotland in the late 1970s : construction workers of the oil terminal at Sullom Voe ( Shetland ) ; construction workers of the Flotta oil terminal ( Orkney ) ; and offshore workers on rigs and platforms . |
| 15 | ‘ But we do have the buckle we found on the icy moat , and I know who it belongs to . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing belonging to your friend Willard matches up with the fibres we found on the dead girl . ’ |
| 17 | Before reaching the town of Rock the path runs through the only sand dunes that we encountered on the whole walk . |
| 18 | Richard said : ‘ The fierce weather we encountered on the third leg has tested us to our very limits . |
| 19 | We played on a different part |
| 20 | We parked on the opposite side of the street from the Regal Arms . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention . |
| 24 | We turned on a pre-arranged course and climbed at a predetermined rate of feed per minute at a certain airspeed . |
| 25 | Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days . |
| 26 | So they actually bench marked the maintenance phase of the project and found this approach to be three hundred percent more productive than the approach we showed on the previous slide . |
| 27 | Yes , Chair , it 's er , remember at the , the last meeting we touched on the first part of the report , the worry about the issue of closing shops , and rural post offices and garages , and there 's considerable interest from all members er , as to what could be done . |
| 28 | We cruise mainly in the Mediterranean these days , where yachting is quite different from that we observed on a recent visit to the Solent , write Bill and Laurel Cooper . |
| 29 | One afternoon in late October we heard on a local radio station that someone , claiming to speak for Islamic Jihad , had phoned to announce that two Americans would be executed . |
| 30 | So we embarked on a different commercial strategy , trying to implement that that lesson . |