Example sentences of "we [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Next time why do n't you come down to see us , to hurry us along a bit ? |
| 2 | But erm I I think some of them let us down a bit . |
| 3 | A Fatah officer with long , dirty hair led us down a slit trench cut into the soft , red earth . |
| 4 | ‘ Better take us down a piece , where the bank levels out . |
| 5 | It 's tied us down a lot . |
| 6 | The second point is : Most of us down the years have tried to pray , and have found a pattern that suits us . |
| 7 | I believe that Frank is too autocratic , too opinionated — especially about relay selections , which have been the main bone of contention between us down the years . |
| 8 | I refused to go in my cell and they put us down the block . |
| 9 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 10 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 11 | I just cracked up , and they put us down the block . |
| 12 | They took both of us down the block , and we were there for two days — no blankets , no bed , nothing , just a mattress on the floor . |
| 13 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 14 | As Ms Harvest has said to us over a satellite link , ‘ Dr Proctor … he was the Devil all right . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ George , he 's got us over a barrel . |
| 16 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 17 | No doubt there was method in the smugglers ' madness , perhaps the very unsuitability of the area was a ploy to put us off the scent . |
| 18 | Of course , it could be a clever charade orchestrated by Rene to put us off the track . |
| 19 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 20 | So that cheered us up a bit as you can imagine but what really cheered us up was making contact with the Indians . |
| 21 | That bucked us up a bit . |
| 22 | The whole thing sobers us up a bit , but unfortunately not much . |
| 23 | Cos he 's been playing us up a bit you know |
| 24 | What 's more , he did n't come home at midday , when Sal served us up a dinner of fish and chips . |
| 25 | They led us up a series of side streets to a post office near the station . |
| 26 | At the end of January Pop decided to go south to our villages , and sent us up the Irrawaddy to Maymyo . |
| 27 | The idea of the Sudan had followed us up the Nile like a rumour . |
| 28 | The only reference point to give us a sense of our height was the tiny boat on the beach beneath us , with the two fishermen , who had not only declined to follow us up the crater , but also expressed an urgent desire to avoid even setting foot on shore . |
| 29 | It might only drive both of us up the poll ! |
| 30 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |