Example sentences of "we [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when we down to London last week , we went in to see a friend of ours , she works in the sandwich bar |
| 2 | ‘ How are we off for bed-clothes now ? ’ |
| 3 | Now , just as a matter of interest , whilst I remember , how are we off for manuscript paper ? |
| 4 | How are we off for Newquay ? |
| 5 | and then we off to Tesco 's and who did we see in Tesco 's once again |
| 6 | What are we up to date , a hundred and four ? |
| 7 | No sooner are we out of Eden than we find ourselves in a field stained with a brother 's blood ( 4.1–16 ) . |
| 8 | From there a delayed flight took us on to Punta Arenas where we arrived late in the evening . |
| 9 | This leads us on to acceptance sampling . |
| 10 | This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking . |
| 11 | Which brings us on to item nine which is er employment action . |
| 12 | A reddish-brown train was waiting at Helsingborg to take us on to Göteborg , two hundred and forty-three kilometres north , along the west coast . |
| 13 | None of this would be worth remark if the narrative carried us along by virtue of its own strength , but it hardly does . |
| 14 | The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure . |
| 15 | ‘ If by any chance the police pull us in on suspicion they 've got ter 'ave an identification parade , an' if the old watchman recognises any of us we 're done for , unless 'e 's too frightened ter pick us out , an' 'e will be if 'e knows we 're capable o' smackin' 'im around a bit . |
| 16 | ‘ That will take us four hours , getting us in at midnight . |
| 17 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
| 18 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 19 | And this was the the school master had a special class and he used to keep us in after school to have extra lessons . |
| 20 | There remain some inaccessible areas close to the frontier with Peru ; again , we are in luck , because the state oil company CEPE is drilling exploratory wells there , and has offered to fly us in by helicopter . |
| 21 | It 's about a hundred and thirty miles from us down to Penzance . |
| 22 | Well of course from there , they took us down to Southampton . |
| 23 | And sometimes dad used to take us down to Serenity , to see the ships . |
| 24 | Then his wife died on the trek and he and his daughter walked into India and asked people everywhere — Did they know where Padre Appleton was ? until at last he tracked us down to Poona . |
| 25 | It was as thoughtful and generous an invitation as King Hussein sending us down to Petra and Aqaba . |
| 26 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 27 | The bad news , on which I expect you 'll agree with me , is that across all parties , the professional politicians have been letting us down for decades . |
| 28 | ‘ The assassin has marked us down for death , but first he is playing with us like a cat does with a mouse . |
| 29 | They beat us down with duties and taxes and pitilessly steal the fruits of our labours . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's also a boat waiting for us down at Punta Arenas . |