Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 We got just the opposite at the 11th , where we dropped a shot and went back to 10 under .
2 When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City .
3 When we got there the chucker-out told us to go in quickly because the film had started .
4 When we got there the cranes had already left but the marsh still resounded with the calls of waders , most of them now looking after young .
5 Since we moved here the asthma has got worse .
6 We mentioned earlier the paradoxes which were that for instance erm we 're looking for a low risk investment or our customers are looking for a low risk investment , they tell us they need well proven technology but that needs to be advanced technology .
7 We mentioned earlier the problem of relaxing phonetic constraints without knowing the lexical context , and whether such relaxation was required .
8 If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like .
9 In the abstract we used only the numbers from the last six weeks of each treatment period to avoid a changeover effect .
10 That report from Kim Barnes , and we invited both the Oxford Bench and the Magistrates Association to discuss the complaints from Thames Valley Police in more detail but they declined our offer .
11 We rose late the next morning .
12 We rose early the next morning awoken by the clanging of the abbey bells .
13 We rose early the next morning .
14 Umpteen four-bedroomed houses later , we were wondering if it really was the right thing to do : every time we found just the right place , the surveyor 's report showed movement of the north wall , or some other equally expensive-to-repair problem .
15 Despite this problem we found only the well known associations between endometriosis and age and parity .
16 It is of note that in human thymus we found only the P3A + variant of the α subunit is expressed , and therefore may have a role in the etiology of MG .
17 We woke early the next morning .
18 Upstairs in the elegant dining room we noticed again the superb position of the hotel , as our table overlooked the marketplace below .
19 We filed abroad the steamer for New Zealand like transported convicts .
20 We came here the Saturday before last and won in the League , now we 're pleased to be taking them back to the Bridge this time .
21 As we noted earlier the surveys of both secondary and primary schools provided information on what was happening in schools , although they were restricted ( in the case of the secondary survey particularly ) to a subject-based analysis of the curriculum .
22 As we noted earlier the developments of this work make this unlikely .
23 We noted earlier the need for investment in support for heads and in management training , while acknowledging the Authority 's recent ( that is , post-PNP ) initiatives in respect of the latter ( Leeds City Council 1991a ) .
24 As we noted earlier the Conservative Government has followed two major policies in an attempt to deal with this penal crisis : firstly , simply to build more prisons ; and secondly , to reduce the numbers receiving custodial sentences .
25 Oh yeah , we raced just the same even though we had to do it early , so that some of them leave , and we started at sometimes half past eleven .
26 But we threw away the lead four times .
27 To his chagrin we threw away the letter about a skiing holiday .
28 But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing .
29 Like , I 'll tell you , see , last Christmas we spent practically the whole night going to family rows .
30 Apparently we had made so much noise when we returned separately the night before that we had wakened everyone and we were being thrown out .
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