Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] [conj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we rode on and emerged into open country a mist was hanging some feet above the ground , as if suspended by a conjuror . |
| 2 | When Stuart and I heard this we got up and looked for the nearest exit . |
| 3 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 4 | I might have got worn out , the number of miles we walked and bins we excavated , only he sat on every bench we came across and stared into space . |
| 5 | We drove on and saw from afar the short 11th hole , a stern test with the wind coming up . |
| 6 | It rained most of the time , and when we were kicked out of the youth hostel for the day we walked around and sat in bus shelters . |
| 7 | Anyway , we set off and drove for about forty miles . |
| 8 | Eventually we slowed down and stopped on Troutsdale Ward , a homely wing with about a dozen dear old ladies variously ambling around , or dozing in armchairs . |
| 9 | The lights went on ; we leapt up and pounced on them , adding our howls of ingrate triumph to the general confusion — ending the happy myth not with a whimper but a bang , while Addy , the fellow-conspirator , leant against the wall and laughed herself to helplessness … |
| 10 | Just before we packed up and got aboard the truck , I piped up and down the beach for a few moments . |
| 11 | All the rooms downstairs were empty , so we went upstairs and looked in all the rooms except one , which was locked . |
| 12 | When the rain stopped , we went up and walked on the roofs . |
| 13 | Then we went home and waited for her return . |
| 14 | We went in and looked from room to room . |
| 15 | We went out and stood in the bailey , taking advantage of the bothies and the huddled tenements built against the castle wall which provided shadows deep enough to hide Satan 's Army . |
| 16 | We smiled feebly and refrained from attempting any further communication with these introspective folk . |
| 17 | And the night that it was over we met in our quarters , we poured a drink and we stood there and looked at each other and he said well , we made it . |
| 18 | I caught a bit of it on and we sat down and went to sleep . |
| 19 | We sat down and spoke about things that had happened . |
| 20 | ‘ Afterwards we sat down and talked about it and it was as if we were talking about someone else . |
| 21 | It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous . |
| 22 | We sat down and talked for a while before setting off towards Hawes , as the sun broke through the clouds and the dog pulled him downhill towards the cairns . |
| 23 | ‘ Obviously if all five of us went out and walked past a school at home time , we 'd be asking for trouble . |
| 24 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |