Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 2 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 3 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 4 | On this occasion , we got straight down to business . |
| 5 | We got out over and we had n't got twenty yards when the flares went up and it became undiluted hell |
| 6 | ‘ Rosa , ’ he said as we got out on to the pavement . |
| 7 | I hoped he remembered to pull his cuff down over it when we got out on to the street . |
| 8 | just when we got back off holiday we 'd got a letter from |
| 9 | We got there round about the half past nine . |
| 10 | Then after they crossed the Rhine , we moved away up to the north Holland about . |
| 11 | We moved on up to her tumbledown tower on the last crag of the village . |
| 12 | We moved quickly on to what is normally the second lesson , snow plough turns , and then the third when thankfully you can use the rope tow . |
| 13 | In a brief lull we moved quickly down to the river and followed it back down the valley . |
| 14 | Of course that was just stage one , when we moved gently up into position at the Valve . |
| 15 | Cos we moved in in about nineteen I think we moved in in nineteen eighty nineteen eighty , nineteen eighty one we moved in . |
| 16 | By jeep and lorry we moved swiftly up through the towns and cities of middle Europe . |
| 17 | When it ended we moved out on to the palace balcony to watch a display of fireworks , the first to be given in the country ; but after two rockets had been fired something went wrong and the rest blew up . |
| 18 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
| 19 | Anyway , we did n't have much luck in the hollow either , so we moved further up the field . |
| 20 | But just to consider one or two aspects which we mentioned earlier on as being important to us . |
| 21 | One could go on and pick many other scriptures , you know in the erm the New Testament not only were there those three questions that we mentioned earlier on about salvation , but there are three unanswered questions in the New Testament in Mark chapter eight , Jesus asked that question of which there is no answer , for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and looses his sole or what shall a man or a woman give in exchange for their soul , Jesus did n't try and answer , there is no answer to that question , then again in , in Hebrews chapter three , er chapter two and verse three there is an unanswered question , how shall we escape if we neglect so greater salvation , and finally one other the apostle Peter , he asked the question in , in chapter fo , first apostle in chapter four and verse seven seventeen for it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God and if judgment begins with us first , what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God |
| 22 | FREEZING snow whipped our faces as we peered nervously down the slope . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it 's time we ventured out on to some grass and a semblance of the real thing , ’ Biddy remarked , fastening her crash-helmet . |
| 24 | The sea was calm , and Oban , caught in the clear light of a summer morning , looked charming and toylike , as we sailed sedately out between the islets and castle crowned rocks , with sea-birds drifting in our wake , and everywhere , even over the smell of salt and wind , the scents of summer . |
| 25 | We dropped down in to the trench and Tony produced a couple of tins of Compo rations . |
| 26 | After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club . |
| 27 | We came straight back to Hollywood . ’ |
| 28 | Remember all the goals scored from set pieces and corners the first season we came back up ? |
| 29 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 30 | David Sollom , owner of the centre and one of the three instructors of the day , was enthusiastic about the conditions so we drove straight out to one of the four sites which the school uses . |