Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the village of Pitres , our second night 's stop , we rode through sage- and mint-scented hills , and orchards filled with peaches and almonds , past hedgerows bursting with blackberries , and trees laden with figs and pomegranates . |
| 2 | So we agreed about tea , and invited Father D'Arcy to join us . |
| 3 | We fought like cat and dog the whole time we were together — or at least most of the time , ’ she added , remembering , ‘ he made my life an absolute misery ! ’ |
| 4 | We fought like hell for most of the time . |
| 5 | We gazed with admiration at Tanya . |
| 6 | We gazed in wonderment at the fantastic shape of the small island of Tindholmur as we passed . |
| 7 | We gazed in silence , like the four or five other visitors . |
| 8 | The best help came from all the fellow humans we met on holiday . |
| 9 | ‘ We met at school — I was totally in awe of her ’ |
| 10 | We met at lunch , once , and since then he has been bombarding my house with letters and phone calls . |
| 11 | We met at dinner at the vicarage and at Miss Broome 's house after the bazaar , ’ said Penelope firmly reminding him . |
| 12 | Twenty years later when Dick Ryan had become President of Canadian Pacific Airlines , we met by chance at Sea Island Airport , Vancouver . |
| 13 | And he revealed : ‘ We met by accident just recently and I got to talking to him about Indy . |
| 14 | ‘ No , the man we met in prison was not Taplow but someone else . ’ |
| 15 | Oh , he had the same colour hair as the man we met in prison but he was much more emaciated . ’ |
| 16 | This is often just another case of the rather pathetic " Argument from Personal Incredulity " that we met in Chapter 2 . |
| 17 | Molality is a term which we met in section 4.2 . |
| 18 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 19 | Before learning about our infertility , we had already planned to adopt ‘ hard-to-place ’ children , and so , with little prospect of natural children , we applied for adoption all the sooner . |
| 20 | As we made for home , and reached the tiny harbour of Tala-Tala , the silence between us was almost strained . |
| 21 | I repeat the charge that we made in Committee which the Minister , regrettably , did not answer . |
| 22 | We cruised in company with pilot whales off the Butt of Lewis , ranged alongside the huge basking shark to compare its thirty foot length with our own and , on one occasion , witnessed an unidentified whale breach practically clear out of the sea like some mammoth salmon . |
| 23 | Here hundreds of birds were wheeling and soaring and we realised with excitement that they were frigate birds . |
| 24 | If only we realised in time , we would n't waste our lives on trash. why is the best thing in the world tied to the least lasting ? |
| 25 | Well we read about prayer and we know about its power but you know we often do n't avail ourselves off it and yet it 's plainly written . |
| 26 | There we read in line seven of the desirability of retaining a bilateral contact between our two churches on matters of doctrine a desire express , I 'm glad to note , by our Roman Catholic friends and that 's good . |
| 27 | We sought to measure attitudes in several ways . |
| 28 | So he told me in the diner to which we resorted for coffee and blueberry pie . |
| 29 | What has happened to the statements that we expected on revenue support grant ? |
| 30 | We asked about music , we asked about food , we asked about holidays , we asked family , we asked about , what was Ja , Mandy 's questions to you Jane ? |