Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’
2 We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before .
3 We rode off to the field which was bursting with beautiful yellow melons , my favourite sort .
4 We rode along like three troubadours from some romantic tale .
5 Together we rode back to Thornfield .
6 Nothing more was said as we rode down in the elevator .
7 Oh we change over like this .
8 In the dark hours before dawn we crept up on our objectives and laid charges .
9 We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door .
10 We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin .
11 ‘ When you look at our results , the deflected goals we have had against CSKA and Brugge , and the way we fought back after being two goals down to Marseille , nothing holds any fears for us . ’
12 Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time .
13 From the roof bar of the Pasha Inn , we gazed down on the harbour .
14 Could n't we eat out of doors ?
15 We met up at Crewe station .
16 I 've been meaning to write since we met up at the PoW seminar in Swansea .
17 We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home .
18 The sequence in hand was apparently quite simple : we met up with another yacht and sailed in company , then came across a fishing boat to whose skipper I shouted , ‘ Have you any fish to spare ? ’
19 We met up with Sonia and she 's looking great but then is it any wonder ?
20 Well , on the way back — before we met up with the Space Shuttle — I dozed off .
21 Here we met up with the East Team .
22 At Lajpath Nagar we met up with two musicians , a pair of elderly men , one of whom played a harmonium , the other a pair of tabla drums .
23 Daren Fifield is our first new champ … we met up with him in training a few weeks ago … the boy was a knockout …
24 Eventually we met up below the entrance to the Kitchen .
25 I remember we met up in Grimsby , just after I got there — 'forty-four it must have been .
26 During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air .
27 The wind died and we lay out in midstream drifting with the current .
28 I was beginning to become impatient as we lay about on the sand for several hours waiting our turn to go aboard one of the tank-landing craft , after it had discharged its cargo .
29 By taking a particular line of thought , we bring out of our memory banks the shadows of past events that form an analogy with our present fear .
30 Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time .
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