Example sentences of "we [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We fought at close range , not more than twenty steps apart , and drove the soldiers back upon their main lines , leaving their dead in our hands . |
| 2 | We camped at Blind Tarn close to the Coniston fells in the Lakes . |
| 3 | We landed at overgrown grass airstrips ( Torrijos at the controls ) and were soon surrounded by ragged children and earnest villagers . |
| 4 | In practice we proceeded at absolute snail 's pace , and every step that we took was hindered by constant misunderstanding , suspicion and argument . |
| 5 | Well it , if they 're , if they 're pointed going to come , if we 're going to come a full member of the Common Mark it 's no laughing , we laughed , we laughed at bloody Hitler did n't we ? |
| 6 | As we saw at Old Trafford , there were quite a number who learned less than nothing and Smith was at the forefront of this group . |
| 7 | It was a it was a little Italian restaurant with about forty six and we went at regional conference and it was astounding ! |
| 8 | We looked at European history and traced the effects which the growth of specialised institutions of government and administration have had on women 's potential for political influence . |
| 9 | In research for the advertising campaign — where we carried out in-depth , face-to-face interviews with senior representatives of 50 existing and potential customers — we looked at existing attitudes and probed them on what it would take to persuade them to come to us to answer their problems . |
| 10 | So a modern sexual dimorphism is explicable in terms of erm inter-male er conflict and it may be in the case of human beings er most of them are , for example the larger body weight of males that we saw when we looked at sexual dimorphism in human beings is probably explicable erm in terms of inter-male conflict like it is in chimpanzees . |
| 11 | First we looked at basic rights of people with dementia and produced the following statement : " It should be the right of any confused or dementing elderly person requiring care as a consequence of their mental state to be provided with the form of care most appropriate to their needs . |
| 12 | In the last two issues , we looked at single bed slip and tuck stitches and their ability to form surface texture , or interest , in our knitted fabric . |
| 13 | ‘ We looked at different ways of involving people in decision-making and commissioned the play . ’ |
| 14 | At Dunollie Point , where the bottom and the life varies considerably , we looked at natural navigation using the bottom , the current , the life , and at how you could use kick cycles , and time , to determine distance covered . |
| 15 | Sunday morning we preached at different churches and flew back to London over Sunday night , to bounce cheerily into the office on Monday morning . |
| 16 | Erm , I met Mr for the first time in the airport lounge at , erm er , er , Kennedy Airport erm , we discussed at great length and had a very interesting discussion erm , er , Pearsons erm , he accepted er , the job and h I , he has no obligation to me whatsoever and he is one of the er , members of the er , remuneration committee , and I actually take offence at what you 're saying . |
| 17 | ‘ We congregated at certain bookshops and talked a lot about books . |
| 18 | Shaken , we stood at opposite sides of the room , in separate silences . |
| 19 | We stood at opposite sides of the room and scored points when one of us failed to keep the ball moving after the permitted single bounce . |
| 20 | We sat at long desks which held five pupils . |