Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] and [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
4 | Until we drove up and over the Atlas , I had not thought for years about our time in London . |
5 | We raced round and up the track , blocking the estate car . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 |
9 | So we edged forward and in the middle of the archway and there was about that much and it would n't go . |