Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even then we divided up the list and had at least an aisle between us . |
| 2 | This quotes order/office : Chris Lloyd , to whom we made out the cheque accompanying our order . |
| 3 | When we arrived we sought out the ‘ dug out ’ . |
| 4 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 5 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 6 | As we steamed down the Sound of Mull one fine afternoon , my No. 1 , Dave Scadding , who was a keen fisherman , noticed a flock of gulls screaming on the water ahead . |
| 7 | We got up the top there . |
| 8 | We got out the ‘ spy in the sky ’ . |
| 9 | We got out the 300mm-long lens . |
| 10 | Yeah , I 'd say , remember when we got out the car I said , I can hear that , dee da , dee da 's ! |
| 11 | Well Les says er when we got out the car and you went he says bloody hell that uses some juice do n't it ? |
| 12 | Carefully we laid out the tow lines and attached our snow hooks , Tony to one roadside fence post , me to another , Nathan to the bumper of Odd-Knut 's car . |
| 13 | We checked out the site a week beforehand . |
| 14 | I ran off round to Marie 's and we shared out the Cadbury 's bar and then we went and played ball against Julie 's house . |
| 15 | Which means — since I did n't know about all that when we drew up the contract — there will be a surcharge . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We drew out the Livesey file , this afternoon , ’ Bragg said in a neutral voice . |
| 17 | As we glissaded down the final snows to the hut , the summit of Mt Blanc was burnished by the setting sun and the Flammes de Pierre were flickering , true to their name . |
| 18 | We headed up the Ring Road towards Old Delhi , and as we drove the avenues began to fill with bicycle rickshaws , all heading in the same direction . |
| 19 | As time was flying by , we headed down the coast , stopping at numerous beaches , finally reaching Disneyland and Universal Studios . |
| 20 | Later on we found out the perimeter fence had been burnt down and the festival is banned here next year . |
| 21 | but we found out the measurements for it to go |
| 22 | As we thundered down the runway , the ambassador asked : ‘ Do you think they weighed the khat properly ? ’ 'Almost certainly not , ’ replied the civil servant . |
| 23 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
| 24 | Oh well we d did n't know if we were supposed to be congregating with rest of the people , or what so we just wandered we wandered down the hall |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , we have n't time to give it more than a catlick , ’ she came to realize as we staggered up the grand flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 26 | We tried out The Roundhouse for a while , even interrupting a World Service broadcast which was going out live from somewhere else in the building while we were bashing through a rehearsal — probably our first public airing . |
| 27 | We tried out the firm that started it all , Butlin 's . |
| 28 | And I went er in the boat coming back er from Canada was far worse as the one going acro but we went to Boston and we stayed out in the harbour there and then we sailed down the coast into New York , which was a great sight . |
| 29 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 30 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |