Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 2 | Somehow we got ashore and into the stockade , but we knew there was going to be a fight . ’ |
| 3 | Sandra explains : ‘ We moved here because of the rural location and we love walking in the Welsh mountains . |
| 4 | So we sauntered home and by the time just when we got home perhaps by you know we 'd get home at nine , by quarter past nine er we saw the Zeppelin come over . |
| 5 | Until we drove up and over the Atlas , I had not thought for years about our time in London . |
| 6 | We raced round and up the track , blocking the estate car . |
| 7 | The door was open , and as there was no reply to our knocking , we walked in and along the corridor which I knew led to the main living quarters . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , well … we went over that at the time , did n't we ? ’ |
| 9 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 10 | and we went in and like the vicar greets you at the door do n't he and she was like up to the vicar like , you know , she 's more fucking heavier than thou |
| 11 | So we edged forward and in the middle of the archway and there was about that much and it would n't go . |
| 12 | you perhaps have n't got the same degree of landlord exploitation , you might , I think one might argue from , from what we said earlier that in the north you 've got a s a slightly more paternalistic landlord , it 's , it , there 's less , less absentee landlordism landlords were more likely to have been behaving within the confines of moral economy would n't , would n't have been tt erm reducing rents , it was done on a much more , more personal sort of scale . |
| 13 | First of all I think we have worked out the importance of establishing a very good relationship with the media and that 's developing and that means that , that the views of the trade union movement are beginning to be heard , er , when we , when we spoke to the editor of the local paper for example , we pointed out that on the business page there 's nothing about trade unions and did he think that business er existed without er on , just on one side . |
| 14 | In Chapter 1 , we defined inflation as a persistent rise in the average level of prices and we pointed out that in the UK the rate of inflation is normally measured as the annual percentage increase in the Retail Price Index . |