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Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But even then we divided up the list and had at least an aisle between us .
2	This quotes order/office : Chris Lloyd , to whom we made out the cheque accompanying our order .
3	‘ It was n't until we noticed the absence of female customers , the dim red lights , and the photos of naked women on the walls that we realised why the ‘ barmaids ’ were laughing at us . ’
4	When we arrived we sought out the ‘ dug out ’ .
5	As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave .
6	We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell .
7	As we steamed down the Sound of Mull one fine afternoon , my No. 1 , Dave Scadding , who was a keen fisherman , noticed a flock of gulls screaming on the water ahead .
8	We got up the top there .
9	We got just the opposite at the 11th , where we dropped a shot and went back to 10 under .
10	We got out the ‘ spy in the sky ’ .
11	We got out the 300mm-long lens .
12	Yeah , I 'd say , remember when we got out the car I said , I can hear that , dee da , dee da 's !
13	Well Les says er when we got out the car and you went he says bloody hell that uses some juice do n't it ?
14	When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City .
15	When we got there the chucker-out told us to go in quickly because the film had started .
16	When we got there the cranes had already left but the marsh still resounded with the calls of waders , most of them now looking after young .
17	Carefully we laid out the tow lines and attached our snow hooks , Tony to one roadside fence post , me to another , Nathan to the bumper of Odd-Knut 's car .
18	We checked out the site a week beforehand .
19	I ran off round to Marie 's and we shared out the Cadbury 's bar and then we went and played ball against Julie 's house .
20	Which means — since I did n't know about all that when we drew up the contract — there will be a surcharge . ’
21	‘ We drew out the Livesey file , this afternoon , ’ Bragg said in a neutral voice .
22	Telling him that our plans include both National and London Flirting Days , we described how the following Monday our group of sympathisers would be distributing badges bearing the slogan ‘ I Flirt , Therefore I Am ’ at 20 London tube stations .
23	As we glissaded down the final snows to the hut , the summit of Mt Blanc was burnished by the setting sun and the Flammes de Pierre were flickering , true to their name .
24	Since we moved here the asthma has got worse .
25	We mentioned earlier the paradoxes which were that for instance erm we 're looking for a low risk investment or our customers are looking for a low risk investment , they tell us they need well proven technology but that needs to be advanced technology .
26	We mentioned earlier the problem of relaxing phonetic constraints without knowing the lexical context , and whether such relaxation was required .
27	This was vividly illustrated in one household we visited where the bedroom was so damp that clothes stored in the cupboard had to be removed daily and spread on a clothes-horse in front of the fire to dry out .
28	If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like .
29	In the abstract we used only the numbers from the last six weeks of each treatment period to avoid a changeover effect .
30	That report from Kim Barnes , and we invited both the Oxford Bench and the Magistrates Association to discuss the complaints from Thames Valley Police in more detail but they declined our offer .