Example sentences of "we [vb past] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We gazed at glaciers and icefalls , at clouds spiralling from far-off valleys , at soft blue shadows and crests of ice and dark , barren faces of rock . |
| 2 | We berthed at Shields . |
| 3 | We woke at times and as the night got colder |
| 4 | We played at Forfeits , Hunt-the-Fish , |
| 5 | That street was wide , long ( leading up to the famous suspension foot-bridge ) and ideal for the playing of games such as football and rounders , and the chasing of girls into the mouths of tenements ( called ‘ closes ’ ) wherein we played at Mammies and Daddies . |
| 6 | We landed at Andahaylas 10,000 feet above sea level and from there we took the mountain track in a Land Rover to Fr. |
| 7 | ‘ I think we must agree that Keble was not at his most inspired when he wrote the hymn which we sang at Candlemas not so long ago — beginning , if I remember rightly , |
| 8 | In issue 39 we looked at directories and subdirectories . |
| 9 | So we let them go on in their grubby little greedy ways while we looked at papers and account books and took an inventory of the wine-cellar and just watched how the system operated . ’ |
| 10 | In Chapter 2 we looked at sources of information and at how to gather material . |
| 11 | In the first chapter we looked at notions of timely and untimely grief and we saw that although the reaction to loss is the same whether or not we are expecting someone to die , the way it will be expressed does very much depend on whether it is something we might expect . |
| 12 | Stephen Tapper , director of development services , said : ‘ We looked at problems with access to Snipe Lane , drainage and landscape as well as various other issues . |
| 13 | We looked at things like how to abseil off a cliff hundreds of feet high , while protecting the person you are guiding at all times . |
| 14 | We looked at reasons for installing a network , fitting and configuring the network interface card ( NIC ) , managing precious memory , and testing the installation . |
| 15 | On Sydney suburban grounds we looked at teams clash , Wests and Souths , St George and Balmain , Norths and Detective Sergeant Bumper Farrell 's Newtown Bluebags , and decided that this or that lock or halfback would cut a swathe on heavy northern grounds in England . |
| 16 | As I recall it , that we did n't have a week during August where everybody was here , indeed we looked at diaries . |
| 17 | We looked at variations in perceptions across the electorate to see whether television , the press , or both had any influence . |
| 18 | In Chapter 3 , we looked at explanations for the differences in male and female criminality . |
| 19 | We looked at labels and washing powders with more interest and at new washing machines with economy programmes — another exam question . |
| 20 | Readers tend to associate gloss with high cost and , in solving this criticism , we looked at ways of reducing the overall magazine budget . |
| 21 | Looking back it is difficult to justify what we did at times . |
| 22 | A multilingual Corporal explained to us as we sat at desks that the tests were aimed at determining our ‘ niveaux générales ’ or basic IQs . |
| 23 | Those of us lucky enough to be in the choir were sitting on benches in the corridor beside the hall , an open corridor where we sat at right-angles to the rest of the school . |